Broomhill Butterflies Nursery 2015

Hello everyone, we hope you have had a lovely weekend!

Last week we enjoyed a trip to Mrs Yule’s allotment to help her with some planting! The children helped to plant some strawberry plants and potatoes, Mrs Yule explained to the boys and girls how important it is to look after the allotment and what sort of things she likes to grow! The children all really enjoyed the experience, a big thank you to Mrs Yule for having us!

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Apologies for not posting, we have had a few technical difficulties but they are hopefully resolved now!

The butterflies have been enjoying lots of opportunities to play outside this week, even though the weather has not been very nice we have still had fun!

We said goodbye to our friend Ziggy the alien this week. Ziggy was visiting our nursery to teach the boys and girls all about road safety and staying safe outside. The children have loved having Ziggy in the nursery, but it is time for him to return to his own planet. Before he left, Ziggy gave the children their own certificate for crossing the road and being safe when walking to the woodies. Ziggy was very impressed with how safe and sensible the butterflies were!

Finally we have all been on ‘worm watch’ this week! The children have been using the magnifying glasses to observe our wriggly worms! They are getting bigger already!

These are some of the photos from our trip to the university.  We loved our trip,and really learned a lot about music and imstruments.  We have started drawing pictures for a display so look out for these and we are also going to make and send a thank you card to Mrs Black and the music students.

We have been planting seeds this week and writing labels for them. We will water them every day and check their growth.  When they are big enough we will measure them.  We are also doing an experiment with celery and food colouring to see what happens to it-Emily thinks the celery will change colour! We will check it every day to see! We have also placed carrot tops in some water to observe what happens to them, Melissa thinks they will grow, Erma said that leaves might shoot out of the top!

Hello everyone! Welcome back we hope you all had a lovely holiday! Here are some photos of all the fun things we have been doing to learn about Easter and spring!

This week we have been role playing in our campsite and we made a den in the nursery garden. We also made a den at the woodies and enjoyed stories inside it. We love tents and dens!!

Roland and Christina were wonderful bakers this week- the banana bread was delicious!

On Friday we were “ready for action” for Sport Relief and had a great time on our obstacle course. We had to run, climb, balance, roll, jump and crawl. We are developing our spatial awareness and ability to move and control our bodies well.

Hello everyone, we hope you have had a fab week!

This week we enjoyed learning how to move and control our bodies and share space using Sticky Kids! We had to find our own space and listen to the actions in the songs. There we lots of wiggles and jiggles and the children had great fun as you can see!

Our nursery library is well established now and the children are very much enjoying being library helpers! This week our helpers were Christina and Emily, they did a great job! Please remember to take your library books along on Fridays so your children can choose a new one!

Have a lovely weekend everybody!

Hello everyone! We hope you have had a good week.

This week we have been busy making some special cards for our mummies to celebrate Mother’s Day on Sunday! We hope you like them!

We also enjoyed using the water tray to learn about floating and sinking. Our student Kim helped the children carry out the experiment!

On friday we had we had a visit from one of our Primary 6 classes for some paired reading. The P6’s read our library books to the nursery children.

Finally we are looking for parents suggestions for our Tuesday Taster. We have used some of your suggestions already for our taster next week. If you have any ideas please jot them down on the sheet provided, we really appreciate your feedback!

This week the children noticed a problem in nursery- some people were forgetting to wash their hands and some people didn’t want to! So we had a discussion about how to solve this problem and decided to remind each other to wash hands and to make some posters.  We are also doing an experiment with bread. We all touched one piece of bread and then sealed it in a bag, then we used tongs to take out another piece and seal it without touching it. When we were spea about what might happen to the bread Daisy said it will go rotten and Clara thinks the piece of bread we all touched will have more germs on it because we have germs on our hands.  We are waiting patiently to see what happens, come and have a look!

We made some frosty pictures using paint, glitter and marbles. It was quite tricky to begin with but we had great fun trying and soon got the hang of wiggling the tray!

Hi everyone, we hope you have had another good week!

Its been another eventful week at nursery for the butterflies! On Monday we celebrated Chinese New Year  by making our own yummy noodles for snack and mark making our own Chinese letters! In our water tray we had some rice, bowls and chopsticks which were tricky to get the hang of!

We have have also been learning all about Valentine’s Day and why we celebrate it! We read a story about Saint Valentine and made our very own valentines cards at nursery! We hope you like them!

We are excited to welcome back Miss Buckley to nursery next week after her time away on placement, the children are all very excited to see her!

Don’t forget! There is no nursery on Monday, Tuesday or Wednesday! We hope you all have a lovely long weekend!

Hi everyone! Hope you have all had a good week!

It’s been another busy week for the butterflies! On Tuesday we got out to play on the wheeled toys for the first time this year! The children were all very excited and despite the wind we had lots of fun!

Our Tuesday taster this week was lychees, many of the children liked the taste but we’re not very sure what it tasted like!

” It’s a bit like yoghurt.” Sienna

“I’m not very sure what it tastes like!” Lennon

” It’s like grapes!” Melissa

” I think it has juice inside it.” Daisy

On Wednesday we had great fun making mud pies at the woodies! We also did a spot of bird watching with our binoculars!

We have also began have also began to look at Chinese New Year, the children have been enjoying exploring our interest table and on Thursday our student Kim told the children the story of the animals in the Chinese zodiac!

We would also also like to wish Laura and Daniel both a very happy birthday as they have both celebrated their birthdays this week!