by Ali | Nov 22, 2024 | Acorns Room, News, Rooms
Last week we had some tasty vegetables provided to us from The Children’s Kitchen. A city-wide project here in Bristol that focuses on encouraging children to explore, cook and eat fresh food. The children chose to investigate spring onions, mushrooms, lettuce and...
by Ali | Oct 28, 2024 | Acorns Room, News, Rooms
This week in Acorns, we have been exploring and investigating a pumpkin! We cut the top off the pumpkin and encouraged the Acorns to explore the stringy insides and seeds with their hands and spoons. This prompted a lot of conversation and laughter about how it felt...
by Ali | Sep 27, 2024 | Acorns Room, Rooms
This week in Acorns, we have been exploring clay. Clay is a great open-ended natural material that is perfect for young children; it provides them with endless opportunities and possibilities. By exploring the clay with their hands by twisting, squashing, and...
by Tom Walbrin | Sep 20, 2024 | Acorns Room, Rooms
The Acorns created a beach in the sandpit! They found a big pipe and began by pouring water down it into a big hole that they dug at the bottom. Before long the children decided to sit in the sand with their feet in the hole waiting in anticipation for the water to...
by Tom Walbrin | Sep 13, 2024 | Acorns Room, Rooms
We have been getting the ground ready for our new allotment in Acorns’ Garden. We worked together digging the soil using tools to help develop our physical skills and coordination. This has also been a good opportunity for the older Acorns to help the new Acorns...
by Ali | Sep 6, 2024 | Acorns Room, Rooms
We have enjoyed welcoming our returning children back to Acorns this week. We have been practising our fine motor skills by chopping fruit and making smoothies. We’ve been mark-making on a huge box that our water tray arrived in, and we have been learning...
