Nursery Acorns
Welcome to Acorns Class
The Class Teacher is Mrs O'Reilly
Acorns 2024-25
Reverend Jim read the Easter Story to us on our visit to Church. We sang and waved our Palm Crosses - Hosannah!
Spring weather play in our Learning Garden! We made sand jelly and sand soup!
We are watching our caterpillars growing - what will they become?
Lizzie brought some worms for us to see!
Celebrating the beginning of Spring and Pancake Day! Links to Christian Values: Respect, Hope, Friendship, Koinonia Links to Articles: 28, 29, 31
Today we visited our Forest School. We found worms, centipedes, snails and slugs. We saw frogspawn in the pond! Links to Christian Values: Respect, Friendship, Hope, Koinonia Links to Articles: 28, 29, 31
We loved the story of Oliver’s Vegetables. Look at some of this weeks activities! Links to Christian Values: Respect, Friendship Hope, Koinonia Links to Articles: 28, 29, 31
Today we made Vegetables Noodles - they were spicy! Links to Christian Values: Respect, Hope, Friendship, Koinonia Links to Articles: 28, 29, 31
This week we have been celebrating The Chinese New Year - do you know that 2025 is the Year of the Snake. Links to Christian Values: Respect, Hope, Koinonia Links to Articles: 28, 29, 31
Some of the activities that we have enjoyed this week - making our own dragon, ordering numbers, and using chopsticks. Links to Christian Values: Respect, Friendship, Hope, Koinonia Links to Articles: 28, 29, 31
We use the Whiteboard to help with our learning!
This week we read the story of The Little Red Hen and we made bread just like her! It tasted delicious!
A surprise visit from Santa!
We visited Reverend Jim at church and helped him set up the Nativity Scene. Links to Christian Values: Respect, Hope, Koinonia Links to Articles: 28, 29, 31
This week we have been reading Day Monkey, Night Monkey! Take a look at some of our paintings. Links to Christian Values: Respect, Hope, Koinonia Links to Articles: 28, 29, 31
Children in Need 2024! Links to Christian Values: Respect, Hope, Koinonia Links to Articles: 28, 29, 31
Remembering all the Armed Forces who gave their lives for us! Links to Christian Values: Respect, Hope, Koinonia Links to Articles: 28, 29, 31
Look at our amazing Poppy paintings!
Cake making!
Children’s Book Project!
Acorns to the Rescue - Save the Bee!
“Show Racism the Red Card!”
Mental Health Awareness Day!
Look how well we are writing our names!
Take a look at how the children are settling into Nursery, making friends and exploring in the Learning Garden.
Acorns 2023-2024
This Half Term our Learning Quest is Under the Sea. We will be reading stories such as The Rainbow Fish, The Tickly Octopus and The Storm Whale to find out some facts about different sea creatures!
EYFS SPORTS DAY 2024 - what fun we all had!
Well done Pheadra and Yug for super reading and achieving their certificate!
Well done Hinson, Omar and Haki for Super Reading this week!
Our Mud Kitchen is open and taking orders!
Well Done Poppy and Hannah for Super Reading Every Week!
This week we made and baked a cake. It was delicious full of chocolate chips!!
Well done Amelia and Divine - super reading every week!
PC Gurv visited us today! We sat in the police van and tried on the police helmets!
What a successful Stay and Play Session in Nursery! Thank you to all the families that attended today!
Fun in the Mud Kitchen!
This half term our Learning Quest is Minibeasts. We will be reading some of the stories written by Eric Carle.
We visited Rev Jim to hear the story of Easter. We waved Palm Crosses and sang a song.
Today we visited the Library to share stories and take home some books!
We did a sponsored circuit to raise money for Diabetes UK! (Article 24)
World Book Day 2024!
Our Learning Quest this half term is "What Does It Taste Like? We will focus on stories about different foods and will be making and tasting some foods.
We celebrated the Year of the Dragon 2024 - we made a dragon and danced through the Hall.
We had an amazing turn-out of parents at Our Reading Cafe singing songs, reading stories and looking around our classroom!
We learned the Gruffalo song!
Take a listen to our amazing singing! We learnt the Gruffalo song and sang it with the puppets we made!
This week we read the story of The Gruffalo. We painted pictures and made Gruffalo puppets!
Our Learning Quest this half term is ‘What Time Is It?’
We will be celebrating Bonfire Night, Remembrance Sunday and Diwali and will end with our Celebrations for Christmas!
Please remember to check what we have been learning about!
A special visitor arrived at the Acorns Christmas Party!
Reverend Jim invited us to the Church to see the Nativity Scene.
We sang in the EYFS production of ‘Whoops a Daisy Angel!’
Happy Christmas Jumper Day! How fab are our Christmas jumpers?!
Gwen the Dental Nurse visited us today. She read us a story and taught us how to keep our teeth healthy. We helped brush Sally's teeth too!
Children in Need November 23 - look at our Pudsey ears!
We wore odd socks to stand against Bullying!
We read the story of Rama and Sita. We talked about how some people celebrate Diwali! Look at our lovely Diwali cards and our Rangoli step!
11.11.23 we Learnt about Poppies and what they mean. We remembered all the soldiers hurt in the war by making and decorating lots of poppies We listened to the last post and laid poppies.
We learnt all about Bonfire night! We drew lots of pictures of fireworks and even made Sparklers!
Today we showed Racism the Red Card! (Links to Article 7&8)
Today we decorated cakes as we have been celebrating Kipper's Birthday! (Links to article 31)
Today Dotty the Owl visited us in school. We learned that owls hunt at night for mice to eat!
We have been practising our cutting skills by snipping cabbage and lettuce.
We have had lots of fun on our new slide we got this week! (Article 31)
Miss Charlotte came to work with us in our PE lesson. We learned to follow instructions and make body shapes! Look at what we did!
Today we enjoyed sharing stories with our adults in the Nursery Reading Cafe! This links to Articles 28, 29,31.
We are enjoying our time in Acorns class! Look how well we have settled. (Article 28 & 29)
In our first week in Acorns Class, we have been learning to choose our activities and make new friends. (Articles 29 & 31)
