Acorns: Blog items
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.
Date: 18th Oct 2024 @ 5:29pm
Acorns have been exploring their senses over the past couple of weeks as part of our topic marvellous me! We have been focusing on our touch and smell in particular and have enjoyed lots of sensory experiences to support our understanding.
Acorns loved having surprise cups to sniff. We didn't know what was inside them but all had a good sniff. Some were definitely much nicer than others, especially the garlic, yuk!
Acorns enjoyed exploring a variety of textures through touch. We especially loved our sensory walk without our shoes and socks on, so we could experience touch in different ways.
We can't wait to explore sight and sounds of Autumn next term.
Date: 18th Oct 2024 @ 8:13am
This week Acorns have been reading the Colour Monster. We have had lots of fun exploring colours, colour mixing and emotions linked to our story.
Pupils have explored colour sorting and matching in maths, learning new makaton signs for colours and looking at their faces in mirrors, making different emotions.
Date: 15th Oct 2024 @ 8:20pm
Acorns have had a surprise visit today from a hedgehog brought in by Blackpool's hedgehog rescue. We were excited to meet the little hedgehog and watch him snuffle along our table. Carolyn talked to us about some hedgehog facts and we'll be learning more about nocturnal animals including hedgehogs next term.
Date: 15th Oct 2024 @ 8:03pm
Acorns have been enjoying the book 'You Choose' to explore and develop their understanding about choice and making a choice.
We have encouraged Acorns to make different choices throughout the week in all aspects of their learning and play.
Acorns have enjoyed a multi-sensory approach to making choices. We loved choosing different hats to wear, different outfits, especially super hero's, to dress up in and different tools to explore with in art and mark making.
We also used visuals to support our choice making during snack and lunch times.
Date: 10th Oct 2024 @ 4:23pm
Acorns have been reading Owl Babies. We have had lots of fun engaging with the sensory story.
Acorns have enjoyed the owl theme running through their learning experiences in maths, mark making and even developing their cutting skills. We even made our very own owls in art.
The best bit was getting to meet the owls when they came to visit!
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Date: 10th Oct 2024 @ 4:06pm
Acorns have been exploring and celebrating Harvest. Today we have been making bread.
We had lots of fun mixing the ingredients and trying to knead the dough.
Our bread rolls turned out great. Have a look.
Date: 4th Oct 2024 @ 2:21pm
Acorns have enjoyed exploring and learning about Harvest this week. We have learnt about the different crops we can harvest and the role of the farmer.
We enjoyed using our tractor in the sensory tray and digging for different vegetables. We loved using the vegetables to print and mark make with.
Date: 3rd Oct 2024 @ 12:41pm
This week Acorns have been learning about people who help us in the community.
We have had lots of fun exploring through our sensory trays, puzzle matching, stories and songs and rhymes.
We especially loved dressing up and the puppets.
Date: 29th Sep 2024 @ 10:36am
Acorns have been exploring PE on a Thursday afternoon. We have been developing our transitions to and from the dance studio for a new activity and continuing to build our weekly routines.
This term's PE focus is exploring and developing our throwing, catching and kicking skills. We also incorporate gross motor skill development and opportunities to develop turn taking skills.
We have had lots of fun exploring our new activities in the dance studio.
Date: 23rd Sep 2024 @ 9:10pm
Bailey is our school therapy dog. She will be visiting Acorns weekly to spend some time with the children.
Some of our pupils already know Bailey from last year, our new pupils will be able to get to know her over the coming weeks.
We enjoyed catching up with Bailey and are looking forward to spending time with her weekly.
Date: 20th Sep 2024 @ 1:28pm
Acorns have been busy learning all about me, over the last couple of weeks.
We have been reading This is me and From Head to Toe.
We have had lots of fun developing our understanding through music and exploring our faces and how our bodies move with mirrors.
We have been exploring mark making and making faces during arts and crafts.
Using visuals and Makaton to support our understanding.
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Date: 4th Sep 2024 @ 5:13pm
Acorns have enjoyed their first few days settling into their new learning environment and meeting new peers and staff.
We have been busy exploring lots of different areas and resources as well as beginning to establish our daily routines.
Acorns - Visit to Farmer Parrs
Date: 16th Jul 2024 @ 1:11pm
This term Acorns have been exploring growth on the farm. We have been learning about different animals and the habitats on the farm.
Acorns have enjoyed their trip out to experience the farm first hand. Acorns enjoyed seeing the variety of animals on the farm, watching them eating and seeing where they lived.
We found the animals a little noisy but loved the opportunity to copy them too!
We even saw some alpacas and deer. What a great day!
Date: 5th Jul 2024 @ 4:23pm
This week Acorns have been exploring the seaside.
We have had lots of fun sensory experiences including splat the sandcastle, underwater tuff trays and our sensory story, 'What the ladybird heard at the seaside'.
We also read Billy's Bucket and enjoyed choosing what we would put in our own buckets. We even created our own seaside scene.
Acorns - A visit from the Naughty Bus
Date: 2nd Jul 2024 @ 2:27pm
Acorns have been celebrating Geography day with a visit from the Naughty Bus.
We enjoyed reading the story about the naughty bus and its journey.
Acorns then went on their own journey to explore our school community. Soon the naughty bus was popping up everywhere!! We found he had been to reception class, he had visited Mrs Bunday's office, Year 1, Elmer, the reading tree and Miss Moyes office. We had great fun exploring the school and finally found the bus un the sensory room where we enjoyed spending some time.
We can't wait for the naughty bus to come and visit again to see what our next journey could be!!!
Acorns - Supertato and Health week
Date: 30th Jun 2024 @ 5:40pm
Acorns have been celebrating Health & Well-Being week this week through a variety of activities. Firstly, our very successful interactive sports session which we all loved. Our sensory story was Supertato. We loved listening to the story and exploring the Superveggies!! We had a selection of vegetables to touch, smell and taste before matching them to the correct cards. We also made fruit kebabs and loved tasting a variety of fruit and strengthening our fine motor skills, threading the fruit onto skewers. We counted potatoes and vegetables during maths and even made our own Supertato art work. We finished the week off wearing bright and sporty outfits and developing some turn taking skills during our activities.
