We have been having lots of fun using the ‘website of the week’ in nursery this week.  We have been learning how to correctly sequence numbers.  You can click here to try the website.  Try starting with sequencing to 5 before progressing onto sequencing to 10.  The sequencing to 10 section offers a significant challenge as it does not include all of the numbers to 10 – many of us have found this quite tricky in nursery.  We have really enjoyed playing this game this week.  Older children and siblings could try some parts of the game too.

Many of the children will have ILD uploads related to this.

We have been celebrating Chinese New Year this week.  We have been making Chinese dragons, writing Chinese letters, making Chinese lanterns, dressing up in traditional Chinese clothes, playing Chinese themed maths games and eating Chinese food.  A highlight for us all was doing the dragon dance in the gym hall.  Please see the ILD’s for a video of this.

Today we enjoyed looking at videos and photographs of ourselves on our individual ILD profiles on the touch TV.  We were delighted to see ourselves on the big screen and spoke with our friends about what we had been doing in the photographs and videos.  Many of us regularly said, ‘I just want to look at myself’ and ‘I love myself the best so want to just see my one!’  🙂

Please involve your children in the ILD process as much as possible by sharing the photos and videos that we upload with them at home.  Next week we hope to launch the new parent app for the ILDs which will enable your children to be much more involved in the ILD’s.

We continue to be very interested in ice both indoors and outdoors.  This week we have been making our own ice in a variety of containers and experimenting with it in the water tray.  We have been using the words ‘melt’, ‘ice’ ‘frozen’ ‘cold’ and ‘hot’ in our play.  We have been finding out how we can make the ice melt quickly by adding hot or cold water, bashing it and squeezing it in our hands.

We enjoyed celebrating Rabbie Burn’s birthday last week!  We tried haggis, neeps and tatties for snack, made tartan and took part in Scottish country dancing.  We have also been dancing to Scottish music  with our friends.  Please look on the ILD’s to see this in action!

Finlay’s Granny, Granny Bee came to visit us in her nursery.  Granny Bee keeps bees and Finlay was eager for her to tell the boys and girls all about it.  We all listened intently and were eager to find out about bee-keeping.  She even let us try on some special parts of her bee outfit that keep her safe.  The nursery staff hope that this visit will make us less worried when seeing bees in the garden!

A huge thank you to Finlay and Granny Bee! 🙂

On Wednesday the nursery will be celebrating Burns day.  Children are welcome to wear tartan to nursery on this day.  They’ll look braw! 🙂

Thank you!

The afternoon boys and girls were delighted to have a visit from Alec’s Grandma on Wednesday.  She played the piano and helped the children learn lots of new songs.  Alec was very proud to have her at nursery.  Thank you very much Alec and Alec’s Grandma!

We have been showing an interest in the changing weather outside particularly when it is icy and frosty.  We continue to enjoy playing in all weathers every day and have been eager to collect ice when playing.  We will be doing a mini topic on weather over the next few weeks.

The boys and girls decided that they would like to turn the role-play area into a supermarket.  They have been having lots of fun exploring how shops can help us and have created their own dramatic stories.  The role-play shop has naturally encouraged the development of lots of early numeracy and literacy skills with the children involved in lots of counting and writing.  They even made their own signs and prices for the shop! 😀