This week our focus was mathematics, specifically numbers. Most of our number work is done as part of our everyday play and activities, such as counting conkers, reading number signs whilst out on walks or drawing numbers in the mud. But this week, we also had some fun with specific maths resources which the children loved investigating - counting bears, ordering numbers and making block towers were very popular. We celebrated two birthdays this week which was a perfect excus

Welcome to our weekly blog, This week our focus was expressive arts and design and the children certainly enjoyed being creative in a variety of ways. The leaves on the trees in the garden are really starting to fall now, so we have made the most of the various colours and shapes. We used the lightbox to look at some leaves in detail. We spoke about the season of autumn and why the leaves fall form the trees. The children got creative with leaves as well and used them to mak

What a wonderful week! We have had lots of fun this week at The Acorns. On Monday we made some Autumn tree pictures. We used our fingers to make prints on our paper. We understand that the leaves change colour in the Autumn before falling from the trees. We spoke about the different colours of leaves we have seen laying on the ground and we looked out the window into our garden to check our trees. The pictures are hanging up on one of our doors for us to look at. We asked th

This week, we have focused on people in our community. We spoke a lot about different people who help us and played a fun guessing game. "Who would you see if you felt poorly?" "Who helps us to look after our teeth?" We came up with lots of people in our community that help us, including Mummies and Daddies! The children had fun dressing up as various people in the community and the big red fire engine is always a hit! On our Friday walk, we often wave to the postman as he d

Focus - People and communities (Understanding the World) We started the week with a lovely walk around the village. When we are out walking we hold on to a magic rope that helps keep us all together and keep us safe. We need to use our listening ears and we learn about road safety. We walked to ‘The Conker House’ which isn't too far away from The Acorns. Each year we are invited to a local garden to collect the fallen conkers. We collected lots and put them into a big bucket

This week our focus has been on moving and handling. This is always an easy area for us to cover at Westmeston as the children are always on the move! Running in the garden, jumping over logs, balancing on ropes, climbing trees, using ride on toys - the children develop every aspect of their gross motor skills as part of their everyday play. Because of the rain this week, we chose to do some of our physical activity in the hall. We are lucky enough to have a large indoor spac