Well, it's been another very mild week. Drizzly, misty and quite spooky! We are observing how Autumn is changing the sights, sounds and smells of our beautiful surroundings. We have noticed late ladybirds flying around and the tiniest bugs in the leaves. Our fascination with webs continues as we made spider webs with glue and made a web that we could peg numbered spiders onto which gave us a little bit of finger gym exercise with number recognition thrown in. We had The Acor

On Monday morning a group of children went out for a lovely walk. It was a warm and dry day. They walked through the village to the park. On the way they came across a big pile of leaves. We know that in Autumn the leaves fall from the trees and that they dry out, change colour and become crunchy. We had so much fun throwing the leaves around and burying our legs in them. The children who stayed at The Acorns had fun in the garden. They rode on bikes, climbed on the climbin

What a fabulously busy week we have had. The leaves are swirling all around us and making lovely crunchy piles on the ground for us to dig in and throw. This week we learned how to make a spark and catch it to make a fire. We heated up milk to make a hot chocolate and toasted marshmallows on sticks. We then put the fire out with water and made steam. We then went off to the mud kitchen to make more food. Later on in the week we made cheesy wraps. On Tuesday, it was bit of

On Monday we made some amazing models using old yoghurt pots, cardboard tubes and cereal boxes. We used glue and tape to stick our materials together. We made rockets, cars, ships and crocodile heads. Thank you for bringing in your used tubs and boxes. On Tuesday we made pretty collage pictures. We had a huge variety of things to stick on to our pictures. Jewels, tissue paper, pipe cleaners, seeds and stickers. When we were in the garden we went searching for mini beasts – it

We had a lovely start to the week when we walked up to St Martin’s Church with our Harvest offerings. We enjoyed looking at the beautiful dahlia flowers that decorated the church and saw a really large loaf of bread that looked like a plait! We sniffed the flowers and talked about the fruit and vegetables that were at the altar. Donations went to St Peter and St James Hospice. Thank you! We are still enjoying the story of The Enormous Turnip as we talked about vegetables bein

What an amazing week we have had at The Acorns. On Monday we found a big slug crawling up the window. It left a slimy and shiny trail on the glass. We watched it for a while and noticed how it stretched out and we saw it's antennae. Some children went out for an adventure walk with Mrs Booth and Miss Whale. Each year we are invited to visit a garden in the village that has a giant horse chestnut tree. When the conkers start to fall, the man gives us a call and invites us to