Another warm week completed in our Morden forest! ☀️

What a wonderful week we've had in the forest as we explored our new Expressive Arts and Design intent! The children have embraced every opportunity to express themselves creatively through painting, music, sensory play and imaginative experiences.

Hello everybody, we hope you’ve all been enjoying the sunshine just as much as we have! It’s been on the hot side of summer this week but nevertheless the children have come in with bright attitudes and they have definitely all earned a relaxing weekend, maybe with some ice cream!

What a wonderful week we've had filled with adventure, creativity, and lots of learning! 

What a wonderful week we've had filled with adventure, creativity, and lots of learning! 

Happy Friday everyone! We’ve made it to another month!

This week at Little Forest Folk Morden, we have been focusing on developing our little ones’ mathematical skills, particularly comparing size, weight and length.

We also brought out the hammock this week and it quickly became a favourite spot for relaxing, giggling and enjoying the sunshine beneath the trees.🌱

Our week we have been focused on our little ones' literacy development. We have had a variety of fabulous activities which our adventurers have done an amazing job with. 

Through a range of fun and engaging mark making activities, we practiced our writing which supported the children in their fine motor skills and practicing holding our pens and pencils in a tripod grip!

This week at Little Forest Folk Morden, we have been focusing on our little ones physical development through a range of fun and engaging activities. Alongside many other experiences that supported both their fine and gross motor skills, one of our favourite activities was our threading station, which gave the children the opportunity to refine their fine motor skills. Using child-friendly needles, wool, and a variety of felt materials, they explored threading in a safe, engaging and creative way.

The children have been embracing a range of physical development activities, from adventurous walks that encouraged large muscle movement to practising their fine motor skills using one-handed tools such as scissors, pens and pencils.

This week has been especially exciting here at Little Forest Folk Morden. Every year around this time, we receive a special delivery of chicken eggs, and for two weeks we get to watch as the chicks peck and crack their way out into the world. It’s been a wonderful experience for our adventurers. They’ve loved watching the chicks cuddle together to keep warm and seeing their feathers grow soft and fluffy. Even more special has been the opportunity to gently handle them, showing such care and using their “kind and gentle hands” when giving them cuddles. 🐣

This week’s focus has been expressive art and design, which has sparked lots of creativity and excitement in the forest at Little Forest Folk Morden. We kicked things off with large scale self-portraits. The children saw their photos taped onto big sheets of paper and were invited to draw the rest of their bodies. It was wonderful to see the colours they chose to represent themselves and how uniquely each child approached the activity. 🌈After all that adventure everyone cooled down with some waterplay under the hose and ran and splashed under misty rainbows together. 

This week of holiday camp has been so fun! Everyone was buzzing with excitement after their Easter Holiday weekend and we kicked the week off with adventure walks up to Cannon Hill Common where we played parachute games, smelled tulips and visited 5 new little ducklings in the pond! After all that adventure everyone cooled down with some waterplay under the hose and ran and splashed under misty rainbows together. 

We made our own paper flowers, carefully folded their petals and then placed them in water to watch them slowly open up like real blossoms 🌸 It was such a magical moment! During this, we also learned about photosynthesis and even picked up a new song: “If you want to know how a plant grows, it takes water, air and sunlight!” 🎶

Understanding the World, with an emphasis on exploring and responding to natural phenomena. It’s been the perfect opportunity to dive right into planting! Over the past few weeks, our little adventurers have loved this activity and were thrilled to get involved again. Our little ones carefully planted peas, beans, nasturtiums and pansies, brightening up our veggie garden in the process. 🐞

This week at Little Forest Folk Morden, we started our next focus: Understanding the World, with an emphasis on exploring and responding to natural phenomena. It’s been the perfect opportunity to dive right into planting! Over the past few weeks, our little adventurers have loved this activity and were thrilled to get involved again. Our little ones carefully planted peas, beans, nasturtiums and pansies, brightening up our veggie garden in the process. 🐞

Our busy week in the Morden forest saw some more spring preparation! 🦋 Our Little Forest Folk-ers have been hard at work planting some seeds and bulbs ready to let our wild flowers grow all over our favourite play space.

Our intent for the fortnight is maths and we have been including this in our set-ups and activities in the most fun ways possible. 🌸

Tuesday being World Wildlife day, we had a Safari Jeep with maps of Africa and our very own forest passports to travel with!