We may be outdoors and having fun but that doesn’t mean we’re not learning!
Our aim is to ensure children always get the best care and education possible and prepare them for their transition to school.
Like any Nursery, Forest Learners will follow the Early Years Foundation Curriculum and work closely with the children to ensure they are school ready. Examples of how we might do this include:
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Prime areas: Physical – climbing, jumping, running, tying knots, using different resources, Personal, social and emotional – working together, sharing resources, supporting each other, Communication and language – learning new vocab, asking new questions, listening, following instructions,
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Specific Areas: Expressing art and design – being creative, making, using different resources, Literacy – exploring marks in mud, on trees, Mathematics – counting, sorting, weighing, measuring, balancing, Understanding the world – learning about the environment, exploring, investigating.
Children love being outside in all conditions – whether it’s raining, snowy, or frosty there is still lots of fun and learning to be had as long as they are dressed appropriately. Learning outside also gives children the chance to exercise and let off steam. This time of year it definitely beats being cooped inside with lots of seasonal germs!
Some of the ways in Winter we might be learning and involving the natural environment around us include:
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measuring the length of Icicles and counting how many you can see
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experiencing frosted grass and thinking about why the ground might freeze and then melt
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scientific experiments to change the colour of puddles
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Looking for animals tracks in the ground and making bird feeders to help wildlife during the cold snap.
The list is endless …….