Acorn

Next week, we are learning…. Literacy– Next week, we will be exploring the story of  Julia Donaldson’s ‘Stickman’. We will be drawing characters and writing captions linked to the story.

Next week we are learning…. Literacy– Next week, we will be role playing the characters in the story The Gingerbread Man and continuing to retell the story using actions. We

Next week we are learning….. Literacy– Next week, we will be learning about labels and how to use our segmenting skills to write labels for objects. We will also be

Next week we are learning….. Literacy– Next week, we will be focusing on the traditional tale ‘The Gingerbread Man’. We will be taking part in Drawing Club to draw the

Next week we are learning….. Literacy- Next week, we will be focusing on hearing and recognising rhymes. We will be matching rhyming pairs and creating our own rhymes based around

Next week, we are learning….. Literacy- Next week, we will be focusing on the story of  ‘Room on the Broom’ . We will be learning new vocabulary based on this text

Next week, we are learning……. Literacy- This week, we will be focusing on the story of ‘The Leaf Thief’ by Alice Hemming and Nicola Slater. We will be focusing on vocabulary

Maths In Maths this week we are comparing size, mass and capacity. We compared 3 different pine cones and talked about the difference is size, focusing on the vocabulary we

UTW- Our Bodies This week we have been learning about our bodies. We discussed how we can see our body parts on the outside and there is body parts that

EAD- Family Portraits We have been discussing our families and how all our families are different and special. We decided to make family portraits with loose parts- pebbles and rocks.

EAD- Art We have been talking about what we look like and comparing our similarities and differences. We discussed skin tone, hair colour and eye colour. We used a mirror

Our very first day! We had a fantastic first day in Acorn class. We spent the day getting to know our classroom and teachers and practising our listening skills on

UTW- The toad!!! We were caught by surprise one morning when setting up our outside area- a toad jumped out of the tarpaulin! We were very excited and managed to

UTW- Pirates! We have been learning all about pirates this week! We learnt how to talk like a pirate and learnt about some famous pirates from history. Our challenges this

EAD- Split Pin Join This week we have been learning another way to join. We recapped all the different joins and attachments we have learnt over the year and then

Health and Fitness Week Monday We started off the week with a Wake and Shake on the whole playground- the Acorns really showed off their fantastic dance moves! We then

Seed to Tree- Walk to Golden Wood This week was Acorn’s first part of All Saints Seed to Tree Programme. We were introduced to the history of Golden Wood and

UTW- Fossils We continued our learning about dinosaurs this week and we asked the question how did we know what dinosaurs looked like? We learnt about the discovery of fossils

Forest Schools – Week 2 In our second forest school session the sun shone for us. We built a campfire and learnt how to light it. It was hard work

EAD- Monoprinting We experimented with monoprinting this week. We painted onto foil and then used our fingers and cotton buds to draw a bee. We had practised our bee drawings

UTW- Snails We have been have been learning about snails this week. We focused on our class pets Turbo and Speedy who are Giant African Land Snails. We learnt about

EAD- Loose Parts Minibeasts The Acorns were challenged with using the natural loose parts to create their own minibeast pictures. They had to think about shapes and sizes and where

UTW – Kings Coronation We have been celebrating the Kings Coronation this week and our challenge mountain challenges are royally themed. We have been making numicon crowns, sorting the crown

UTW- Life Cycles This week, we have been learning about the butterfly life cycle. We read the story of ‘The Very Hungry Caterpillar’ and then talked about the process from

UTW This week we have been learning about growing and plants. We talked about the different parts of a plant and learnt some new words including root, shoot, stem and

Topic- A Spring Walk This week we are learning all about Spring and Easter. We talked about the changes that happen between the different seasons and revisited pictures from our

UTW-London Landmarks Our topic lesson this week was learning all about our capital city of London. We read a story about a cat who visits the Queen and all the

Literacy In Drawing Club this week, we decided not to look at a book but to watch a cartoon. It was a cartoon from the past- we talked about how

Maths In Maths this week, we have been focusing on ordering numbers and quantities. We have ordered numerals, cube towers, numicon shapes and ten frames. We played a game called

UTW- Space This week we learnt all about rockets and astronauts. We learnt about how rockets blast up into space and what each part of a rocket does. We decided