Writing this newsletter feels like the end of a journey at Little Forest Folk for a lot of you, this is a sad but exciting moment as you are now all off to big school

With the forest as warm as ever we have been exploring lots of different ways to keep us cool which to the children’s delight has meant more ice lollies and water play!

Yet again a week speeds past with lots of Little Forest Folk fun!

In a week where the heat got in the way of our plans, let’s take a chance to remember how we managed to improvise new plans to keep the children and adults safe! 

This week has been yet another week of all the seasons in one day! We have used this as a great opportunity to help the children get lots of practice to get ready for school. Putting on their own puddle suits, taking them off and putting them back on again. We have also explained to the children about the importance of wearing hats and keeping out of the sun as it can make you sick, following on from this many of our Little Forest Folk-ers have also asked to walk back in the shade. 

One more week has whizzed by with lots of weather best-suited for ducks! 

This week has seen a real difference in weather from the week before, but with our rain coats and boots back on we have had so much fun in the forest! The rain has given us opportunities to explore and discover new ways to transport the water around. Using cups and gutters, our little explorers have enjoyed finding ways of emptying one puddle into another, thinking critically and using what they already understood whilst exploring what they didn’t. Using team work and communication they solved the task and seeing the water drain down hill gave everyone a great sense of pride!

looking at our caterpillars who have now formed into chrysalis and are getting ready to become butterflies. We can’t wait to see what beautiful colours they will be and we will be sure to keep you all updated!

We created a big map on the tuff tray, adding trees and all the things we find in the forest after it was drawn. We had a great time ageing it with mud leaves and tea bags.

This week we set up an airport in the forest. The children had great fun painting a huge cardboard plane and we also spent lots of time dancing to the continents song in the airport lounge. Whilst looking at all the flags on the bunting in the forest, we talked about the places we have visited and are going to visit. One of our little explorers said they are going to visit Vietnam and we all loved finding out what that flag looked like! We even made our own passports too!