On Monday the long-awaited day finally arrived. After months of the children looking and waving to each other, we came back together as one big group.
Wimbledon - bees buzzing from flower to flower
When you walk into our forest site at Wimbledon you are overwhelmed by the yellow buttercups that cover the meadow, the fresh grass that is growing everywhere and the bees buzzing from flower to flower. It is a hive of activity at this time of year and watching our children enjoy it every day is such a joy!
Chiswick - Clay creations, ramp physics & old friends!
Fulham - Adventure camp and Painting galore!
We’ve had an amazing week in the forest. The fabulous sunshine and the warmer temperature gave us the perfect opportunity to bring back summer clothes and super cool hats! This week, our children welcomed our holiday campers with kindness, inviting them into their play and sharing different experiences with them.
Morden - Enjoying the heatwave!
Putney Heath - Caterpillar Chaos
Twickenham - Jetting off around the world
Wandsworth - baby toads
Wimbledon - Yellow buzzing bees
Chiswick - changing seasons
Fulham - delicious cakes and magic potions!
Morden - Art, Music, and Gloop!
Putney Heath - `Reunited Friends`
Twickenham - robot factory
This week the children have all been very creative in their constructions. We’ve had some very elaborate and wonderful places made within our forest including our very own Forest School train station. The children laid out planks of wood parallel to each other to create a train track and put sticks in between to create the sleepers that join the tracks together.
Wandsworth - getting our thinking caps on
Wimbledon - Slugs, snails and caterpillar trails
Chiswick - Thunder and lightning
Fulham - superhero capes
What an incredible week we’ve had in the forest! The children have been so excited with a couple of ducks that have been wondering around the Palace. They have walked so quietly, whispering to each other, whilst pointing at the ducks, talking to them and have watched so patiently whilst they drank water which was stored in the grass with their beaks.
Morden - Morden’s Forest Potions!
Morden has been full of creative play, and care for our plant life this week! The children have been taking lots of opportunities to work on our growing boxes at the front of the site. We’ve been enjoying looking at what all the different seeds look like and finding words to compare them, “These seeds are smaller than these ones!” and “Sunflower seeds are stripey like a zebra!”.
Putney Heath - Perfect Puddles
We ended last week focussed on an activity that highlighted the importance of talking about feelings to support mental health awareness week. The educators produced some brilliant, laminated cards which had different facial expressions on, and the children all had a turn creating a face which best showed how they were feeling. It was so lovely to see so many happy and smiley faces being made.