For the first part of this term our topic will be 'Favourite Stories'.  We would like to make a display in the classsroom of all the children's favourite books.  Could you please send into school a photograph of your child reading their favourite book, so that we can add it to our display.

Happy New Year, we hope you have all had a good break and are looking forward to the term ahead.  For the first half of this term we will be focusing on our favourite stories.  This week we have been:

• Reading the story 'Cant You Sleep Little Bear?' and learning all about winter.
• Thinking about light and dark sources of light.  
• Making lanterns.
• Learning about looking after birds and other animals in winter.
• Making monkey nut strings and cakes for the birds.
• Talking about winter clothes and investigating how to keep warm.
• Investigating ice.

This week we have been very busy getting ready for Christmas, we have been:

• telling the Christmas story in a variety of ways.
• sewing Christmas stockings.
• making and icing Christmas biscuits.
• singing Christmas songs.
• making food to leave out for the reindeer.
• having a Christmas party and a Christmas lunch.

We would like to wish everyone a Merry Christmas and we look forward to seeing you all in the New Year.

Here is a copy of the Autumn Curriculum Newsletter for Acorns -  a busy term I'm sure you will agree!

Thank you to everyone who came to the 'Meet the teachers' session after school, for those of you that weren't able to make it please find attached the documents that were given out. Can I also please remind everyone that on Friday we are celebrating  European Languages Day and Acorns will be focusing on Holland.  Could the children please wear red, white and blue (the colours of the Dutch flag) and if they have anything typically Dutch, please could they bring it into school to share with the rest of the class.

We hope you all had a lovely summer and are looking forward to your first year at school. For the first part of this half term our theme will be 'All About Me'.  We will then move on to 'Our Senses' and will enjoy lots of exciting activities.
This week we have been:

• talking about our likes and dislikes and our favourite things.
• Learning to use our classroom resources.
• Painting pictures of ourselves and making salt dough faces.
• Making patterns and mark-making on a small and large scale.

This half term we have a new theme - 'On the Move', this week we have been:

• Talking about journeys we have been on.
• Collecting the names of different forms of transport to make a wordbank.
• Going on a train journey in our new role-play train.
• Learning about transport now and in the past.
• Making a simple map of our journey to school.
• Moving like different types of transport.