The nursery garden was a complete mud bath today! What fun there was to be had! We played mud football, told stories in our den, measured and poured the rain water, and took turns and cooperated jumping in the biggest puddle.☔️☔️

We needed some pine cones for our art and craft activities in the 2’s room. We decided to go on a pine cone hunt around the school. We found lots of pine cones on the ground  in front of Mrs MacPhail’s and Mrs Rollo’s offices. We then had a wee walk around to the outdoor classroom. It was freezing and we wished we had some cosy hot chocolate to drink. Next time😀

In nursery we are creating a forest for the nocturnal animals we are learning about. First of all we painted a huge piece of card, then we worked together to gather leaves in the garden to glue on. We also had fun jumping in the leaves. Luke thought they sounded”crunchy” when he stomped on them. Owls, mice, hedgehogs and foxes are some of the animals we will be investigating.🐀

Some more pictures of our autumn party.

On Tuesday we had our Autumn party. The children looked “spooktacular”. We had witches, vampires, ghosts and a mad scientist. The children enjoyed many Halloween activities. We had minibeasts hidden in slimy jelly and worm spaghetti. Witches and wizards could be found creating magical potions in the water area and overnight ghosts and skeletons had visited the garden this required some investigating. The children used special ghost hunting torches to find out how many skeletons had hidden themselves in the garden. We all had so much fun.

This afternoon in the 2’s we have been listening to our story of the term ” The Very Helpful Hedgehog”. We are becoming familiar with the story and the characters. We carried out some apple printing to link in with our learning of the story.

This morning in the 2’s we were learning all about Autumn animals using our new laptop. We played some Autumn animal matching games and listened to some Autumn songs. We love using ICT to enhance our learning!

We are learning about Autumn and have chose the story “The Very Helpful Hedgehog” to help us with our learning. We have set up a focus table so we can explore the learning of the story. Today we made our very own hedgehogs from our painted hands.

It was a very windy start to the week and through discussions with the children we decided to try and build a kite. We began by sourcing materials. We chose to use material and some bamboo canes which we had spare in the garden. The morning children wanted to create a giant kite and chose a triangle design. The afternoon children went for the diamond shape and a much smaller design. The next step of creative was to give our white piece of material some colour. Lots of fun was had using brushes and pipettes to create splashes and blobs of colour. Our last step was to try and put it together and hopefully (fingers crossed) it would fly. We took our creations out into the school playing fields to allow us to be able to catch a good gust of wind. Our kites did fly, albeit a few inches off the ground, but the children had lots of fun trying to make the kites fly. We have attached the kites to the nursery fence just incase we have another blustery day.

As the seasons change so does the weather. We have had a lot of rain recently which in turn means a muddy nursery garden!!! To help keep the children dry (and a bit cleaner) the nursery have purchased a number of waterproof trousers, perfect for those rainy days. On Monday we had the perfect weather to put them to the test. The children where in there element at being able to jump in a very muddy puddle and all had clean and trousers when they came back into nursery. The children are being encouraged to try and put on their waterproofs and wellies by themselves and we are pleased to say we are mastering a good routine. Children are aware of where their wellies are and where to put there shoes when they take them off, next on the list will now be putting on the trousers. Can we again remind you that it is part of the children’s learning and development to be out in all types of weather which can sometimes mean muddy coats or clothes. We do also have activities indoors which are messy. Could parents/careers ensure that children have some spare clothing in nursery should such a mucky occasion occur. Thank you.

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