Hi Acorn Class!

I just want to give a huge congratulation for how well everyone has settled in. Everybody has made me feel so proud!

I understand it can be tricky to settle in, especially after a long break, but everyone has surprised me at how well they’re all doing. They have been amazing at creating relationships with each other and being so brave saying bye-bye to their families in the mornings.

In our first week we have been working on following new routines, getting to know each other, becoming more independent and leaning a few new songs. We have been reading plenty of stories and playing outside enjoying the beautiful weather.

Today was our first Merit assembly. Although it was different to our usual Merit assembly, as we held it in our EYFS bubble, it was still fantastic to be celebrating all of our wonderful achievements again.

Congratulations to Kyia-Rose and Angel for receiving our Merit certificates this week.

Kyia-Rose has been such an amazing friend. Kyia-Rose helped another friend to stand up when he fell off and gave him a cuddle.

Angel has found her voice. She has been fully engaged in the learning classes, using her voice to express her thoughts in front of her peers.

I will update this blog every Friday, so please have a look and be a part of celebrating our class successes. I will also be sending out small celebration postcards and superstar stickers throughout the week to share the everyday achievements the children have made.

Remember, if you have any questions, please contact me via email at [email protected]

Have a wonderful weekend!

Miss Garcia

Hi Acorns,

Here is a little video with some memories of all the fun that we have had in Acorn Class this year. Look out for pictures of yourself and friends too!

Here is a little keepsake for you. Can you spot your name?

End of year keepsake 2020

What a wonderful time in Acorn Class we have had, it has been a very different type of year but you have all done so well and should be very proud of yourselves for all of your amazing learning at Nursery and at home.

Have a lovely summer full of fun, stories, play and imagination!

Best wishes and take care,

Mrs Eyre, Miss Elenwo and Miss Goswell

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Hi Acorns,

Snuggle up and get cosy with your Bumblebears for one of our favourite stories in Acorn Class!

We love sharing stories in Acorn Class! To continue to enjoy reading over the summer you can take part in the library reading challenge. This year the challenge is all online so if you are not a member already it is so easy to become one!

Click here for more information on how to take part in it: Summer Reading Challenge 2020

Don’t forget to check the blog on Friday for a very special end of year post!

Best wishes,

Mrs Eyre

Hi Acorn Class!

I hope you’ve all had a great week and enjoyed the ‘Cave Baby’ story. Here is our story for next week. Our last rhyming story called ‘Room on the Broom’ by Julia Donaldson. Get comfy and enjoy this very special mini film!

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p0102qfj/room-on-the-broom

Here are a few fun Room on the Broom activities that you could do:

Make your very own chocolate breadstick wands:

Chocolate breadstick wand recipe

Have fun making magical potions, all you need is a big bowl to be your cauldron, a mixing spoon and use your imagination to decide what you want to put in your potion:

Create your very own magical wand to keep, here are a few ideas:

Make a rhyming spell book:

Rhyming Cards

Rhyming Spells Booklet

Don’t forget you could give our rhyming trick game a go with your new magical wand that you make!

Well done to this week’s and our last Busy Bees for the year! Also a big well done to Mackensie who collected her 10^th Busy Bee award this week for all of her amazing learning that she’s been doing at home!

Mackensie has been feeling very creative this week. She really enjoyed making her cave for Cave Baby and had more fun with paper mache at home too. She has even had a go at making a salt dough hand decoration, what a super idea Mackensie. Well done!

Joseph has had a lovely little trip to the seaside with his family this week enjoying time outside and on the beach. He has really been challenging himself with his climbing. Super job Joseph! Look at how tall Joseph’s sunflower plant has grown too!

Some of the Acorns in school this week have enjoyed sharing the Cave Baby story and making their own paper mache caves. Here they are making them!

Thank you so much for sending all of your photos from your amazing learning at home this term. You should all be very proud of yourselves and your mummies and daddies too!

Next week have your Bumblebears ready for a special end of term Bumblebear story time so don’t forget to check the blog next week!

Have a wonderful weekend Acorns!

Best wishes,

Mrs Eyre

Hi Acorn Class!

