Dear Acorns,

Happy Monday! I hope that you’ve all had a lovely weekend!

This week is Mental Health Week so some of the activities will be helping us to keep our minds healthy this week. There is a special video to watch as this week’s first challenge. Miss Morgan has also made a really special story time for this book which is on our whole class blog.

Here are this week’s challenges:

Jasper’s Beanstalk Challenges week 2

This week I have something exciting to show you all! I have some new pets to look after, some tiny little caterpillars. Here they are eating their food

  

• How many tiny caterpillars can you count?
• I need your help naming the caterpillars! When you send me your photos this week, can you think of one name for a caterpillar and send me your idea?
• Once the caterpillars have eaten enough food, what will happen to them next?

I will keep you updated with photos and videos so you can watch them grow and change.

Resources for this week’s challenges:

I will be adding a video later on this week with instructions for planting your bean.

• Lucy’s Blue Day story

• Cosmic Yoga – Coco the butterfly

• Spaghetti beanstalk instructions

Spaghetti Beanstalks

• Titch story

I would love to hear about your learning at home this week, send photos to admin@st-annes.wandsworth.sch.uk with Acorn in the subject line.

Best wishes,

Mrs Eyre

Dear Acorns,

I hope that you’ve all had a great week and managed to complete some of the ‘Jasper’s Beanstalk’ challenges!

We have another new friend in Acorn Class, a warm welcome to Frederick! Here are a few photos of Frederick keeping busy at home with his lovely cat. I wonder what Frederick’s cat is called?

     

Well done to these Busy Bees this week! Have you been looking out to see what character is on your Busy Bee award each week?

Mackensie was very excited to see that this week’s Cosmic Yoga was with Parsnip the cat. I like Mackensie’s cat costume, she looks like she could be Jasper’s sister! Mackensie has spent time working on a beautiful princess castle with a swimming castle, what a great idea!

       

Thomas has had lots of fun at home this week. He has been getting involved in more baking and looks like an expert whisker! What a good idea Thomas had to match the number to how many pieces of fruit on his window. It is lovely to see Thomas enjoy sharing stories with his sister Olivia too!

     

Poppy’s highlight of the week has  been meeting the local swan’s 7 signets! She has been visiting her daily , watching her on her nest during lockdown :). She has also been making some banana bread, just like the delicious one she brought in for Show and Tell!

   

Wow, look how tall Joseph’s sunflower stem is now! Joseph has been very patient waiting just like Jasper! I love the homemade beanstalk, I wonder if there are any giants at the top Joseph…?

           

Next week we will have some more exciting ‘Jasper’s Beanstalk’ challenges. Just like Jasper I thought we could have a go at planting some beans together. You will need to have the following things ready for the end of next week:

• Clear plastic cup or empty jar
• Planting beans – either broad beans or runner beans could be good but you could use any that you fancy
• Kitchen roll or cotton wool

As our theme at the moment is planting, here is a little video about Sarah and Duck planting small onions (Shallots)! Like Jasper, Sarah and Duck had to be very patient as they waited for their seeds to grow. Do you remember what being patient means?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b01qyj98/sarah-duck-series-1-1-lots-of-shallots

Here is a reading challenge for fun, see how many of these you can do whilst you are at home!

Reading challenge 3-5 years

Have a lovely weekend Acorns!

Best wishes,

Mrs Eyre

Hi Acorns!

I hope you’ve all had a lovely weekend and enjoyed some VE Day Celebrations! This week I am very excited because we will begin to look at a new story! This week’s story might be a new story for some of you, there is a copy of it in your pack and I have recorded a little story time for you so that we can share the story together.

Here are this week’s challenges, see if you can do one a day!

Jasper’s Beanstalk Challenges

Here are some of the resources you will need for this week’s challenges:

• Jack and the Beanstalk film

• Parsnip the cat Cosmic Yoga

• The parable of The mustard seed

• The Magic Bean Game instructions and picture cards:

The Magic Bean Game

We would like to welcome a new friend to Acorn Class. Erin says hello and can’t wait to meet you all! She was very excited to pick up her home learning pack and here are some photos of Erin being a very busy learner.

      

A big well done to last week’s Busy Bees Kian, Thomas, Rayleigh, Poppy and Joseph. Here is a little snippet of some of the fun activities they enjoyed last week!

Thomas I love the caterpillar that you’ve made out of salami,cucumber and pretzels. It looks very tasty!

        

Kian has been very busy feeding his caterpillar!

 

Where has Joseph gone? He seems to have turned into Superman, a whale and crocodile this week!

       

Poppy has had a very creative and arty week!

       

Rayleigh your Hungry Caterpillar colouring is beautiful!

 

How are your sunflowers growing? Sometimes when we plant seeds they grow and sometimes they don’t, it’s a bit of a funny experiment!

