Successful Learners – Page 17 – Hecklegirth Nursery

Money Matters

As the children in both Nursery rooms requested shops in their role play areas recently, it was a great opportunity to develop their learning about coins. As you can see, some were able to match coins and discuss what we use money for. The next step in learning will be to recognise and name some coins which a few are beginning to be able to do. You could perhaps take the opportunity when out and about in the holidays to talk about different coins with your child? This is certainly an area of maths that most children show great enthusiasm for so they will probably be keen to show off their knowledge.

STEM Learning With Your Child

STEM stands for science, technologies, engineering and mathematics which are all areas of learning in Nursery. If you take a look at the STEM displays in each room, you can get a taste of all the different activities the children enjoy which are developing their knowledge, understanding, curiosity, creativity and enthusiasm in these areas.
To help you understand how you can support these areas of your child’s learning at home, we have added a link on the right under “Useful Reading: STEM for Parents”. Click on the link for information from Education Scotland and have fun learning with your child.

Germ Busting

Just like the children in the Rainbow Room, those in the Raindrop Room recently used the machine that uses UV light to show up germs. Although the children thought that they had washed their hands thoroughly they were amazed to see evidence to the contrary when putting their hands under the ‘magical’ light of our germ busting machine.
Sophie: I missed my nails. The light shows glitter bug gel.
Tilly: I need to wash my hands again. It’s still between my fingers.
Skye D.: I missed my wrist.
Paisley: I used soap to wash my hands. I missed the back.
Skye B.: the glitter’s on my hands. I need to wash my hands again.
Leighanna: I missed a bit so am going to try again. Wash your germs away or you’ll get ill.
Lola: it’s on my fingers. It’s not sore using that magic machine.
Noah: you can’t see all germs. I’ve missed my hand here.
Barclay: I’ve missed my finger.
Kara: I’ve cleaned them. I’ve washed the germs.

Family Maths Activities

Sophie E.’s family has been looking at our photos of our Family Maths Activity event last week:

“Really enjoyed coming in and doing the activities with sophie. Great ideas for learning at home.”

Thank you for joining us for National Maths Week. Its good to hear that we gave you some ideas for learning at home.

Engineers Of The Future?

The children in the Rainbow Room have been very busy investigating an old TV to find out what is inside it and to build confidence using tools. As you can see, this promotes great curiosity, problem solving skills and teamwork which develops learning across the curriculum. I wonder if we have some engineers of the future here?

Word Of The Week

Linked to the learning they have planned, “Word of the Week” in the Raindrop Room will be ‘balance’ while the Rainbow Room will focus on ‘artist’.

National Maths Week Fun

Thank you to those families who joined us this week for our fun activities to celebrate National Maths Week. It was lovely to see our parents, grandparents and carers playing together with the children on a range of Maths activities. Thank you also for completing our evaluation sheets which are useful in indicating which activities were the most popular and to Eileen, our Family Learning Co-ordinator, for organising our event. We hope that we have given you some ideas of how to develop your child’s learning at home.

Click then click again on photos for a closer look.

Hunt The Germs

After learning about how to wash their hands properly, the children in the Rainbow Room were able to check how well they had cleaned them by looking at their hands in a special machine that uses UV light to show up germs. As you can imagine, some of the children were surprised that they still had germs showing up on their hands so hopefully everyone will be making an extra super effort with their hand washing from now on.

Colour Mixing

Experimenting with paint to make different colours is great fun especially when done on a bigger scale outdoors. Here the children created their own colour mixes sending different colours of paint down the pipes into big bowls then observing the effects. A few little ducks joined in the fun and were sent down the slides to splash into the newly created pools of colour. What a busy morning this was.