The children enjoyed looking at how the water had changed from a liquid to a solid after it had been frozen. They used lots of words to describe what they saw and how the gloves felt; hard, icy, freezing, cold, slimy, slippery.

Next week our role play is going to be…..a Pizza Parlour 😋

Autumn#2 Once Upon A Time

Please see attached Acorns curriculum planning for Autumn Term 2.

Acorns Christmas Story – Parent Invite PDF

At Forest School, we retold the story of ‘The Gingerbread Man’, the children were all given a character and a part to act out in the story, they loved saying the repeated phrase ‘Run, run as fast as you can, you can’t catch me I’m the Gingerbread Man’.
The children decorated a Gingerbread Man made out of cardboard, using dried leaves and flowers – when the children scrunched up the leaves they listened to the sounds they made, they liked how the leaves felt lightly, crumbling through their fingers.

Miss Merricks did an experiment with the children to give them a better understanding about germs, how to stop them spreading and careful hygiene. The children were fascinated!

We followed this up with a song https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=qrOYWiDyov0

The children enjoyed baking Gingerbread Men this week, Mrs Holloway shared her special recipe.

A lovely last week of term, we have celebrated a 4th birthday, the children enjoyed some delicious cakes brought in by a parent.

This week children have enjoyed using the felt tip pens to trace patterns and shapes, they have been creative with paints using vehicles to make marks, drawn around wooden animal stencils then collaged and helped decorate lettering for our display board ‘Acorns Favourite Books’.

Our colour of the week was blue so we were looking at objects inside and outside, coloured blue. We continued looking at numerals 0-3, the children are starting to recognise these numbers out of order (which is amazing) – they also had a go at painting them.

The children have all been a super helpers looking after our indoor and outdoor space. They have swept, tidied and washed up after snack. Thank you!