Acorns: Blog items
Date: 14th Feb 2025 @ 12:27pm
Acorns have been celebrating 100 days in school with lots of maths activities this week. We have love developing our knowledge and understanding of number and geometry through a variety of activities.
We have loved listening too and counting along with songs to 100. We have been using building blocks to count and explore repeated patterns. We continued to explore repeated patterns through our art activities and 'Bucket time'.
Date: 7th Feb 2025 @ 2:39pm
Acorns have had a fantastic time exploring the art of riding balance bikes. We listened to an adult talk about wearing a helmet and all tried one on before heading outside. We all had a try holding a balance bike and as our confidence developed, tried riding one. Some of us found it a little challenging but loved exploring the large outdoor space, running and balancing on stepping stones. We all explored essential skills like balance, coordination and confidence while having lots of fun.
Date: 7th Feb 2025 @ 12:06pm
This week Acorns have been reading Lost and Found. We have enjoyed listening to the story and watching the puppets. Some of us have used the puppets to explore retelling the story.
We explored friendships from the story and linked this to RSE week. We have had lots of opportunities this week to explore friendships and kindness, developing our social skills to play with and alongside our peers, share and take turns with resources and practice waiting.
We have continued to explore artic animals with a focus on penguins. We enjoyed making a penguin using shapes in art and learnt about ovals. We developed our pencil control skills, mark making number and letters on the interactive white board and exploring oral blending during phonics.
Another busy week in Acorns.
Date: 31st Jan 2025 @ 12:15pm
This week Acorns have been exploring the celebration of Chinese/Luna New Year. We have had lots of fun exploring a variety of multi-sensory activities to develop our awareness and understanding.
Incorporating the theme through maths, mark making Chinese symbols, making lanterns in art and learning about the Great Race in our sensory story. We had fun racing the animals to see who would win.
We loved watching dragon splat during 'Bucket' time, developing our focus and attention skills. We also had a dancing dragon moving to the drums. We recreated this during PE becoming the dancing drag in and making our own beats to move too.
Acorns - Artic animals and habitats
Date: 24th Jan 2025 @ 12:55pm
This week Acorns have continued their learning about Arctic animals with a focus on polar bears. We have enjoyed listening to 'What the polar bear heard' and enjoying multisensory activities about their habitat.
We have loved engaging in the sensory tuff trays with snow and ice, especially making snow storms! We also rescued animals and numbers from frozen ice.
During art we made our own polar bears using different materials and tools. We've had a great week.
Date: 24th Jan 2025 @ 11:59am
Acorns have been developing their understanding of big and small alongside reading Goldilocks and the three bears.
We have been comparing real objects in a multisensory approach to support our learning. We enjoyed comparing the big bed and small bed, big and small spoons, and we loved looking at our small wellies and Mrs Richardson big wellies!
Date: 17th Jan 2025 @ 4:50pm
Acorns have enjoyed learning the story of Goldilocks and the theee bears this week. We have engaged for short periods of time listening to the story and taking turns with the puppets. We loved the voices of the bears and it made us giggle when Miss Richardson said " who's been sitting in my chair". We enjoyed learning the Goldilocks song and signs and dancing along to it.
In maths we have been exploring the number 3 and big and small, linking with our story.
We have been busy creating bear during arts and crafts and developing ball skills during PE.
Date: 13th Jan 2025 @ 9:31am
Welcome back and Happy New Year.
This week saw a wintery start to the term, but a great introduction to our new topic Winter Wonderland.
Acorns have enjoyed exploring the ice in our sensory tray and digging out the frozen animas. We have enjoyed reading Jack Frost and creating some play dough snowmen.
What a busy week we've had.
Date: 19th Dec 2024 @ 10:59am
Acorns have enjoyed learning about Christmas celebrations and the Nativity over the last few weeks.
Acorns have explored a variety of multisensory activities and experiences to develop their skills and understanding, including turn taking and social skills.
We have enjoyed a Christmas themed 'Bucket' to support our focus and concentration.
In art we have enjoyed recreating the Nativity scene and making Christmas ornaments to take home for our families.
We loved our singalong with our families during stay and play, and exploring signing during our singing.
A highlight was dancing during the Christmas party and a visit from Santa.
Wishing everyone a very Merry Christmas and all the best for the new year.
Acorns team.
Acorns - Christmas party and a visit from Santa
Date: 19th Dec 2024 @ 8:08am
Acorns enjoyed their Christmas party yesterday. We loved dancing and playing the freeze game. We had lots of fun playing passed the parcel.
acorns had a visit of Santa and were very inquisitive when meeting him. Everyone received a gift from Santa which they loved opening. What a wonderful we had in Acorns.
