It’s been a sunnier and drier week in the forest! We have taken advantage of all of the forest’s physical activities! The swing, climbing frame and slack line have been used as often as ever! ‘I’m so tall!’ ‘Watch me bounce!’
Putney Heath - Fantastic Fishing Fun
Twickenham - A Week Full Of Stories!
Wandsworth - Necklaces & Bracelets or Snakes & Trains
Wimbledon - Pirate Ships and Roaring Dinosaurs
Chiswick - Dancing, Running and Lots of Adventure Walks!
Fulham - Music In The Mud Kitchen
Morden - 'I See Mars, Jupiter and Saturn!'
Putney Heath - Superhero's, Train Journey's & Fishmonger's
Twickenham - Feathered Friends!
Wandsworth - Rainbow Space Worms
The melting ice revealed magnificent mud this week and rolling competitions were orchestrated by older children who showed younger ones the best spots with enough slope and space to have the best fun. A mark of success here is the amount of mud our outerwear gets covered in, and there were certainly top marks all round!
Wimbledon - The Library and The Natural History Museum
Chiswick - An Alphabet Treasure Hunt
Fulham - A Frosty Fulham Palace
So as another week closes in the Fulham forest it’s been an eventful and busy week. We started the week really focusing on number work and spent some time in the creative area practising writing our numbers. The older children even began to use the wooden numbers, creating little sums and then attempting to work them out.
Morden - Weaving with Brightly Coloured Yarn
This week in the forest has given the children brilliant opportunities to push themselves and get into their strong flow of creativity and learning! Our frosty environment creates new interesting things to look at each morning, like ice which freezes to look like interesting crystals, or perfect leaf prints from the frost! The children love to see how their environment changes and develops in all different weather conditions.
Putney Heath - Icy Adventures !
We have had a fantastic week here at Putney Heath, exploring the icy wonders of the forest. The mornings have been magical, stepping onto the fresh, icy cricket pitch and watching as the ice glistened in the sun. We have had an array of wonderful activities this week including our very own forest post office. The children had the opportunity to write and draw on their own postcards and post them through the letterbox. This engaged the children phenomenally, allowing them to explore the idea of enclosing items and finding ways to retrieve them.
Twickenham - Chinese New Year Celebrations
Wandsworth - Experimenting Around Icy Puddles
Wimbledon - Exploring in the Forest & The Farm!
It's been another wonderful week in Wimbledon! Our adventurers have done so much exploring in the forest and we’ve also been on some amazing trips. We started this week off with some great adventures outside of the forest, we visited the farm, the library and also a couple of our favourite local parks. The children enjoyed exploring these new areas around Wimbledon and finding lots of exciting things to look at.
Chiswick - A Huge Wooden Bridge!
As most of the children are now back from holiday, we’ve been sharing a lot about the memories of each other’s winter break. This experience reminded us how capable children are of telling stories about their experiences, using their growing vocabulary and great facial expressions to tell us how exciting it was 🥰