Our Week in the Forest

Even though it’s been a shorter week we’ve fit in so much fun you would never know! First and most exciting we welcomed Charlie back after her visit home. Our forest friends were very excited to see her! 🥳

We’ve been based at Parakeet Camp for the week after the Chiswick House gardeners told us about a honeybee nest that was located in a fallen tree near Stump Camp. While the beekeepers come in to move the honeybee nest to a safer location, we have been hanging out by the river. 🐝 This has been loads of fun because we’ve been able to go on quick walks down to the river most days this week!

So far on our walks, we’ve spotted a coot nest with spotty eggs, moorhens swimming with their funny chicken feet, and lots of mallard ducks. We talked about how we can tell the difference between the male and female ducks because they’re different colours. We especially loved the shiny green on the males’ heads. We were very lucky to spot some Canada Geese and six goslings! It was very funny because they looked like they had green hairstyles! 😂 It was very exciting on Thursday when a swan started to chase the geese down the river, back and forth and back and forth, honking the entire time. What a noisy hullabaloo! 🦢🦆

We’ve been looking at numbers in different forms with lots of counting, identifying digits, and matching physical objects. The children helped create number fabric sheets by tearing fabric and writing digits on them. Then they found the correct number of items and placed them on the matching sheet. We also used puzzles that matched picture representations with the digits of each number. By the end of the week we were showing the adults groups of objects and telling them how many we had!

After so much fun this week we can’t wait to see what the next one brings! 🤩🌳

Little Forest Folk
Chiswick