“The Jolly Postman” story is a classic and the children were thrilled to learn about his postal route as he cycled around delivering mail to a variety of fairytale characters.

With a sharp dip in the temperature this week we have bundled up with more layers, including hats, gloves and snoods. We enjoyed running games and dancing in the first snowfall of winter. My goodness they were huge snow flakes!

What glorious autumn weather we have had this week. We have loved our potion and medicine creation in the mud kitchen, the reading corners with books about numbers, weights and measures have been really popular and our role playing has been rich.

This week started with a bang as we have been learning about fireworks and painting beautiful pictures in various ways, such as splattering paint onto a large canvas, as well as using carefully snipped loo roll tubes dipped into paint as stamps to create the explosive image of the firework.

We set ourselves the task of carving a small pumpkin each day. Learning about where they grow and how they grow.

Our week has been very creative, slightly spooky, autumnal and sensory based as we have crunched the autumn leaves between our hands and fingers and sprinkled them into witchy potions in the mud kitchen.

This week we have continued to explore the concept of families. Who do we live with? Mummies, daddies, siblings, grandparents

This week we have been learning about families, our own small network including mummy, daddy, brothers, sisters, granny and grandpa. We have also printed all the painty hand prints of our Twickenham Little Forest Folk Family.  We’ve read and talked about families throughout the world, and considered families in China celebrating the Mid Autumn/Moon festival.

We have had a glorious week of exploring the forest through our senses and extending our vocabulary. Sticky, orange, ooblek with its combined dribblyness and stiff qualities, perplexed and excited our curious minds. We also enjoyed tweezer work with natural elements like smooth conkers, rough pine cones, small, hard, ash keys, small greenish acorns and soft feathery grasses.

This week the children have delighted in creating puppet shows, making up their own stories as well as retelling favourite stories.

Our new children are feeling more settled and exploring more areas of the forest too now! 

This week we have embraced the sun, shade and all the joyous activities in the forest. The new children are all settling in, observing, continuing to explore more areas of the forest and tasting new meals. 

September has arrived, bringing with it the first golden hints of autumn. As the leaves begin to change colour, we’ve said fond farewells to many of our older children, sending them off with hugs and promises to see them again at our Holiday Camps.

At the start of our week we celebrated international dog day with a vet role playing area as the children looked after and cared for all the (toy) dogs we had in the forest.

What a great week we have had! Little Forest Folk Twickenham had their 6th birthday. We made a fabulous birthday banner and we enjoyed a delicious cake to celebrate.

What a great week we have had. The most exciting event for both the children and the educators was the visit from the tree surgeon who came to inspect our beautiful plane tree. The children sat and watched from a safe space while Charlie the tree surgeon used a moving rope system and safety harness to climb up into the tree with his chain saw, which was very exciting

What a fabulous week we have had. With the start of the summer holidays we have had many of our children heading off on family vacations and holiday campers, between the ages of 3-7 years old, joining us for the week. New friends and old acquaintances have returned to see us in our leafy green space. 

We have had a marvellous week of construction and building as the children have created obstacle courses from crates, planks and tyres

Our caterpillars have grown from being tiny, 3mm long, to rather large, chubby, 5cm long caterpillars in a week.

What a fabulous week we have had as we’ve explored the forest. Our theme this week has been farms, where our food comes from and ‘understanding the world around us’.