Date: 13th Dec 2024 @ 11:22am
This week Acorns have been reading the Gingerbread Man.
We have had lots of fun using the characters from the story to tell the story.
Omer - "Swim, swim"
We have enjoyed making our own collage gingerbread man and baked our own gingerbread cookies.
Acorns - Christmas Jumper Day and lunch
Date: 9th Dec 2024 @ 12:14pm
Acorns have enjoyed Christmas jumper day and lunch. We loved pulling the crackers with support and trying on the hats. Some of us wore them all lunch time.
We enjoyed colouring in some Christmas jumpers and trying on the Christmas hats. We all looked very smart.
Date: 6th Dec 2024 @ 10:21am
Acorns had a lovely morning when our families came for a stay and play session.
With lots of fun activities to engage in and a Christmas singalong to finish, we had a great morning and look forward to the next one.
Date: 29th Nov 2024 @ 11:16am
This week Acorns have been exploring habitats. We have engaged in a variety of multisensory activities to develop our curiosity and understanding.
We have enjoyed our tuff tray of different environments, singing the habitat song and looking at the different animals and where they live.
Date: 22nd Nov 2024 @ 10:56am
This week Acorns have been exploring night and day. We have enjoyed developing our understanding through songs and rhymes and visuals, exploring what we do at night and during the day. Some of us made choices about what we would like to do during the day.
Acorns - we’re going on a leaf hunt
Date: 22nd Nov 2024 @ 10:39am
This week Acorns have been reading "We're going on a leaf hunt" for our class story. Acorns went on their very own leaf hunt around our forest school area. We had lots of fun looking through our magnifying glasses, looking for different coloured leaves. We even found the Gruffalo hiding in the bushes!!
Date: 15th Nov 2024 @ 4:27pm
Acorns explore and celebrate children in need in style!
We have engaged well in our sensory Pudsey Bear tuff tray and loved creating and counting spots in art.
Acorns are developing their social skills, interacting along side others and beginning to share some resources in our group activities.
Date: 14th Nov 2024 @ 9:10pm
This week Acorns have been exploring Diwali.
We have enjoyed all the bright colours and light associated with Diwali.
Acorns explored different clothing that people wear, drawing and creating rangoli patterns and creating their very own Diva lamps. We enjoyed moulding our salt dough and making a choice of which colours to decorate them with.
Acorns - Funnybones and Fireworks
Date: 11th Nov 2024 @ 11:02am
Acorns have been reading Funnybones this week. We have enjoyed our sensory story and learning the skeleton dance, exploring how the bones make up our bodies.
Acorns also engaged in a variety of activities to explore bonfire night. We enjoyed our sensory tuff trays and painting fireworks.
Date: 11th Nov 2024 @ 10:44am
Acorns have been exploring Remembrance Day in class through video and art experiences. We planted our poppies this morning to remember those who have passed.
Date: 8th Nov 2024 @ 4:50pm
Acorns have been exploring the theme of friendship this week and loved rounding our week off celebrating Odd Socks Day through a variety of multi-sensory activities including sock matching, pegging socks onto a washing line and counting odd socks.
Acorns looked fantastic wearing their odd socks. We had a great day.
Date: 5th Nov 2024 @ 3:43pm
This week is Anti-bullying week. Acorns have been exploring friendships and social skills with peers. We have been developing our sharing and turn taking skills through a variety of different activities. Take a look!
Date: 1st Nov 2024 @ 9:45am
In Acorns we have a multi-sensory approach to phonics. This week we have been exploring the 'P' sound.
We use activities such as 'what's in the box', mark making in sensory materials and funky fingers to strengthen our fine motor skills to support writing.
We have loved using pumpkins and pegs, building on our Halloween theme this week, to engage our focus, develop our concentration skills, along with our finger strength, while pushing and hammering the pegs into the pumpkin as well as learning the letter p.
Date: 1st Nov 2024 @ 9:20am
Acorns have been reading Room on the Broom, while exploring Halloween this week. We have enjoyed our sensory story, using props and puppets while listening to the story.
We have participated in lots of spooky activities to support or learning.
We loved using our sensory and messy trays to support and engage with maths activities, develop our fine motor skills and developing our social skills alongside each other.
During Arts and crafts we created pumpkins and ghosts.
Date: 1st Nov 2024 @ 8:37am
This term Arcons are focusing on developing their running, jumping and balancing skills during PE.
Acorns enjoyed balancing and moving along the benches in different ways, including sideways, backwards and crawling.
We explored running back and forth between coloured hoops with quoits.
We even brought our physical activities into our outdoor area with new climbing equipment and had great fun.
PE also enables pupils to explore and develop waiting and turn taking skills.