Here is a video of Topsy and Tim planting sunflowers too. Snuggle up and enjoy this episode of Topsy and Tim.

I hope you all have a great week and enjoy this week’s new challenges. I look forward to hearing from you and seeing some of your pictures!

If you are able to, send photos to admin@st-annes.wandsworth.sch.uk with Acorn in the subject line.

Best wishes,

Mrs Eyre

 

Hello Acorns!

How are you? I hope you are all well, it was lovely speaking to some of you on the phone last week. If I didn’t get to speak to you then I look forward to speaking to you this week :).

I had lots of fun having a go at the different Hungry Caterpillar challenges last week. Are you ready for some more?

The Very Hungry Caterpillar Challenges Week 2

Number Detectives Video

Here are the numbers if you wish to print the same ones at home or you could draw/write your own! I added dots as it is important to understand how many each numeral represents.

Caterpillar Numbers

You could play this game with numbers 1-5 or even go beyond 10! It is important that your child has a thorough understanding of numbers 1-10 before moving to higher numbers. Make it more challenging by taking 3 numbers away or even jumbling the numbers around. Maybe they could explain how they worked out which number was missing?

Other Resources for the challenges:

• Sound of the week c/k.

This week is a funny sound. We very gently describe this as same sound, different symbol – Curly c, kicking k. (I wouldn’t go into too much detail about this, the most important thing at this stage is hearing the sound ‘c/k’ in words). You can talk about which symbol to use in words if your child is really keen to know!

• •  Jolly Phonics c/k rhymes:

• • Alphablocks c/k video:

• Caterpillar life cycle actions:
  
• Handa’s Surprise story:

• Butterfly cake recipe:
  • Butterfly cakes
• Colour hunt:
  • Colour hunt
• The Cautious Caterpillar story:

This week, on Friday 8th May, we will be celebrating the 75th anniversary of VE day!  VE day marks the day when fighting ended in Europe at the end of WW2. People were so happy that they had celebrations and parties in their streets. Today, lots of people hold special tea parties and street parties for VE Day (I remember doing this when I was at primary school!) Perhaps on Friday you could have your own VE celebration at home. Here are a few ideas for how you could hold your very own VE Day celebration:

• Have your own tea party in your house, bake some cakes or make sandwiches for your tea party
• Make some decorations, you could make flags or bunting
• Dress up in red, white and blue

 

 

Good luck with The Very Hungry Caterpillar challenges this week Acorn Class! I hope that you have a lovely week. All of your teachers from St Annes have left you a special video message on our Whole School blog. We miss you all very much!

If you are able to, send photos to admin@st-annes.wandsworth.sch.uk with Acorn in the subject line.

Best wishes,

Mrs Eyre

Hi Acorn Class,

I hope you’ve enjoyed sharing ‘The Very Hungry Caterpillar’ this week! I love this story as it can lead to so much fun learning, the illustrations are great too! Illustrations are the pictures inside the story :).

After Easter we were due to have some new little Acorns join our class. They would like to say hello and share some of their learning from home with you.

Hello from Kian! Doctor Kian is enjoying playing hospitals at home and it looks like he is having fun with the play dough too. He is trying really hard with his colouring from his learning pack. Great job Kian!

      

Zayyan says hello! He has been enjoying painting at home and created a beautiful sign to remind people to stay at home. Well done Zayyan!

 

It has been lovely to hear from you this week to see all the fun you are having at home. More busy bees are on their way!

Thomas has been collaborating with his sister Olivia this week as they have done lots of their learning together. Look at their amazing castle they are painting! Its great to see Thomas take part in the Cosmic Yoga and do some very careful colouring too.

    

Rayleigh loves doing her home learning activities each day. She has been working really hard on her number and letter formation. This week she has been tracing ‘b’ for butterfly. Well done Rayleigh!

        

Alma has been enjoying playing at at home and she loves to dress up as a princess. Her painting that she created using different sponges is beautiful and look how tall her sunflower seed has grown already!

         

Mackensie has had a week full of fun! She has created a beautiful box to use as her story box this week and well done for finding so many things from the story Mackensie. The messy play looks like great fun mixing oats and water and she has created the most amazing minibeasts using her own ideas!

        

David is really enjoying doing activities from his home learning pack each day! He has worked really hard to finish the caterpillar repeating patterns and he has been colouring the pictures very carefully.

   

Joseph has some exciting news, his sunflower decided to sprout on day 5! He has done a great job with the different challenges this week. Well done for finding so many different objects from the story! I love the healthy butterflies Joseph has created, I hope they tasted as good as they looked! What a great idea to create your own number puzzles using plates, matching the numerals to quantity.

      

Poppy has had a great week, she says that her favourite thing to do this week was Cosmic Yoga! Poppy has been busy baking cakes for her neighbours and taking part in lots of the activities from her home learning pack. The cakes look delicious Poppy!

