Friday 25th January was Robert Burn’s birthday and to celebrate in the 2’s we baked him a cake, well a clootie dumpling to be precise. The children had lots of fun weighing out ingredients, cracking eggs, mixing the mixture and smelling the different spices that go into the dumpling. Whilst our dumpling was cooking we had a traditional Burns super of vegetarian haggis, neeps and tatties. It was delicious. We ending our busy session by listening to poems by Burns and singing some Scottish favourites, like “You canna shove your grannie off the bus!!”.

Every day we count how many friends we have in nursery. Working together we have to try and find the correct number to put on the board. The children in the 2’s are developing their numeracy skills through this activity and are demonstrating could number recognition and counting skills. Counting and pointing out numbers is a good way of developing early numeracy skills. Examples of activities in daily life are counting the number of stairs, pointing out the numbers on the bus, using your fingers to touch count. Numbers are all around us.

The morning boys have been taking advantage of the large grassed area in the school grounds to master their football skills. Smith and Isaac are demonstrating good ball control, passing skills and there use of language. We could be looking at football stars of the future.

We had so much fun at our Xmas party. There was dancing, singing, party games and food. We even had a special visit from Santa!!!!! It is now beginning to look a lot like Xmas 🙂

We put on a fabulous nativity show for our family and friends. The children had so much fun singing and getting dressed up. Thank you so much for all your help and support over this year. We wish you all a magical festive season and look forward to seeing you all in the new year. Merry Christmas.

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After collecting our sticks we had great fun making our own stick men. We worked together with our family and our friends to create our stick men. We used various materials e.g. ribbons and playdough. I think you’d agree there are some fabulous looking stick men.

In the 2 year old room we have been reading the book Stick Man by Julia Donaldson. We wanted to see if we could find our own “Stick Man” and so donned our all in one weather proof suits, and explored the grounds of the school. We were astounded by how many sticks we found that looked like Stick Man, his lady love and his three stick children. Lots of fun was also had when we discovered some nice muddy puddles. It was magic how our wellies could disappear in the puddle and how our newly found sticks could be used to mix the mud in the puddle. Below are some videos from  our Stick Man hunt. Enjoy.

Singing is a good way of developing a child’s speech and language skills. In the nursery we do a lot of singing!!!! We have a hello song ,which we sing at the beginning of our session. The song allows  the children to learn each others names, and there own. We also have a goodbye song for the end of the day which helps the children to understand that the session is over and it is now time to go home. We love singing lots and lots of songs, especially baby shark. Attached are two videos, one of our hello song and the other a great rendition of baby shark. Enjoy 🙂