I hope you’ve all had a great week and enjoyed reading ‘Sharing a Shell’. Have you all remembered to pick up your home learning packs from the office?

I have a special story time for you today, it is a different rhyming story this week written by Julia Donaldson. The pictures in this story are drawn by Emily Gravett. Cave Baby is set a very long time ago in the Stone Age! Does anything look different to you? What are they wearing? Where do they live?

Here are a few fun activities you could do next week:

Cave baby enjoyed making marks on stone, use pavement chalk to create marks on the big stones in your garden or out in the park!

Use big pieces of paper and paint or pens to create your own marks like Cave Baby.

Create your own hanging mobile using natural resources such as feathers, sticks or leaves like the one in the story!

Make a cave using paper mache. Recipe for Paper mache below.

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https://www.kidspot.com.au/things-to-do/activity-articles/make-paper-mache-glue/news-story/ceb59e78216f566a15b75932462f274c

Make your own cave at home using sheets. Maybe you could share some rhyming stories in your cave or listen to the Cave Baby story there!

Make some salt dough and create your own different stone shapes such as a bone. You could make your own hand or footprint in the salt dough and leave this to dry hard just like a rock.

Don’t forget you could do one of the activities from here too:

Summer Term Home Learning Activities

Well done to this week’s Busy Bees Kian, Joseph, Mackensie, Poppy and Esteven!

Esteven has been sharing his favourite stories at home. He has really been looking after his stories, turning the pages one at a time and holding them vey carefully. Well done Esteven!

Kian has been practicing writing his name at home, super job Kian!

Mackensie was very thoughtful when it was Father’s Day and made her daddy a delicious red velvet cake, I am sure your daddy loved that Mackensie. Also having fun in the sun with Madison and Hudson!

Joseph has been working really hard practicing his letters this week. He has created an enormous marble run which looks like so much fun! Joseph has also been doing some gardening and has grown some pea pods. They look delicious!

Poppy has some very exciting news…her bean has started to sprout! Well done for taking great care of your bean Poppy. Poppy has been enjoying sharing stories in the garden, what a good idea. I like to read outside too Poppy!

Some of the Acorns in Nursery this week enjoyed cutting and tasting some of the fruit from the ‘Each Peach Pear Plum’ story time.

Look at this amazing name writing! Don’t forget to keep up practicing your name at home if you are going up to Oak Class in September. Keep up doing different activities such as threading to get those finger muscles nice and strong too!

Look at these super Numberblocks in order from smallest to biggest. Well done Acorns!

Keep sending me all of your wonderful home learning to [email protected] with Acorns in the subject line for me to see.

Have a wonderful weekend Acorns!

Best wishes,

Mrs Eyre

Dear Acorns,

I hope that you’ve all had a wonderful weekend! From today, you will be able to pick up a new home learning pack from the school office. Inside you will find:

• Your own Numberblocks threading number line
• A hungry caterpillar – can you help thread the caterpillar a chrysalis?
• Beads, a pipe cleaner and elastic for threading with
• A few bits to create your own Ice Cream Parlour role-play at home

Over the next few weeks and summer, you could try out some of these fun activities:

Summer Term Home Learning Activities

This will be the last Monday home learning post although I still hope to be adding a couple of fun ideas or videos and your home learning updates each Friday!

This week’s story of the week is ‘Sharing a Shell’. Another rhyming story by Julia Donaldson!

Why not use the pictures from your last home learning pack to make some puppets for the story?

Here are some fun activities if you have a printer at home:

https://www.kiddycharts.com/printables/printable-sharing-a-shell-activities/

Could you create your very own seaside artwork? Here are a few ideas!

As the weather is so hot, it could be fun to set up your own Ice Cream Parlour at home. There are a few bits for this in your home learning pack and here is a recipe for play dough. You could make some different coloured play dough to use as the ice cream.

Play Dough Recipe

I would still love to keep hearing from you, send photos from your home learning to [email protected] with Acorns as the subject line. Busy Bee awards will still be awarded until the end of term. How many have you collected so far?

