“It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas!” (Well it’s starting to feel that way anyway!)
We have been singing some of our favourite Christmas songs with the children this week and have been talking about the evidence of the Christmas season that we have seen around us outside of nursery. Some children mentioned the lights in the streets and shop windows while others talked about all the decorations on the houses around where they live. Some of us have decorated our houses and flats already and have the Christmas tree up while others are going to be getting theirs at the weekend.
We have brought some Christmas and winter themed books to the forest for the children to enjoy and some of the children acted out the story of choosing a Christmas tree, making decorations and hanging them on the tree as we read the story together.
We brought the musical instruments into the forest and it has been fantastic to see the younger children investigating new movements and sounds while their older friends formed a band straight away! The drums were banging, the bells were shaken and the xylophone accompanied it all to make a wonderful cacophony of noise. Jingle bells was a popular song to strike up as they shook the bells with each other and its always so nice to see the eye contact and laughter and smiles being shared as music brings them together.
We have been scribing stories again for the children with our Helicopter Story activity and some of the imaginative storylines that unfold are both funny and exciting. At the end of the day we gather the children together around a stage area and they are given the opportunity to act out a part as each story is read out to the group. Our full day children even requested that we extend the acting part into their time back at the tennis club where they could stretch their acting muscles even more!
Thursday brought buckets and buckets of rain and we had so much fun jumping into enormous puddles, running through them to make waves and practicing jumping together “ready, steady go!” SPLASH!! After lunch we filled our gloves with hand warmers and set off to adventure walk around the walled garden where we played running and chasing games to fill up our waterproofs with heat and went searching in the nooks and crannies of the apple trees to see if there were any hibernating bugs to find.
We have lots of Christmas themed activities organised for next week and we are greatly looking forward to our parent’s meetings, for which you will receive your zoom link via Famly soon.
Fingers crossed for some snow everybody!
Little Forest Folk
Fulham