Olivia’s family was pleased with the photo showing our Nursery rules:
“What a lovely picture to go alongside an important rule! Olivia has enjoyed making friends with the new boys and girls that have recently started at nursery! 🙂”
‘We will all be friends’ is an important rule in Nursery. It’s lovely to see children making new friends this year after some have moved on to Primary 1.
The children should all now be familiar with the Nursery rules and they all seem to be remembering them most of the time. I wonder if they can tell you what they are?
“Autumn Walk to School Week” will begin today, Monday 26th September, until Friday 30th September. The underlying intention of the initiative is to encourage children to walk, cycle or scoot to and from school and Nursery to promote the obvious health benefits that these activities bring. Our Junior Road Safety Officers will assist in recording the numbers taking part. Bikes or scooters brought to Nursery can be stored in the small shed nearest to the car park in our outdoor area. We hope that everyone enjoys this great health initiative.
There was lots of learning happening recently when the children helped to make play dough. They were learning the importance of reading a recipe so that they know how much of each ingredient to use – there was good number recognition by some for this part of the task. Then they took turns to help count the number of spoons of each ingredient as they put it into the bowl and there was careful measuring to make sure we had just the right amount of water. As you can see, there was lots of super concentration and it was no surprise that the play dough turned out well. It’s true what they say that some things seem better when you make them yourselves and this play dough was certainly very popular so well done to the counters and mixers.
Some of you have been enjoying the photos of the children planting in their newly decorated planter:
“This looks fun! Gardening is one of Olivia’s favourite things to do with her daddy! She told me she was digging a huge hole to put a plant in!”
“Its nice to see Harvey settling in and enjoying doing some planting 🙂”
The children are taking their responsibilities very seriously and are looking after the new plants with great care so far.
After our graph work to help us choose which type of plants we wanted to buy, our plants arrived and the children tried to guess which scent each one had which was quite a challenge and produced lots of discussion. They helped to plant them all and have added some of the shells and stones that they decorated to the planter. We are encouraging the children to gently rub the leaves then smell their fingers to help work out which smell each plant has. We hope that you agree that this makes a useful addition to the garden. Why not have a walk round the sensory planter with your child and see if you can find the chocolate mint plant or the curry one? As you can see from the photos, one little boy has already been showing his Mummy what he has been busy with. The children are now thinking about how to look after their new plants and are very keen to help with the watering.
Two of our families have left comments on our recent posts. Enid’s family liked our first graph:
“What a fun way to learn about graphs, fantastic idea.”
We wanted to make sure that everyone had a chance to give their opinion on the plants we chose and the children were able to see clearly from the graph which choices were most popular so hopefully their first experience of a graph was meaningful for them.
Vinnie seems to be really proud of his recent certificate:
“Vinnie was so happy with his reward he showed it to everyone who came to the house…..even the milk man!”
We love that story Vinnie. I hope the milkman was as impressed as we are with your achievement.
There were some lovely smiles from last week’s award winners when they were presented with their certificates. Congratulations to you both!
It seems that lots of our families have been enjoying the photos of the outdoor activities we have been doing recently. Noah, Joshua H. and Kobe have all been talking about playing in the Nursery garden to their families.
“Look at that wee face-deep in concentration! Noah really enjoys playing outside at nursery with his friends!”
“Joshua looks so content & hard at work here. I remember this day he come home & said he had been cleaning & playing with water.”
“Good to see the kids outside playing. Kobe says he really enjoys playing in the nursery garden.”
Come sun or rain, most children seem to love outdoor play so it’s lovely to hear that they are talking to their families about it at home. Thank you for leaving comments. It’s great to know that you are looking at our blog and that the children are enjoying our outdoor play activities.
