Hello everyone and welcome to our blog post. We hope you enjoy reading about our week at The Acorns. This week our focus has been – Our Feelings. Each day we have read The Colour Monster by Anna Llenas. The books is colourful and engaging and the children have been learning about different emotions and how they all are important. We followed the colour monster on his journey to sort his emotions into jars. Each colour represented a different feeling. Yellow – Happiness Blue

Welcome to our blog post. We hope you enjoy reading all about our week. This week our focus has been on emotions and we have been learning how to recognise our emotions and those of others. We played a matching and sorting game - There were lots of different facial expressions printed on cards and the children tried to mimic the faces. We went for a lovely walk into the village. We were looking for signs that Autumn had arrived. We found lots of fallen leaves and many of t

Hello and welcome to our weekly blog post. We hope you enjoy reading about all of the things we have been doing this week at The Acorns 25. We enjoyed a lovely walk to the park together. The children walked well and listened carefully to our instructions on the way to help keep them safe. We had lots of fun at the park using all of the play equipment and running around. We went on the slide, swings and roundabouts. We also did lots of climbing and balancing. We had our snac

Welcome to our blog post. We hope you enjoy reading about our week. This week our theme has been ‘My favourite foods.’ We have spent lots of time chatting about foods and how they can help to keep us healthy and well. We know that food gives us energy and we need lots of energy to be able to play and explore all day. We made our own soup for lunch - the children used the child safe knives to chop up the vegetables into small chunks. They were able to identify most of the ve

Hello and welcome to our blog post. We hope you enjoy reading about our week. We have had so many lovely conversations about the places that we each call home. We have learnt that homes can come in all shapes and sizes and have explored houses, flats, bungalows, cottages and many more. We have encouraged the children to talk about their own homes and the people they live with. Our homes and families all look different but from the sounds of it they are all filled with happine

Hello and welcome to our blog post. We hope you enjoy reading about our week. This week our focus has been ‘Our Homes’ We have had lots of fun exploring the theme and it has been very interesting to observe what the children know and can communicate about their own homes. We played a fun game – We placed lots of household objects into a box and took one thing out at a time, talking about where in our houses we would find these things. The types of things we had in our box wer