Following the announcement of our Queen’s award in April, we are delighted to share an article written about Little Forest Folk by a journalist who visited us in May.
We’ve been bursting with excitement and now that it’s the Queen’s birthday and the official announcement day, we are absolutely delighted to finally share with you the news that Little Forest Folk has been given the royal seal of approval.
Following our being selected by Tatler as being one of the finest nurseries in the nation last month, we are now delighted to share with you an article written about Little Forest Folk by a journalist who visited us in our Wimbledon setting a few weeks ago.
Well, this weekend was the long awaited Nursery World Awards! It was a fabulous event and we were delighted to be recognised in such a large industry such as the early years to be one of the industry leaders.
This week in the Fulham Forest we have been focusing on our letter formation and phonic sounds. We have prepared a vast variety of activities to support this such as using the wooden letters and alphabet word cards to encourage the children to think about the sounds that each letter makes. One of the educators prepared dotted name cards for the children and they were able to practise going over the dots to connect them together and make the individual letters of their own names.
This week was made for playing, with happy times never ending in the forest amongst the children. Our week’s highlights included creating puppet shows using our child and educator constructed theatre, which was an ongoing project over the past few weeks where the children had the opportunity to practice using the forest school tools to help build it. The children led tales entertaining their peer audience, inviting audience participation using personal props. It was wonderful to see the little ones’ confidence blossom as they entered the stage.
To switch things up this week, the children headed back to their roots and ventured to Monkey Camp! A lot has changed since our Little Forest Folk-ers last played on camp, so there was a plethora of opportunities to explore. The little ones have been fascinated by the slacklines and ropes, so they created their own high ropes course. Using the ropes as their guides, they climbed and swung like the animals their very camp was named after.
What a busy week we had in the forest! This week, we turned the forest into a construction site. We helped the Three Little Pigs make a strong house to keep the Big Bad Wolf away. We worked as a team carrying our materials throughout the forest using our wheelbarrows. We used tools to dig up mud to make bricks and collected sticks to make the frame of the house.
Such a wonderful week at Wimbledon! This week we’ve taken some time to focus on the change in weather and incorporating the start of Autumn into our play. Our favourite activity has certainly been painting with some lovely autumnal colours. The children also tried painting with some natural paint made from turmeric in the week, the gorgeous bright pigment from this really helped embrace the Autumn colours of the forest!
After another fabulous week here in the Fulham forest, I am pleased to inform you all of how much fun we have had! At the beginning of the week a safari jeep was appeared on camp made from our crates and to bring it to life, all of the small world animals came out to play. The children had great fun with these, using them to not only role play but to have a sing-along to some of our favourite animal nursery rhymes too!
The first week in October started out with a bang as the children honed many new skills!
To start the week off strong, the children engaged in the most magical maths activity with their educators. They listened to a story and used props to count how many characters there were. The little ones added and subtracted the props but transformed the activity by using them to retell the story in their own words.
This week, the carnival was in town! We bought our tickets at the gate as we entered the forest and took part in many fun games. Our little explorers rushed to put their coordination to the test by taking part in a sponge toss challenge where we tried to throw sopping wet sponges towards the bullseye.
As the sun sets on another week of our second summer, we are grateful for this continuous warmth!
Water play has been aplenty, from making mud birthday cakes for one of our mini explorer’s fourth birthday, to a water hoist activity using a pulley clip to activate some paracord that is attached to a bucket of water, we attempted to reinvent our water play area to create a more physical challenge to our children.
