What a brilliant week! This week our focus has been on technology. Within our continuous provisions we included a variety of simple tech toys for the children to explore. Mini lap tops Mobile phones Battery operated toys Calculators Cameras and printers We have enjoyed experimenting with our child friendly technology and we have spoken about the games we play at home on ipads, tablets and phones. There is a lot of useful information regarding internet safety for young childre

With our focus being on reading this week, we have shared lots of lovely books. We spoke about some our favourites; "Superpotato" "My unicorn book and the book about Daisy and peas" "Tabby McTat" We have been reading Owl Babies as a group and enjoyed the sensory display of leaves, feathers and puppets. It has been fun to join in with the story and play the parts of the owls as they wonder where their Mummy has gone. We had a go at making up our own story. Mrs Tubb narrated as

Welcome to this week's blog post. We have had so much fun this week at The Acorns. Over the weekend Mrs Irwin had taken down our Chinese New Year display on the dresser in preparation for our new display which we will add to over the next week or so. We have been busy making Valentines pictures. We printed with heart shaped cutters using red and pink paint We helped to make super hero soup for lunch. We tried hard to identify all of the vegetables that were going into the sou

This week's blog is two for one as we cover the last two weeks at Westmeston. Last week it was delightful to have some frosty weather which was a pleasant change from all the rain we are used to. Mrs Tubb and Sam made some ice sculptures to hang up in the frost. They looked beautiful and we discussed how they might change during the day. "They might melt." "Into water." We were right. As the day went on, we saw how the ice melted and dripped away to reveal the flowers and lea