Just some of the activities, experiences and learning going on in Nursery.

There has been an invasion of Pirates in Nursery this week!!!

The children have been role-playing with the Pirate Ships. To extend their play Mrs Hardie supported the children to make pirate hats and telescopes.

 

As part of our Health and Wellbeing focus, we have been learning about, ‘Where our food comes from?’ Abi Brown has been helping her dad take in the Harvest in the Combine Harvester. She brought in photos and wheat to show the other children. Using the story of ‘The Little Red Hen’ we discussed how wheat turns into flour. The children were really excited to get to make their own bread roll.

 

Baking

After spotting some apple trees on our walk to the woods. One of the children asked if we could make something with apples, so we made apple crumble. Thanks to Mrs Craig for supplying the apples. The children are really enjoying baking and have had an interest in Ice-cream this week. We made a healthy Banana Ice-cream with frozen bananas, milk and honey, which Mrs Mackie donated. The honey came from Lyall’s Aunties Beehive. When we asked the children what they thought of it there was lots of thumbs up and yummy comments.

Helicopter Stories (Using our Imagination to create and act out our own stories – Literacy and Drama)

Mrs Keal introduced Helicopter Stories to the children this week. It is a great activity to develop the children’s creativity and imagination We started off by children acting out stories that other children had come up with. The children were fairy ghosts, monsters, spiders, crocodiles, birds, trees and we even had someone be the lightening!

Staff will now scribe the children’s own stories, which we will act out at Storytime.

A story shared by one of the children this week:

The Butterfly who eated the Monster

“The Butterfly goes into the woods and wakes up the monster. Then the Monster eated the Butterfly and the Butterfly hated the Monster.”

The End”

Woodland Wednesday

This week the children have been looking for signs of Autumn. They were collecting leaves and identifying the trees they come from.

Next week they want to build fairy houses in the woods.