Acorn

Maths This week, we have been learning about repeating patterns. We made action repeating patterns inspired by our favourite warm up dance “Banana Banana Meatball”. We made shape patterns using

Maths We have been learning all about 3D shapes this week- we have sorted, matched and built with the 3D shapes. We have learnt a rather catchy song to help

Literacy We made an exciting discovery this week- a letter from some pirates and a treasure map! We followed the clues to build a sentence which told us where the

Literacy We have been learning all about life under the sea this week and have been absolutely loving the story ‘Commotion in the Ocean’ by Giles Andreae. We played a

Literacy We have been learning the story ‘We’re Going on a Lion Hunt’ by David Axtell. We have learnt to tell it using actions. This week, we have been creating

Topic This week, we have been learning about places in the world that have hot climates. We found Africa on our class map and found out some information about the

Topic This week, we have been learning about astronauts. We talked about how the training you have to do to be an astronaut and what it is like to live

Maths This week, we have been learning about combining two sets of objects and counting them. We introduced the add and equals signs and talked about how to make a

Literacy In Literacy this week, we added a new item to our Super Writer Toolkit. We added finger spaces! We made our own finger spacers which we were really excited

P.E In P.E this week, we went to Space! We travelled around the room and ‘landed’ on our launch pads. We counted down and then took off into space. We

Music This week something exciting happened in our music lesson…..we were let loose on the glockenspiels! We first talked about how to hold the beater and then we spent some

Maths In Maths, we have been learning how to find number bonds to 5. We have been using the part-part-whole model to help us with our number bonds. We started

Winter Role Play We have a new role play area in Acorn class and we are so excited to play in it this week! We had been inspired by Oaken’s

Wriggly Nativity! We performed and filmed our Christmas Play called ‘Wriggly Nativity’ to send out to all our friends and family. We were most definitely ‘wriggly’ but we had so

Literacy We made a discovery on Monday morning- some snowy footprints led to a special letter from Father Christmas. He had asked us to write him a list of what

P.E We have been really enjoying climbing during our gymnastics sessions and this week we enjoyed the ropes too. We are becoming very brave and independent! We looked at different

Art Our focus artist this term is Wassily Kandinsky. We took some time to look at his art and discussed the shapes we could see. We were inspired to make

Topic This week we celebrated Diwali! We learnt all about who and how it is celebrated and listened to the story of Rama and Sita. We made coconut barfi sweets

Topic This week we have learnt about Remembrance Day. We talked about the meaning behind this day and why the poppy is significant. We learnt a little bit about what

Topic This week we have been celebrating Bonfire Night. We listened to the story of Guy Fawkes and then learnt about how we celebrate Bonfire Night today. We pretended to

Maths This week we have been focusing on composition of numbers 1,2,3 and using our subitizing skils to recognise different representations of numbers without counting. We sorted different representations of

Generosity Week This week at All Saints we have been celebrating generosity week. We have talked about what generosity means and challenged ourselves to think of ways to be kind

Topic This week we have been learning about where we live. First, we talked about our school and went on a tour of the school. We were especially excited to

P.E In P.E this week, we had a go at archery. We were very excited and listened carefully to the instructions. It was a little tricky to get the arrow

Co-operation We have been teaching the Acorns all about our school’s learning behaviours. They are 6 learning behaviours that we try to achieve through our time at All Saints’ to