What a lot of rain we have had this week and what a lot of mud! But we haven't let the weather dampen our spirits, in fact we seem to have had even more fun in the wet weather! The sun shone for our gardening club on Monday and the boys are doing a wonderful job of keeping the area tidy. This week they used spades and rakes to make it neat. We have spent some time practising putting on our wet weather clothing, which we have needed a lot during the week. Some of our waterproo

Welcome to our blog and by the look of the weather this week, welcome to Autumn! On Monday one of the children brought in a box full of goodies for our harvest display. In the box there were lots of wonderful things for us to look at, apples, a gem squash, some herbs, tomatoes and grapes … We enjoyed talking about them and taking turns to hold them. It was really interesting to see if the children knew what they were. Only one child was able to name a parsnip, 2 children coul

What a glorious week of sunshine we have had. So much so, we have hardly spent any time indoors. We have enjoyed using lots of different building materials to create shelters and structures. Using good teamwork is important when working on projects together and we have had to listen to our friends' different ideas and opinions. Good listening skills were also important when using our musical instruments on Thursday. We listened to the different sounds the instruments made and

Welcome to our weekly blog post. We hope you enjoy reading all about our time at The Acorns and we love to see your comments. This week started with us making a display as part of Lindfield Arts Festival. We discussed many different ideas with the children and together we decided to make a sensory garden. We spoke about all the things growing in our garden that we enjoy smelling and touching. “I like the bunny ear plant.” (Sage - the leaves are soft and feel slightly furr

The week started with rain and ended with glorious sunshine, however, we've been out and about whatever the weather, taking in all the signs of Autumn that we are starting to see. Monday's gardening club did a great job of clearing our garden area behind the hall. The raspberry bush had become very overgrown and needed cutting back ready to grow again in the Spring. Despite the rain, they had fun using gardening tools to get the job done. Well done boys! The electronic Beebot

We have had a wonderful week at The Acorns in Lindfield. The new children who have joined our group are all doing really well and we have enjoyed getting to know them and helping them to settle in. We have played board games this week in small groups to help strengthen friendship groups. We enjoyed this game – We had to match up the bugs and mini beasts to our game boards and we got to shout BINGO really loudly when we had matched all the pictures. We have been thinking ahead

Welcome back everybody! We hope you all had a lovely summer. It has been wonderful seeing everyone back at Acorns and hearing all about their summer adventures. We have started each morning this week with circle time and reminded ourselves of the five skills we need - listening, looking, thinking, concentrating and speaking. It has been a lovely way to say good morning to each other and to our friend, Woofy the dog, who joins us for circle time. We love to give Woofy big hugs