Have a wonderful week Acorns!

Best wishes,

Mrs Eyre

Dear Acorns,

I hope you’ve all had a super week and enjoyed some of the Paper Dolls challenges. It has been ever so hot this week so I hope you’ve found some good ways to keep cool!

Here is a fun rhyming story time that I’ve made for you to join in with, see if you can find the different characters in the pictures! The story is Each Peach Pear Plum written by Janet and Allan Ahlberg which some of you might already know :).

Well done to this week’s Busy Bees:

Reece has been very patient waiting for his sunflower to grow. Its about the same height as you now Reece, well done for taking such great care of it!

Alexander has been enjoying spending lots of time outside with his family in the sunshine and been very excited to see the local wildlife of Wandsworth!

Joseph has been very busy completing the different activities from his home learning pack. Well done Joseph! It looks like Joseph has enjoyed splashing about and keeping cool in the paddling pool this week too!

Well done Poppy for answering nearly all of the answers correctly in the Julia Donaldson quiz. Poppy has also been busy practicing her cutting skills and setting up some fun circuits in the park. It looks almost like Poppy’s very own Sports Day!

From Monday there will be some new and exciting home learning packs for you to collect from the school office. Don’t forget to pick yours up!

I hope that you have a lovely weekend Acorns!

Best wishes,

Mrs Eyre

Hi Acorn Class!

I hope that you all had a great weekend and took care of your daddy on Father’s Day yesterday. I went to visit my mum and dad in their garden who I haven’ seen in a long time. We were all very happy to see each other :).

This week’s story is:

It is a wonderful rhyming story all about letting your imagination run wild! It is written by Julia Donaldson and Rebecca Cobb is the illustrator. Do you remember what an illustrator is? They draw the pictures in the story. I love the pictures in this story!

Here are this week’s home learning challenges:

Paper Dolls Challenges

Resources for this week’s challenges:

• Paper Dolls story

• Jolly Phonics rhyme ‘d’

• Alphablocks ‘d’

• Cosmic Yoga – Tiny the T-Rex

• Ideas for cutting

• Tyrannosaurus Drip story

As we have been sharing so many different stories written by Julia Donaldson, here is a fun little quiz for you. Ask a grown up to read you the questions and see how many you know the answer too!

https://clubs-kids.scholastic.co.uk/quizzes/1661

Have a super week Acorns! I always love to hear from you, send photos from your home learning to [email protected] with Acorns as the subject line.

Best wishes,

Mrs Eyre

Dear Acorns,

I hope you’ve all had a really lovely week! Did you manage to guess who the different Acorn and Oak teachers were? Here are the answers!

Mrs Long

Miss Elenwo

Mrs Eyre

Miss Hoban

Here is a photo of my bean, the stalk is getting so long that I have added a stick inside the pot so that it can continue to grow upwards. Mine might need planting inside a bigger pot soon!

How are your beans doing? I would love to see photos of your beans as they grow too!

Well done to this week’s Busy Bees!

Poppy has worked  extremely hard on mastering this week’s yoga challenge ‘the baby pose’ which is her baby sister’s favourite! She has also created a beautiful card for Father’s Day. Your daddy is very lucky to be receiving such a beautiful card on Sunday Poppy!

David has been working so hard completing lots of the different activities from his home learning pack. He managed to match the baby animals to their grown up animal and has completed some super number problems. It is great to see David enjoying puzzles too, they look really fun and like a good challenge too!

Joseph saw a picture of a firefly in a book which inspired Joseph to create one of his own! Joseph has done an amazing job at creating his own Numberblocks at home and even managed to order them from smallest to biggest. Its great to see that Joseph is helping mummy and daddy with the jobs at home too :)!

On Sunday it is Father’s Day, here is a fun little story about a daddy bear trying to get some sleep. The story is called ‘Peace at Last’ and it is written by Jilly Murphy. You could snuggle up with your daddy or someone else in your family to watch this story!

Have a wonderful weekend Acorns. Don’t forget to check the blog on Monday for some new home learning ideas and to find out what our next story of the week will be!

Best wishes,

Mrs Eyre