November - 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 commencing 25th November - Westmeston

Week commencing 25th November - Westmeston

There was some messy fun in store for us this week as we investigated colours and textures. We used coloured ice to paint with and watched how the shapes of the ice blocks changed as they melted. Some of the ice blocks even had creatures inside! By lunchtime, all that was left was a watery mixture of colours. We wondered if the ice would melt so quickly outside. Another fun activity was driving cars through paint to make a variety of marks. We loved working as a team to make

Week commencing 18th November - Westmeston

Week commencing 18th November - Westmeston

Our focus for this week has been 'health and self care' and so we have been practising how to keep ourselves clean. We drew germs on teeth then had fun brushing them clean with a toothbrush. We learnt the importance of washing our hands as well. Mrs Tubb used green paint to be the pretend germs on her hand then shook hands with us! It showed us how germs can spread and why it is important to wash our hands before we eat and after we go to the toilet. We learnt a new song that

Week commencing November 11th - Westmeston

Week commencing November 11th - Westmeston

We started the week off on Remembrance Day which we marked by decorating Remembrance poems with printed poppies. We talked about the significance of the day and why it is important. This week we have been focusing on reading. We made our own books and some of us narrated stories to Mrs Tubb and Mrs Spencer which they wrote down in for us. This year is the 50th anniversary of The Hungry Caterpillar and we celebrated by using our story sack for the book. We read the story and a

Week commencing 4th November - Westmeston

Week commencing 4th November - Westmeston

We celebrated Bonfire Night this week and created some 'Fireworks in a Jar'. We poured warm water into a jar and then added drops of food colouring to some oil. When we added the oil into the water, we watched the colourful blobs explode and make pretty patterns. We also made some colourful firework pictures using straws and runny paint. We had to remember to blow through the straw and not suck! This week we have been thinking about feelings and how to recognise other people'