We hope you have something exciting planned ahead for this spooky weekend, as we have certainly slipped into the Halloween spirit this week!
There was a dress up station that ended up being incredibly popular amongst the children. It resulted in having lots of superheroes, ballerinas, tigers and all sorts of wild and terrifying creatures in the forest. With so many new characters, it was only a matter of time before we dived deep into the make-believe world. We had so many fascinating and thrilling stories and characters, our afternoons seemed to have been taken up entirely by our imaginations. This not only helped us develop our language, but it also sparked interest in expressing ourselves and telling stories. The activity was then developed by some of our Little Forest Folk-ers who created a puppet show with the leaves being the puppets. The children designed the theatre and the characters themselves and performed to the amusement of their friends.
For our physical development we had plenty to choose from too. Climbing ladders and zipwires were amongst our favourite ones. Victoria made us a pulley system that helped us carry objects from one side of the camp to the other, which was a great lesson about gravity and motion but also made us run up and down the forest keeping our cheeks rosy and our legs busy. We were very occupied with building dens too which engaged our gross-motor skills with all that log-lifting, rope-tying and tarpaulin-arrangement. The end product of our building was spectacular as we had a cosy place to hide in and the educators have tested it to make sure it was fully waterproof.
We have started noticing more mushrooms that have been emerging in the forest and we are careful when walking to our camp not to tread on them and to stop animals from getting their food in the colder weather. Seeing so many mushrooms around us inspired us to walk around the camp and carefully count all the different types we could spot. We found some tall ones and some wide ones, some very little ones and some interesting-looking ones too. We have recited all the forest school rules together with the emphasis on ‘no licking and no picking’ rule that you probably have heard a few times from our little ones. We all agreed that it would be very unkind to take away the mushrooms as a lot of the animals depend on them for food so it was decided that we would admire the mushrooms from afar and observe how they change every day!
We have had such a wonderful half-term and hope you have too. See you all next week and have a lovely weekend!
Little Forest Folk
Chiswick