As December edges closer, the cold snap is back in full force, we have been doing our very best to brave the elements in the Forest!

What a welcome to Winter it has been this week! The past seven days have taken us from sunny to frosty with a little bit of wet and windy in between and it was the perfect opportunity for our Little Forest Folk-ers to feel the changes in the seasons first hand.

This week our Little Forest Folk-ers have quite literally been into, on top of, under, around and among absolutely everything! While educators have been encouraging children to use their bodies in a multitude of ways, be it small and controlled actions to make marks or huge sweeping movements in action songs, we have seen perseverance, independence and resilience in abundance and we are very proud of the little ones for getting stuck in!

What a celebratory week we have had!!

What an enchanting and constructive week we have had in Wimbledon Village! We were so pleased to welcome back familiar faces on our holiday camps, with many siblings and friends from previous holidays returning to play.

We had another week of sensory experimentation at Little Forest Folk Wimbledon Village, as we got creative with all sorts of mixtures and textures.

This week of sensory exploration was just what we all needed as we tried to make sense of the changing seasons. All week, our Little Forest Folk-ers have been activating and talking about their five senses, to broaden their understanding of the world around them, using their growing vocabulary to describe what they see, hear, touch, smell and taste.

This week the Wimbledon Village children took their explorations of emotions to the next level, following our current theme of utilising colours to express feelings.

What an emotional week we have had in the forest, thinking about our emotions and delving into our zones of regulation. 

After the heavens opened on us this week, we took the opportunity to jump in puddles! These puddles quickly became shark infested waters, and so the tables were turned with this activity, as we then did our best to avoid the puddles! Whilst our camp may have become dampened, our spirits certainly did not!