Today the sun was shining. We took our learning outdoors. Exploring water, mixing, pouring and creating mud soup.🥄🧫

Ellis and Lucas were Knights of the castle. Using the drawbridge to fend of the monsters who were attacking them.🐴

Lucas was scaling the tree. He was balancing carefully as he walked along the logs. He was a great “climber”. 👍

We have been lucky to acquire some new building blocks in the 2’s. The children have loved exploring the shape and size of the blocks and some could not quite believe how heavy they were!!! Working together the afternoon children created a spectacular tower. Through the use of the building blocks the children were developing their language skills, problem solving and how to work together as a team. Marcus was our team leader and directed, using the children’s names, were they should each place there blocks. As the tower got taller they all realised that it was to high for them to reach and place anymore blocks on so decided to build another. I’m sure you’ll agree it is a very amazing creation, and it didn’t fall down.

World Book Day 7th March 2019.

Sharing stories can help your child get to know sounds, words and language and help develop early literacy skills. Stories can also spark curiosity and imagination. 📚

Some fantastic ideas for rainy day play☔️

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No weather holds us back from being outdoors. With our waterproof suits on and our wellies we have been outside jumping in the muddy puddles. With a lack of rain recently we have missed being able to jump in the puddles but today we discovered a very large puddle and just had to jump into it. It has been so much fun being able to splash and jump in the puddles. I’m sure you’ll agree from the videos and pictures that the children truly love it.

We loved helping to organise and mix all the ingredients to make our Scotch pancakes today. We used flour, eggs, milk, sugar & butter. We then watched them cooking in the pan and spread our own pancakes with the choice of syrup, butter or jam. They were delicious! We then had a story about ” Mr Wolf’s pancakes”

Each term nursery and primary one meet for a joint learning opportunity. These events give the children the opportunity to meet up with their friends, share what they have been learning and to have fun. Sharing the bikes and building obstacle courses together were popular this time. Next term there will be more focus on Numeracy, Literacy and Health and Wellbeing for our pre- school children when they visit the Primary One classroom. 🤗

We have our Stay and Play Days on the last Wednesday of each month, morning and afternoon sessions. These days give parents and carers the opportunity to spend time with their child/children in the nursery, to look at their child’s journal, to see the learning that is taking place and most importantly to have fun with their child in their learning environment. These days also give parents and carers the opportunity to have informal chats with staff. We hope to see you at our next Stay and Play Day which will be held on Wednesday 27th March😀

In the 2’s room we have been discovering relaxation and yoga. We carry out relaxation at the end of session at least twice a week. During our relaxation sessions the children lie on their chosen cushion and listen to relaxing music while the ladies talk them through some breathing techniques and stretches. After many attempts we have found that the children respond to relaxing songs rather than a piece of music, e.g. sounds of the ocean, a favourite seems to be Purple Rain by Prince!!!! We have mastered breathing through our noses and out through our mouth and enjoying stretching our arms out and wiggling our fingers. Relaxation is good for the mind, body and soul.

This week we have carried out our first yoga session. Yoga has many benefits for children. Physically it develops flexibility, strength and coordination. It also improves concentration and a sense of calmness. Cosmic Kids provides yoga sessions linked to popular story books. We have been reading “Going on a bear hunt” and decided to use this as our first session. The children enjoyed carrying out all the different poses and lasted the full 15 minute session. Personally the ladies enjoyed the last part of lying down on the floor and not moving!!!! We will continue to carry out yoga sessions once a week with the possibility of increasing the number of sessions.

After our trip to the supermarket we had to sample what we had bought. On Tuesday 5th February it was Chinese New Year , the year of the pig. Mrs Hutcheson used the food we purchased to create a yummy snack. We had a vegetable stir fry with fresh ginger, soy sauce, and noodles. We also tried curry sauce and shrimp crackers. On leaving nursery we all received a fortune cookie, here’s hoping for good fortune to all for the year head. Kung hei fat choi.