This week we have been focusing on music and rhyme each day and we also stayed and played!
On Monday we sang ‘Incey Wincey Spider’. The children were playing with the waterspouts and pipes, figuring out how they could balance them, so the water could run down. On the craft table the children made their own spider web using sticks, clay and colourful string. Of course, it wouldn't be forest nursery without taking part in bug hunts with magnifying glasses and insect ID sheets.
On Tuesday we sang the ‘Once I Caught A Fish Alive’ nursery rhyme. The book area was transformed into what seemed like under the sea with blue wavy paper floating in the wind and all the related books to enjoy in our water bubble. Then on the craft table our little artists were drawing fish onto cardboard and then cutting it out and wrapping the fish in foil paper.
On Wednesday we sang ‘The Owl and the Pussycat’ and the loose parts play area was turned into a sea! We used our old tarpaulins for the water and a large cardboard cut-out for the boat. The children then took the role of owl and cat sailing on the sea. We also brought our scientific sides into play during a float experiment in another part of the forest.
On Thursday we sang ‘Hickory Dickory Dock, the Mouse ran up the Clock’. In the forest there was a life size hand-made clock! The children enjoyed learning from the educators’ explanation of how clocks work and (with help) adjusting the hour and minute hand to the exact real-time. On the craft table there were children making their own mice by using a triangle for the face, two big circles for the ears and tiny circles for the nose.
On Friday we have been focusing on ‘Baa, Baa Black Sheep’ (the long version), we have been making our own sheep on the craft table and also some toy bees that we are saving to take to the flowers. As well as this, we have been sorting out all of the different coloured eggs for the nursery rhyme’s hen, and we visited a ‘shop’ which sold all of the things you can make out of milk for the cow, from this section of the nursery rhyme too.
Looking forward to seeing you all next week after a restful long weekend!
Little Forest Folk
Twickenham