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Engineers Of The Future?

Whatever the weather, lots of our children always enjoy being outdoors and adapt their play to the environment they find. Recent heavy rain and big puddles provided the opportunity for some great teamwork and problem solving as the children worked together to build bridges. There was some super discussion about possible solutions to crossing the water and it was wonderful to hear the children listening to each other and following through their plans to make a path across the huge puddle. I wonder if we have some engineers of the future here?

Caring For Our Environment

Come wind, rain or shine we have to care for our garden and these helpful little gardeners did a great job recently weeding our plant box. They showed good listening skills to carry out instructions and, as well as pulling all the weeds out, they tidied everything into the bin afterwards, leaving us with a weed free and tidy box. What super “responsible citizens” and “effective contributors” they are which are two of the aspirations we have for all children in Scotland

Well Done Hecklegirth

We have received a comment from one of our Dumfries and Galloway RAiSE team on our investigation of the ice we found in our garden recently:

“Well done Heckegirth. True STEM learning in action. Love it!

Regards

Carol Moyes
RAiSE Teacher”

Thank you for showing an interest in our activities. The changing seasons always seem to bring great opportunities for developing learning outdoors.

Freezing And Melting

This week saw the first signs of winter appearing in our outdoor area and some of the children were very excited to discover ice in a tub. What better way to learn about melting than to see it happening before your eyes? The children certainly showed that they were beginning to think about what was happening.
“It’s so cold.”
“We found hard ice.”
“It makes my gloves go wet.”
“It disappears away.”
“You go so fast on the slide when there’s ice.”
“It feels slippy and hard.”
“It’s sometimes water too.”
No doubt Jack Frost will provide lots more opportunities to learn about freezing and melting over the next few months.

Word Of The Week

As we continue to talk about our new weather equipment, “Word of the Week” this week will be windsock.

Word Of The Week

Our “Word of the Week” this week is actually two words. We will be learning about our new weather recording equipment so this week we will be finding out about what a rain gauge is.

Pumpkin Picnic

Once we had enjoyed our Hallowe’en celebrations, we had to decide what to do with our pumpkins. The children helped to prepare them for outdoors as we thought that the birds and insects might like to have a little feast on them. It was quite hard work but an enthusiastic little group were great helpers preparing the pumpkins and placing them in various positions in the outdoor area. We hope that the visitors to our garden enjoyed their picnic.

Sunshine Superstars

As well as learning about hygiene and safety when preparing foods, our youngest children in the Sunshine Room were developing their understanding of science and talking and listening skills when they recently made chocolate crispies. Who would have thought that something so tasty could provide so much learning? It is great to see these young children becoming so independent and focussed in their activities. Super work all of you!

Super Sunflower

Just look at this wonderful photo that was brought in to Nursery recently. Those of you who were with us last year may remember planting sunflower seeds and this is an example of how big one of them grew. We are very impressed with yet another super gardener who must have done a great job of looking after her plant. Very well done!