This week we have focused on moving and handling. This is something that we do in our everyday play at Westmeston: scooting, climbing, cycling, running and walking in our wonderful natural environment. As well as practising our large gross motor movements, we focused on smaller fine motor skills by threading beads to make necklaces. This is an excellent activity to strengthen little fingers and encourage good hand eye coordination. We have been busy playing some fun phonics g

This week was all about 'moving and handling'. We realised how much of what we do has to do with this! And we found lots of creative ways to practice. We loved having our tool box out this week to practice drilling, making holes and sawing cardboard boxes! We also had lots of other tactile toys out to practice how we can use our hands to make things balance. It was very cold at the start of the week! We loved hunting around for ice in the garden and seeing how our faces chan

This week our focus was on communication and language, specifically speaking. We used our book of the week, 'The Little Red Hen', to talk about characters and plots and we retold the story line using some sensory materials. It was interesting to have a discussion about whether or not the animals in the story should have been allowed to share the Little Red Hen's bread, even though they refused to help make it. The children had some interesting ideas, "The Little Red Hen shoul

Wow! What a busy week. We have enjoyed lots of fun, activities and laughter this week at The Acorns in Lindfield. We made some beautiful brightly coloured paintings with Mrs Franks using a tray and some balls. First we had to put our paper into the tray before splashing in some paint. There were lots of colours to choose from. We then threw in some balls. Some children chose two balls and others decided to have three. We held onto the tray and moved in around allowing the ba

Welcome to this week’s blog post. We have had a wonderful week of playing, exploring and learning at The Acorns in Lindfield. We spent a lot of time outdoors exploring the garden, it has been cold and wet but with the right type of clothes we managed to (mostly) be warm and dry. The rain had pooled to make big puddles that were perfect for splashing in ! We worked out that the higher we jumped, the more the water splashed out. We did lots of arts and crafts this week too. We

This week our focus was on 'Making Relationships' and we spent time talking about our families and our feelings. We read the book 'We Are Family' which was a lovely way to start our discussions. We looked at families of every sort and the children noticed families that looked like theirs and families that looked different to theirs. Throughout the week, we also read 'The Colour Monster' which helped the children to identify emotions and assign a colour to them. They had fun d

It was so lovely to be back at The Acorns Westmeston this week and to hear about the children's Christmas holidays. We hope you enjoy these pictures of the first week of term. Spotting signs of spring.... Making musical shakers... Fun in the garden.... Jungle dressing up.... Our Friday walk.... We look forward to more fun and adventure next week. It is going to be chilly, so please make sure your child brings plenty of spare named, warm clothes,

Welcome to our first blog post of 2021! It has been a delight to welcome back all of the children this week! There has been lots of wonderful stories from the Christmas holidays we have loved sharing with our friends. It was a joy to see them all so happy to see each-other, and how engaged they were with all we have got up to in our first week of the Spring Term. As always, we have spent plenty of time outside this week. Sliding on the slides, playing in the mud kitchen and i