Acorns: Blog items
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.
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.
