Our Week in the Forest
Welcome to our forest and our week of communication and language. This week the children have delighted in creating puppet shows, making up their own stories as well as retelling favourite stories. The vocabulary growth, team work and physical development of operating each puppet, creating story lines, using funny voices etc has been a week long activity of pure concentration, fun and joy.
In another area of the forest the children have enjoyed interacting with the cool, soft sand and the small world animals. The giraffe laid down and had a sleep on the sand and then an alarm clock woke him up and he had to make tea for the two goats who were off to find the troll and their younger brother hiding under a bridge. The tigers (there were 2) were hunting and prowling across the desert looking for a pond or a river as they were thirsty. A little water was then added to our tuff tray of sand and now we had a beach instead of a desert and the language revolved around the wet, cold, hard sand with crabs, starfish, beach umbrellas and suntan lotion.
Our Little Forest Folk-ers have enjoyed building with our wooden blocks, our large Duplo blocks and on a larger scale intricate, challenging, long obstacle courses which have been built with crates, planks and tyres. “This is a train station, we’re off to Waterloo then we’ll catch a jubilee line train.” “This is a rocket, we’re flying to space, be careful we don’t bump into any planets”, “balance carefully, don’t fall off into the sea”...
Our mud kitchen was all about interpreting visual recipes. We created friendship potions, freezing potions and invisibility potions all needing different amounts of sticks, stones, conkers, pebbles, drops of water and flower petals. Stirring and sprinkling and working with friends to manufacture the best potions in the world.
Our creatively artistic children enjoyed painting with variously sized brushes, sticking with glue, tape, drawing with pens, pencils and cutting - we used large autumn leaves to create faces and then small scissors to cut the edges of the leaves to create hairdos for our leaf people.
Thanks for coming to the forest see you all again next time!
Little Forest Folk
Twickenham