Hello everybody, what a lovely adventurous week we have had here at Fulham. We have travelled across the world, visiting the continents where we have discovered endangered species, talking about how their homes are being destroyed and what we can do to help them.
On Monday we visited the continent of Asia, the home of the panda. The children enjoyed learning about its natural habitat, comparing it to the bamboo that grows by our pickup point. Zainab led us in a delicious wild cooking experience which took us to India. The children built their portions of chaat complete with juicy mangos and finished with a squeeze of lemon.
On Tuesday we visited the continent of Africa where we discovered the African Elephant. The children loved getting their hands messy to print an elephant shape.
On Wednesday we visited the Antarctic where we discovered the Emperor Penguin. The children worked together to create their very own life size penguin as a team and marvelled at how tall it was as they measured themselves against it. It was bigger than every single one of them! They even stacked discs to stand on to make them taller, working out how many they needed to reach penguin height. We were very lucky to have a grandparent who had visited the Antarctic and had seen these Emperor Penguins in their natural habitat. It was lovely to hear about her experiences and the children really enjoyed looking at the pictures that she had taken, bringing their forest penguin to life!
On Thursday we visited America and in particular the Yellowstone National Park and the Rainforest where we discovered the different plants and insect their and even made some of our very own, creating our very own bugs with different characteristics and background stories!
Friday took our adventures to Australasia where we visited the Great Barrier Reef. We talked about how the effects of pollution and throwing rubbish into landfill is slowly diminishing the size of the Reef and number of species living there. Hannah built a great experiment to illustrate this point as the children added rubbish into tubs of plastic fish. They all agreed they wouldn’t want to swim there.
As a bonus through the week, we’ve been making the most of the amazing palace grounds. We have roamed all around, from the bug hotel to the adventure playground, stopping for snacks in the walled garden. The open lawns are perfect for racing around en masse and playing all together in one big group.
We hope you all have a lovely weekend!
Little Forest Folk
Fulham