        

Wishing you all a lovely weekend, here is another story written by Eric Carle to snuggle up to and share this weekend!

Best wishes,

Mrs Eyre

Dear Acorn Class,

I have left you a little message here, see if you can guess what our new story of the week will be…?

Story Of The Week

Have a look at ‘The Very Hungry Caterpillar Challenges’ for this week below. Your first challenge is to share the story and play the ‘Detectives’ game. Once you have shared the story and collected objects from the story, click here for the ‘Detectives’ game video!

Story Detectives

The Very Hungry Caterpillar Challenges

Here are some resources you may need for the challenges:

• The Very Hungry Caterpillar story.

• The Very Hungry Caterpillar Cosmic Yoga.

• Numberblocks ‘Pattern Palace’.
  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JAVYZoBOZrs

Wishing you all a lovely week, I look forward to hearing about what you get up to!

Don’t forget to send your learning from home to admin@st-annes.wandsworth.sch.uk with Acorns in the subject line if you have a chance.

Best wishes,

Mrs Eyre

Dear Acorn Class

I hope you’ve all had a fun week and enjoyed taking part in some more of the different tiger challenges as well as your own learning and play ideas.

Have you managed to collect your new home learning pack up from school? I am excited for next week as we will begin looking at our new topic…Ready, Steady, Grow! Have you planted your sunflower seed yet? I can’t wait to see pictures of them as they grow!

Our school has been decorated with beautiful balloons to bring some happiness and joy to our community. Maybe you have seen these on one of your daily walks?

This week Olivia has been busy doing some science experiments at home. This looks like so much fun Olivia, well done for remembering to wear your protective goggles too!

 

Thomas has had another busy week at home! He has been helping his sister Olivia to order the life cycle of a bean and it looks as though he has had fun cracking the egg for some baking too.

 

Joseph has thought of lots of fun activities to do at home, he has been taking part in colour sorting and painted some beautiful mini beast stones for the garden. He has also been enjoying snuggle time on the sofa and playing with his marble run.

    

Poppy has been helping to bake some very yummy bread at home. Poppy says that she is missing you all! She has been sharing lots of stories and enjoying cuddles and Cosmic Yoga! Poppy had a great idea for a game, she has been taking turns to collect objects around the house beginning with sounds that she recognises!

      

I think Acorn Class need to give a big clap and a cuddle to the mummies and daddies at home this week. They have been doing so many lovely things with you at home and still have lots of their own work to do too! Make sure you remind them to have a nice cup of tea or coffee and five minutes peace! Here is a little Cbeebies story time of the book ‘Five Minutes Peace’ written by Jill Murphy. These stories always make me smile!

Hope that you have a lovely weekend, I look forward to chatting to you all next week on the phone!

Best wishes,

Mrs Eyre

Hi Acorn Class!

I hope you’ve all enjoyed the weekend.

There are new packs for home learning that can now be picked up from school. These will be available to pick up on Tuesday and Wednesday this week between 9am and 1pm. There will be lots of fun activities based on our new topic ‘Ready, Steady, Grow’!

You will also be able to collect a sunflower seed and equipment to plant it, Mrs Steward has added a new Collective Worship video on our website and school social media with instructions for planting your sunflower seed.

Over the next few weeks I will be calling you all to check in and see how you are all doing. I am looking forward to hearing what you have been up to as I miss you all lots.

I will be uploading another video later on this week so keep your eyes peeled! In the meantime, keep trying to do one of our ‘Tiger Who Came To Tea’ challenges each day!

The Tiger Who Came To Tea Challenge

Check last weeks post for the different resources you may need for some of these challenges!

Best wishes,

Mrs Eyre

Well done to the following Busy Bees from last week, it has been lovely to see all the fun things that you’ve been doing at home. More Busy Bee awards are on their way!

Poppy has made an amazing sound box and managed to find lots of things that begin with ‘e’, Little Kit will be very proud! Poppy has also been very helpful at home with unpacking the shopping, I hope you remembered some tiger food on your list Poppy!

   

Joseph has also remembered to make his sound box, he has managed to find lots of objects with the ‘e’ sound in too, well done Joseph! It looks as though Joseph is being very helpful around the house, making hot cross buns, cleaning and being a kind big brother!

       

Thomas has been working really hard on his letter formation of ‘e’ this week. Well done Thomas for remembering to change your sound box to our new sound of the week. Little Kit is going to be so impressed with all these wonderful sound boxes!

    

Mackensie has been enjoying taking part in some of ‘The Tiger Who Came To Tea’ challenges. She has created a fantastic tiger and the tea party that she has set up looks like so much fun!

      

It is so wonderful to see you all take part in so much play based learning at home, it all looks  like so much fun!

Don’t forget to send your learning from home to admin@st-annes.wandsworth.sch.uk with Acorns in the subject line if you have a chance.

Best wishes,

Mrs Eyre