World Teachers Day is an annual UNESCO event, which aims to draw attention to the important role that teachers have all over the world.
In Acorns, we have celebrated Teachers Day in various ways over past years – with a special cake for the team, unique T shirts bearing a special message and other tokens of […]
Summer Show in Acorns Nursery are planned by the teachers according to the children’s interests and qualities and they are good opportunities for the children to share with their parents some of the things that they have learnt during the year, through story, dance and song – all in a happy and relaxed summer atmosphere […]
We enjoyed so much celebrating nature together with the occasion of The Green Fair, when all parents were invited to take part at the “green” activities along with their children! Thank you so much for your participation!
All the last week’s activities focused on the environment and “green” issues, in order to help the children connect with the […]
A few weeks ago, we celebrated Find a Rainbow Day and the children painted rainbows, learned how to perfectly mix colors and found out when we can see rainbows in the sky!
In creative, Shiny Stars painted wonderful rainbows using grass, sticks and leaves instead of brushes.
The Rainbows group made a wonderful rainbow heart and created an ‘ice art race’ by […]
Children and parents enjoyed a wonderful party in the nursery which began with a special Christmas party snack and then continued with festive activities. The children and their guests enjoyed physical games such as throwing balls into a cut out tree, dancing with balls, ribbons and pom-poms, playing with pretend snow or red and green […]
“A Tale of a Shiny Christmas” was the name of the story that the children prepared for their parents. Shiny Stars had to convince a grumpy little princess to love Christmas!
They sung and danced to their favorite songs and had fun pretending to be penguins, reindeer, snowflakes and bells, telling everyone why they love Christmas! The […]
Rainbows began December by revising the names of the seasons and the colours, sounds, weather associated with each one. They read the story “Froggy gets dressed” about a frog that gets ready to go out in the snow.
We watched clips about frogs hibernating and talked about other animals that go to sleep during winter time. […]
Baby Acorns started December by singing songs such as “Jingle bells”, “Decorate the Christmas tree”, “S-a-n-t-a”, “Hello reindeer”.
They practiced related vocabulary and signs, and they were introduced to the Christmas theme by looking at the books “Peppa’s Christmas” and “Little Duck’s first Christmas”. The children explored Christmas tree decorations, they talked about their colours and […]
One of our traditions is to begin November with this special day celebrated by British people around the world. Baby Acorns had a lot of fun making fireworks footprint art using glitter, paint and happy feet.
Shiny Stars created their own Bonfire display using words such as boom, splash, explode, firework – a good opportunity for […]
