Daily schedule
Our daily schedule offers time for children to participate in both group activities and independent child choice activities.
Sample Forest School Day at Preschool
8:50 a.m.
Arrival and hand washing with parent
Preschool Opens – Invitations to Play*/Free Play
9:30 a.m. – 10:00 a.m.
Opening Circle of Forest School
10:00 a.m. – 10:45 a.m.
First Group goes to Tiny Forest Adventure
Others: Forest School Activity Stations and Free Play
Rolling Lunches (eat when hungry usually with a few friends)
10:45 a.m. – 11:30 a.m.
Second Group goes to Tiny Forest Adventure
11:30 a.m. – 11:45 a.m.
Clean up together
11:45 p.m. – 12:00 p.m.
Circle activity, e.g. Story, songs, game
12:00 p.m.
The Owl spots when the parent arrives and sends each child home.
*An invitation to play is a pedagogical tool where an area is specially set up to inspire play with a particular set of learning goals in mind. It is usually based on the children’s skills and interests observed during the previous days. For example, if a child has been to the doctor, an invitation to play may be set up by providing a Doctor’s outfit, ‘sick’ teddy bear, face masks, gloves, clip chart and pens, stethoscope, thermometer, plasters and bandages.
Sample Forest School Day in Afterschool
13:10 p.m.
Junior Afterschool children are picked up from their teacher
13:20 a.m. – 14:00 p.m.
Hand washing; Get dressed in mud gear and boots
Free play or activity choices in the Seedling Garden
14:00 p.m. – 14:10 p.m.
Junior Afterschool tidy up and get changed for pickup
Others: Trip to the toilet
14:10 p.m. – 14:45 p.m.
Children from first class and older are picked up from their teacher
Older children: Handwashing; go upstairs for written homework (except Fridays)
Others: Hand washing; Get dressed in mud gear and boots
14:45 p.m. – 15:00 p.m.
Forest School begins – usually with a warm up game.
Introduction to activity stations and related safety demonstrations,
Forest School boundaries, mindfulness poem, song or story
15:00 p.m. – 16:15 p.m.
Games, activity stations, free play
Rolling lunches (eat when hungry – remember to wash hands and tidy up afterwards)
16:15 p.m. – 16:30 p.m.
Forest School tidy up and closing circle
16:30 p.m. – 17:00 p.m
Some children begin to go home, others continue their activities
17:00 p.m.
Move to sensory garden for ball games, drawing and free play
