What wonderfully splendid weather we had in the forest this week! The sun and a lovely blue sky joined us each day while we had a memorable role play time Understanding the World through hands-on experiences. We explored different occupations, and the children have truly thrown themselves into every role with curiosity, teamwork and lots of imagination. From digging up dinosaurs to solving mysteries and serving up pizzas or making coffees our camp has been as busy as the beekeepers in Spring! ☀️✨🌈🐝
We began our week as paleontologists, heading off on a dinosaur expedition to uncover ancient treasures. Using small brushes, our little experts carefully revealed fossils and dinosaur skeletons beneath the sand. They practised focus and concentration skills, compared bones and looked through a non-fiction palaeontology book, just like real scientists. Of course, even the best paleontologists need a break, so luckily our expedition camp had a very important service available… the coffee truck! 🦖🦕🦴🖌️
Our wonderful little baristas kept the expedition team fully refreshed with ‘tea’ and ‘coffee’ served in recycled paper cups. While some of the older children practised writing their customers’ initials or names on their paper cups, the younger ones enjoyed mark making by ticking the boxes with all the important information the baristas needed to know. And to make our role play even more realistic we paid a special visit to the Café at Fulham Palace, where we met the barista team and ordered some delicious babycinos!
Also this week our children returned as the Little Forest Patrol, ready for a very serious mission: finding the thief who had stolen our bags on camp! Their communication and investigation skills were brilliant as they worked together like true detectives. According to our map of camp (linked to our map-making project this term), the thief had been spotted in all sorts of places where people work. From the empty prison under the tree, to the library full of books, the fire station, the toilets, the stage and the Mud Café or even the Dinosaur Museum, our crew interrogated every educator who pretended to have a different role. Each educator gave them a job-related riddle which took them to another one until they solved the mystery. They arrested Georgia who was pretending to be the baddie with a stripy top in disguise! 🚨🚓👮♀️👮
We couldn’t forget our hospital corner and busy healthcare centre, where our little doctors, nurses, dentists and vets had a look at lots of themed non-fiction books. They also explored medical equipment such as stethoscopes, oxygen masks, thermometers, blood pressure monitors and even x-rays. We read books to learn more about how our body works and they loved the books about caring for dogs and cats. Some of the children who have pets at home also shared all about how they take care of them. 🥼🩻🩺🐕🐈
To finish off the week, our children became expert pizzaiolos, making different types of pizza out of clay. They weighed the dough-clay on scales, rolled it carefully, shaped the crust and added toppings like pepperoni or olives before popping them into the ‘oven’. Bellisimo! They also practised number recognition by identifying table numbers in our Mud Pizzeria. And before we heard out loud ‘One Margherita pizza and two cappuccinos for table number 4!’, we could already smell the nice aroma of delicious home-made pizza. 🍕🧑🍳🌈
Have a lovely bank holiday mini break and we’ll see you in our super fun forest with more new adventures next week!✨🌿
Little Forest Folk
Fulham