Langland Community School

Hello and welcome to Aspiring Acorns.

It's been lovely to meet our new children starting school for the first time.

The children had a fantastic start in nursery class this week. Everyone enjoyed exploring their new classroom, the children had ago with lots of activities and shared the resources with their new friends. We had a great time outdoors playing with the water and in the mud kitchen.

We look forward to seeing you all next week. :-)

This week Aspiring Acorns have been enjoying our story of the week, ‘The Elephant and the Bad Baby by Elfrida Vipont’. We are learning how to sit nicely to listen to the story and talking about using our manners.

Our focus this week was building on the personal, social and development skills. We have been involved in lots of role play with our peers and exchanging language.

We've all been amazing at learning to line up 'The Langland Way' and have been  practicing all week to do this. We are very proud of ourselves. 

Well Done Acorns. 

This week Aspiring Acorns have been enjoying our story of the week, ‘Elmer by David McKee’. We focused on all the different colours we could see on Elmer.

This week we created some Elmer elephants, from our class story of the week. Acorns enjoyed using different coloured tissue paper and glue to make a collage Elmer elephant. We finished off the activity with The Rainbow Song.

Acorns also took part in celebrating The European Day of Languages. The children came to school in clothes to represent their choice of a country.

It’s so lovely to see all the children settling into Acorn class and are now grasping our class routine.

This week we have started a new class story ‘The little Red Hen’ and will be learning lots of things around it until the half term break.

The children were surprised to find a new story on Monday morning and were all happy to explore our new story and got stuck in straight away.

We really enjoy working together to gather lots of ‘Red’ items. We found red cushion, bricks, shapes, cars, trains and more talked about them at circle time. We looked at the names of each item and how we use it.            

Today we had some Paramedics visiting us with an Ambulance. We got to look inside the Ambulance with the Paramedics and try on their helmets and coats. It was very fascinating, we learnt lots from the visit.

Thank you, Paramedics

We had an extremely busy this week with the Mosaic Artist visiting us too.

We created an Ambulance mosaic with the Artists with lots of colours. It was very exciting to see an Ambulance all bright and beautiful.

Thank you to the Artists for helping us achieve this.

Acorns have had a wonderful time learning around the story ‘The Little Red Hen’, we have looked at lots of different objects the hen uses in the story and have been practicing some nursery rhymes.

We are super excited to share what else we’ve been doing this week. Aspiring Acorns have had a trip to the Pet Shop. 

On another day, Acorns made little Red Hens to celebrate the story for their display. We got very creative with using paper plates, glue, red wool, googly eyes and a yellow/orange paper.

Please watch the video below. Thank you

This week’s focus was learning about Harvest Festival. We looked at how foods are harvested and visited our school Harvest table to place some donations onto it.

We were delighted to make bread this week, just like the character from our class story ‘The Little Red Hen’. We started with gathering all the ingredients from our list. Then we began to mix the flour, knead it, shape it and at the end bake the bread…it smelt delicious.

First, we placed flour, quick action yeast, sunflower oil and water onto the bowl. Then we mixed it all together.

Then when the dough was ready, Acorns all kneaded their own dough for five minutes and left the dough to raise a little.

Once the bread had risen beautifully and was ready to eat as it came out of the oven. It smelt delicious! yum yum!

Aspiring Acorns took their bread home to share with their families.

This week, we learnt about the Hindu festive Diwali and created some Rangoli Patterns! Acorns drew lots of beautiful patterns outside the Early Years front entrance to welcome all the children and their parents. We worked together and used all the different coloured chalks to draw the Rangoli patterns.

Acorns also made Divas in stages. First, we made Divas from salt dough and then we left them to dry for a day. When they were ready, we decorated them using exciting paints and glitter.

The children enjoyed looking at several traditional indian saris, with different colours, patterns fabrics.

Acorns were super excited to try on the sari, look at the petticoat and a choli, which goes with a sari as one outfit.

We were proud to create the Halloween props, made with tissues, felt pen, cello tape and sticks. The cute little ghosts were used for singing and counting nursery rhymes.

Welcome back everyone, and hope you all had a great week off. We immediately got busy, as we have a new story this second half of the term 'Rosie's Walk' by Pat Hitchens.

We made firework pictures, used icing sugar on the black paper and dripped the different colours onto the paper and watched the colours spread. We finished our artwork by adding some sparkly glitter to the picture, we found creating the whole fireworks scene very interesting. 

