This week our Little Forest Folk-ers embraced the nature around them, faced wild weather and explored possible future careers.
We started off this week with our Little Forest Folk-ers showcasing their amazing pattern recognition skills as they identified different shapes and colours. The children enjoyed exploring different shapes and counting the number of sides on them. As they got better their confidence grew, leading to ear to ear smiles by the end of the activity.
By mid-week we saw the Little Forest Musicians making their very own musical instruments, for sensory engagement, out of cups and pinecones. Leading them to create the Little Forest Folk Musical Ensemble as they worked together to make beautiful symphonies.
The windy weather gave the children an opportunity to practice the evacuation process, leading them to be more confident for future evacuations. This also led them to learn about wind currents and how they can move objects, from the delicate bubbles that we blew to wiggly branches that can fall off trees.
The children enjoyed expressing their creativity through different art forms this week, embracing their creativity by painting triangle shaped cones and circle scoops of ice cream on cardboard pieces. Later in the week, they also used their hands and creativity to mould ice lollies out of clay.
The Little Forest Folk-ers grew closer to nature as they made miniature bug hotels out of mud and twigs with roads and chimneys to create the most comfortable house for bugs, showing their growing compassion for their creepy crawly friends in the forest.
The children had an opportunity to improve on their balance and movement this week. Starting off with a simple slack line at the start of the week to a complex spider web of rope by the end of the week. Our little explorers learned how to navigate around ropes, through hula hoops, jumping off logs and climbing trees. This allowed them to grow more confident as the obstacles got harder throughout the week. By the end of the week they were able to complete the whole obstacle course with little to no help.
Towards the end of the week the children took on exciting careers as construction workers, police officers, doctors, firefighters and adventurers. We saw little firefighters working hard all week to put out fires around the camp, with cooperation between the groups of adventurers and police working together to find lost artefacts.
It has been an eventful week with laughter, entertainment and learning. We are so proud of the children for expressing their creativity and curiosity whilst embracing their environment.
Little Forest Folk
Chiswick