This month we had the honour of having Israeli Ambassador, Her Excellency, Mrs. Tamar Samash as part of our Story Teller project. Tamar brought two special stories from her personal library, one about learning to lose and another about being kind to your neighbors and accepting them for who they are. The children were mesmerized […]
As part of our goal to help children discover new cultures and countries we celebrated St Patrick’s Day with traditional Irish music, dance, symbols and stories. The children wore green and all the activities were based on the colour green, leprechauns, Irish symbols, Irish music and dancing!
School Year participated in an Irish dance workshop with […]
We celebrated the 15th anniversary of the day that British Sign Language became officially recognized by the British government. We use Early Years Sign Language in both our nurseries from Baby Acorns onwards; at first signing helps ease frustration for babies before they are able to communicate all their needs verbally, but we continue its […]
In Acorns we value our relationship with parents as the partnership that we have with them helps each child reach their full potential. This month we celebrated International Women’s Day in the nursery with all our mums. Thank you to our partners: Toman Diet, Blu Party, Beatrix Color, Bio Aleea, Belfiore Cosmetics, Nirvana Yoga, Maruca, […]
This month we had one of our most popular events in the nursery: Book Week! The message of World Book Day (1st March) is that reading is a fun activity, that there are many different types of books such as stories, information, magazines, dictionaries etc and that reading about a favourite topic leads to happiness […]
As part of the topic People Who help Us, we invited parents to come and talk to the children about their job.
Sorin Matei (Teodor’s dad) talked about being an Installation Engineer by making a very interesting link with our elementary needs (washing, eating, drinking) and how we can use them when making a Dream House. […]
One of our Story Tellers was Mario DeMezzo, TedEx speaker and former Director of Habitat for Humanity. Mario is an example of kindness and patience, not only did he read a story, but he answer to children’s questions (and there were a lot) and even showed them some magic tricks.
In Acorns we promote culticulturalism and we make it our objective to help children learn about different countries, their languages, customs and culture.
Thus, we celebrated Chinese New Year. The children listened to chinese stories, learned about their special alphabet, played with traditional toys and tried eating with chop sticks.
Early Explorers went on a trip to […]
Another fun experience for Early Explorers was their trip to FAN Courier headquarters. They were able to see the entire process that parcels and the letters go through: where they are stored, how they are sorted and how delivery vans collect them.
Thank you, FAN Courier, for your warm welcome and the goodie bags that the […]
Early Explorers enjoyed meeting celebrity Chef Foa, who was their Story Teller! He explained that his real name is Florin but when he was a child, his brother couldn’t say his name properly and since then everyone calles him Foa! As well as reading My Island Adventure, he explained to the children that he decided […]