After the firework pictures, we had time to fit in some fireworks dance to the classical music. We used the ribbons to go up, down, sideways and behind us while dancing.

This week the children have also been looking at the seasonal photos of our Acorn tree outdoors. We’ve been busy with collecting the autumn leaves and enjoyed scooping them up into containers. We listened to the sounds the leaves made under our feet, with a crisp and a crumble on the ground...they were noisy.

Acorns have been extremely productive this week with making poppies to mark our soldiers on Remembrance Day. We watched the King place a wreath onto The Cenotaph. We talked about what happens on Remembrance Day and why?  

We immediately began to paint our poppies, during the activity... we also learnt how to share all our resources well, while painting their own poppies for a wreath to go onto nursery The Cenotaph.

When all our poppies were dry, Acorns acted out putting the poppies onto the Cenotaph at school.

We’ve all been very lucky to be visited by the General Practitioner and her team. We learnt about our bodies and how the doctor's instruments are used. The Doctor talked about each instrument and what it’s used for and how it tells them information about your body.

It was very exciting to have ago with the doctor’s instruments on our friends, teachers and the doctors.

Acorn class learning about the doctor’s instruments and what part of the body it measures or helps. 

Children sharing the doctor's bag and mark making the results.

We kicked off the week with a cosy storytime, reading ‘Rosie’s Walk’. The children labelled the other objects, they could see in the yard, as they watched Rosie Walk calmly around the farm, completely unaware of the fox’s attempts to catch her!

We are so excited...Acorns have now leant how to sit beautifully during the carpet time. Well Done Acorns. 

During the week, we have also carried on with learning about the characteristics of a hen and a fox.

The children have been so busy sharing the books with their friends and repeating phases together using the book, puppets or the small world props.

We were super excited to learn about the world around them and how to adapt to it by playing in the snow. They learnt that they needed to change their behaviour outside while making footprints in the snow, because it was slippery.

We listened to the new sounds we could hear outdoors, ‘Crunch! Crunch! Crunch! While walking over the ice on the ground.

In our mud kitchen, we had something different than mud today to mix and stir...there was some exciting snow!

We had so much fun!

This week, we’ve continued to use the phrases from the story ‘Rosie’s Walk’ while outdoors. We’ve been walking around, across over and under the objects in the garden…just like Rosie the hen.

We also left some water outdoor overnight in different containers and went back the next morning to investigate and we found some lots of ice.

The children examined each container. It was very exciting, we just had to get to work straight away. We pretended the some ice were tarts. 

We also worked together with our friends, to choose tools and took turns to crush the ice into pieces to make some milk shakes.

The Acorns have been super excited this week, as we’ve had a special visitor appeared in the classroom. During circle time, we talked about, "who is The Elf?" and "where did he come from?"

We found The Elf had been up to something different every morning, and we enjoyed discovering it. This meant Acorns had to write letters every day to Santa to let him know, what was happening in the Acorns classroom.

The children have also been looking at Christmas things, children understand that each material has unique characteristics, and the exploration gives them an idea of how different each material are.

The children have also been building on their sharing skills with their friends. We have been joining our train track together.

This week, the children have been very busy making props for our Christmas Performance. We were very creative using paints, glue, wool brushes and different size boxes.

Acorns have been learning the colour ‘Silver’ and have been busy gathering sliver shiny objects to go onto our colour table.

Acorn children have been also started their festive cards…we love bright Christmas lights. The cards look so beautiful. Well done children.

We’ve been enjoying looking at Christmas books. It’s very exciting to discover lots of Christmas things happening on each page.

We’ve had so much a fun this term, learning about different facts about a hen and a fox. Acorns will be learning a new story in the Spring term, so we would like to say bye to Rosie’s Walk.

During learning time on the carpet, we have been learning the colour ‘Gold’ and had gathered gold shiny objects to put into the middle of the circle to examine each objects closely.

It’s super exciting as the Christmas holidays is approaching very fast upon us. We enjoyed talking about the Christmas the festive items we saw in the photos.

Acorns have been extremely busy learning the Christmas songs and actions for the Carol Concert. We all were dressed up for the performance and we had lots of cheers with smiles in the audience.

Acorns wish you all a Merry Christmas are looking forward to seeing you all in the new year.