This week, our focus has been on literacy, particularly noticing print and developing an understanding of the five key concepts of it.

Our focus this week has been “Understanding the World,” and we’ve embraced it with curiosity & enthusiasm. With the first gentle signs of spring beginning to emerge in our forest it felt like the perfect moment to plant our very first seedlings; sweet peas. Using recycled toilet roll holders, our careful and capable adventurers thoughtfully planted each seed. 🌼

This week, we’ve continued focusing on our adventures in physical development. One exciting activity that kept everyone busy was filling a gardening tub with sticks collected from around the forest. Once the tub was full, the children pulled on a rope to hoist it up to the trees above them.

This week, we introduced a new focus for our fortnightly goal: physical development. This has been a fantastic opportunity to tailor activities around what our adventurers love most, using the forest environment to support and strengthen their fine and gross motor skills. ⭐️

This week has been packed with fun, laughter and lots of learning. Continuing from last week, our focus was Personal, Social and Emotional Development and our adventurers got to explore a whole new set of exciting role-play areas and activities designed to nurture these skills. ⭐️

Hello everyone, and happy Friday! We’ve zoomed, skipped, and adventured our way through another wonderful week here at Little Forest Folk Morden.

Hello & happy Friday everyone! This week at Little Forest Folk Morden has been a fully packed adventure, bursting with fun, laughter and exciting discoveries.

The children played together with drums, shakers and xylophones, introducing our instruments through the beginning of the week in our circle times and at the end of the week we tried forming a little band.

We've had a brilliant time in our last full week before Christmas! Our Morden Little Forest Folk-ers had a lovely time decorating pinecones for Christmas. Using pompoms and pipe cleaners, they turned natural treasures into colourful decorations. It was a simple, happy activity that combined creativity, fine motor skills and loads of communicative language while they played. 

Christmas Crafting has been non-stop in the forest! With our Expressive Arts and Design intent for this week we've been super creative exploring colours, textures and shapes through all of our play!  🎄

The festive spirit has definitely arrived at Morden this week. We’ve taken our focus of the week and added a touch of Christmas wherever we could 🎄

This week, with a focus on “understanding the world,” we’ve had the wonderful opportunity to learn about each other’s cultures and differences. It’s been amazing to see how this has helped everyone connect, appreciate the diversity around them and recognise both our similarities and unique qualities. ⭐️

It’s been another wonderful week here in Morden. We’ve all been adjusting to the colder temperatures and our little adventurers have shown that you can have just as much fun bundled up as you can in the sunshine!

Although there was a definite chill in the air and a few rainy days, our adventurers couldn’t have been happier! They embraced the weather with enthusiasm, splashing through muddy puddles and running joyfully in the rain. ✨

During our adventure walks, our explorers gathered an abundance of leaves in all different sizes, shapes and colours. Back in the forest, they used their collections to form patterns and design their very own caterpillars. It was amazing to watch the unique sequences they each created! ✨

Happy Friday everyone! We hope you’ve all had a wonderful week. At Little Forest Folk Morden, our focus has been on developing mathematical skills and exploring how our little ones can create patterns through play! ✨

During our adventure walks, our explorers gathered an abundance of leaves in all different sizes, shapes and colours. Back in the forest, they used their collections to form patterns and design their very own caterpillars. It was amazing to watch the unique sequences they each created! ✨

This week we have had an absolute blast and we certainly have not let the rain or changing weather stop our fun! We started the week with loads of pretend play. We built our own PAW patroller car for the children to play on and they loved pretending to be their favoured pups - it has been wonderful seeing how Halloween has inspired their play and their imaginations! 

We’ve also been enjoying reading some much beloved stories such as Dear Zoo and Hairy McClary which the children can repeat phrases back from altogether, learning rhymes as they go! Our educators have also brought in their favourite stories and these have inspired some amazing games of chase where everyone turned into a Spider-Man!

We’ve reached the end of another wonderful week here at Little Forest Folk Morden! Our ears have been filled with beautiful stories and poems, while our hands have been busy mark making. ✨

Autumn is in full swing here in the forest and the brilliant activities we've been enjoying has reflected this in the beautiful colours and natural materials we've been using! 

This week in the forest our intent has been physical development! We have been running and jumping through the forest and beyond! We’ve also been spending a bunch of time getting creative and learning about the colours in nature!