January - 2019

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Welcome to our weekly blog! Our parents love keeping up-to-date on all the exciting things we get up to at the Acorns - and we love sharing some of our favourite photos each week. Happy reading!

Week Beginning 21st January 2019 - Westmeston

Week Beginning 21st January 2019 - Westmeston

We started the week off with icy puddles. We talked about how the ice happened and why it melted as we played in the sunshine. We enjoyed trying to break it up and collected up some of the pieces to take back with us. When we checked on them we discovered that they were no longer ice but water! How did that happen? We talked about safety on icy puddles because you don't know how deep the water is underneath the ice. We sailed the seven seas with the pirate ship this week a

Week Beginning 14th January 2019 - Westmeston

Week Beginning 14th January 2019 - Westmeston

We have been really pleased to see such good sharing and taking turns when playing with the toys and equipment. This week we have made banana bread and cheesy biscuits. We had to look at a recipe which told us what ingredients we needed and then weigh them and mix them. It was really hard not to eat the cheese and cake and mixtures while we were cooking. The finished results were yummy! We read the story of the Little Red Hen and tried to understand that we all need to hel

Week Commencing 14th January 2019 - Lindfield.

Week Commencing 14th January 2019 - Lindfield.

This week we focused on making relationships. We gave the children lots of opportunities to play games that promoted sharing, turn taking and team work. Thank you to those of you that brought in games and puzzles for the children to share. We enjoyed board games, floor puzzles and building gigantic train tracks that stretched around the entire room! We used a pyrography pen to make necklaces. We wrote our names and drew a picture onto the wood and then Mrs Franks traced over

Week Beginning 7th January 2019 - Westmeston

Week Beginning 7th January 2019 - Westmeston

Happy New Year and welcome back everybody. We have had such a busy week. We have made new friends, welcomed visitors and best of all, we have a new grown up to play with - Mrs Tubb who is Sam's mummy. Sam has been very good at sharing her! We have talked about Christmas and it was so lovely to hear that stories of seeing various family members featured heavily in memories rather than presents received! It was lovely to see the effort made to wear our uniform. Let's keep it