During the nursery year we will be visting the Lochee Library in our groups several times. We will walk to Lochee and meet Joan the librarian. She will be reading different stories and singing songs with us. We will be mading craft models there too. We will get a chance to look at the books in the children’s section and choose some to take back to read in nursery. Joan has said she will let us have a turn using her bleep machine and date stamp. Anyone can join the library, all you need to do is ask to join and you will be given a library card.” ABC and beyond is our early years literacy program we are introducing this year.It builds on and extends our literacy studies from last year. We choose a book to look closely focusing on different aspects in more detail such as conversation, vocabulary, story comprehension, language of learning, print knowledge and phonological awareness. This term we willl be focusing on new vocabulary by picking out 5 words to discuss. we will be using props, drama, songs, pictures, evplainations and art/craft to help reinforce these words. Our first story is called Bears Snores On- a story about a bear who is hibernating while other animals sneak in his cave and have a party. Our focus words are: hibernate, cave, nibble, flutter and slumbering. If you use these words at home too to reinforce them we would really appreciate your help and support.
Thanks to all our very generous nursery families, we raised £1300 to put towards nursery funds. Thank you to eveyone for your all help and support over the last year. Happy Holidays!!!
The anti-pre nursery children will be visting Dudhope Park over the course of this week. AM children children are leaving at 9;15 back around 11am and PM children are laeving 1:15 and back at 3:00pm. The boys and girls had great fun at the park yesterday.
The nursery boys and girls had lots of fun taking part in the nurseriy’s obstacle race fundraiser. The had to complete 5 laps of the course. All the boys and girls did really well.
The charity PEEP – Parents Early Education Partnership – was set up in 1995 to work with parents and carers to enhance their children’s learning and development from birth, improving their life chances.
The evidence-based Learning Together programme supports all parents to create the best start for their children by making the most of everyday learning opportunities – listening, talking, playing, singing and sharing stories and books. Spending time with their parents and carers in these ways helps children become confident communicators and active learners.PEEP is about valuing and building on what parents already do:
– sharing ideas from parents, practitioners, the PEEP programme and wider research;
– understanding why particular activities help children’s later development.
For instance, one of the main predictors of how well children will get on at school is the number of words they hear in their first two years of life – so talking and sharing books, stories and songs from birth help enormously. And playing with sand or playdough is fun but it also helps develop children’s finger control, which makes it easier to write with a pencil later on. Understanding why something is beneficial makes it likely that people will fit it in more often.
The PEEPS group in Law Nursery is running for 4 weeks, week are now on week 4. The parents have a chat with Linda, while the nursery children have snack. Next parents and children take part in a planned activity together e.g making a placemat, puppet, etc. Then each child has a diary to record their time at the PEEPS group. This is done through dissussions and photographs. We finish off the session with stories and songs. At the end of each session parents and children are given a follow up activity to do at home together.
Here is a link to examples of activities covered in a PEEPS group. Cut and paste the link into your internet browser.
One of our tadpoles has grown his front and back legs.
Young Frog, or Froglet
By 12 weeks, the tadpole has only a teeny tail stub and looks like a miniature version of the adult frog. Soon, it will leave the water, only to return again to laymore eggs and start the process all over again!
All the pre-school children had a great time at Crombie on their Summer trip. We played games, went aminalteering (we had to follow clues to find animal/bird pictures), made arts /crafts and played in the play-park. We had a lovely picnic at lunchtime-sandwiches, sausage rolls, little sausages, fruit, cake and juice.
Some of our tadpole have grown their back legs.Our caterpillars have spun their cocoons and are tucked up inside.
We ordered caterpillars which have now arrived. They are in a little tub with some special food. We looked at them with a magnifying glasses. We read the story of the Very Hungry Caterpillar.
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