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Chinese New Year

Traditional music greeted the children in the morning, followed by dancing, investigating Chinese resources such as fans, chopsticks and noodles.

Baby Acorns celebrated Chinese New Year by making a dragon, with all the children lining up under the parachute and then walking around the room and they made Chinese blossom pictures. To stimulate intellectual development, they played […]

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Acorns Book Week

Acorns Book Week is one of our most popular and successful annual events!

During Book Week we joined with other nurseries and schools around the world in celebrating World Book Day – a celebration of authors, illustrators, books and (most importantly) of reading. The main aim of World Book Day is to encourage children to explore the […]

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Hellen Battelley: Introducing children to music. When should I start?

When is the perfect moment to introduce your child to music?

Babies are used to music, their mother’s heart beat being the first rhythm they know since they were in the womb. We can say that each child has a natural way to react to music, that’s why its very important to be exposed […]

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January 2017 in Acorns Aviației

On Australia Day, Shiny Stars children in Acorns Aviatiei created aboriginal art by colorful making finger print on stones, made their own kangaroo pouches and watched educational clips about Australian animals.

Baby Acorns painted kangeroos on vertical surfaces while learning about the color of this Australian animal.

On Penguin Awareness Day, children from both groups played in […]

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Australia National Day

Last week, we celebrated Australia National Day.

It was so exciting to discover this fascinating world of kangoroos and koala bears. Shiny Stars decorated boomerangs, Rainbows created an aboriginal art while Early Explorers created an Aborginal mask and a kookaburra (native Australian bird).

Our special guests presented us the aboriginal bamboo instrument called didgeridoo and we even had […]

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January Story Tellers

Every Wednesday, the children in Early Explorers receive an important and exciting visit of Acorns friends who come to read one interesting story to the children. They are so excited to listen to the stories and to meet new persons every week, people who play important roles in our society.

Dorin Pena, CEO at Cisco Romania […]

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Penguin Awareness Day

The children in Acorns Nursery love these amazing birds  and they had the chance to learn about this serious topic through fun activities.

For Penguins Awareness Day, children were invited to bring a penguin toy from home, to wear a T-shirt with penguins on it or to bring a penguin related book. Early Years learnt about […]

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Winnie the Pooh Day

On 16 January, the children celebrated Winnie the Pooh Day!

This is the anniversary of the author A. A. Milne and the children are invited to bring a Winnie the Pooh, Piglet or Eeyore toy to the nursery for activities about these famous characters. Did you know that Winnie the Pooh began his life in stories […]

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A New Year and a New Term Has Started

Toys was the topic for this first month of 2017 in Acorns Nursery, a theme close to the children’s hearts. Children brought in the nursery the new toys they received for Christmas, to show and share with others.

Baby Acorns sang Miss Polly had a Dolly and Teddy Bear Turn Around, they learnt the signs for these […]

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Acorns Aviatiei Christmas Party

Our event started with both children and parents enjoying a party snack and had the chance to spread Christmas cheer.

Next, the children and parents enjoyed Christmas related activities: they decorated Christmas trees with a selection of glitter and sparkling resources, they made their own Santa masks, they danced to jolly Christmas music and sang special […]

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