What a great week we’ve had here in the forest! Our learning intention for the fortnight has been introductory phonics, letter recognition and early writing - and I’m pleased to say the Little Forest Folk-ers have done marvellously and loved the exciting ways us educators have delivered this learning. Although the temperature has dropped and we’re experiencing some light showers, the energy at camp has stayed bright, exciting and full of warmth.
This week has been a particularly special one, as Little Forest Folk Fulham officially turned 7! We made sure to celebrate this with the children and set up a little party on Tuesday. We started the day with colourful party hats and a game of Pin the Tail on the Donkey. The children enjoyed having to navigate around whilst being blindfolded- this caused lots of giggles and silliness! We then got out the speaker and had a good old dance party - the children loved showing us their moves. They particularly loved playing musical statues! It was great to celebrate with the children and we’re ever so grateful to have been supporting your little ones for another year!
With the extra focus on literacy and ‘communication & language’, we filled the camp with exciting language-based resources. Our little explorers have had the opportunity each morning to spot their name from a bunch of tree cookies. This has been brilliant for letter/name recognition and has given the educators lots of opportunities to reinforce phonetic sounds whilst this activity is in progress. We have been integrating story times wherever we can, so the children are consistently experiencing an exciting variety of new stories. Our little adventurers have also been loving our literacy-based puzzles, which are helping to strengthen their letter recognition.
There are an abundance of activities which have been developing their pincer grips and overall fine motor skills, which is apparent when looking at our Little Forest Folk-ers beautiful mark marking. We have created a dot-to-dot version of each child’s name on a laminated card, so the children can begin tracing their names, familiarising themselves with the pattern and order of the letters. We have seen some fantastic attempts this week, and us educators have been blown away with their brilliant early penmanship!
We can’t wait for another week of fun!
Little Forest Folk
Fulham