One of Dumfries and Galloway’s RAiSE (Raising Aspirations in STEM Education) team has been looking at the photos of the two year old children from the Sunshine Room growing cress.
Great to see science learning that is not only fascinating but tasty too! Looks like you have some budding horticulturists there.
Regards
Carol Moyes
RAiSE Teacher
CYPLL
Thank you for taking the time to comment on our post. This lovely little team certainly enjoyed seeing science in action.
As part of their learning about growing, the children in the Sunshine Room planted cress recently and were very excited to watch it grow. It was even better when they were able to use their cress as part of their snack preparation. Nothing tastes better than something you have grown yourself.
Our “Word of the Week” for this week is graduation as we prepare the children for our end of year celebration.
Making dens develops teamwork, communication and problem solving skills as well as being lots of fun, with the children able to test out their planning and learn from their mistakes when they use their den.
As we reach the end of the year, it is evident that our children have learned so much from developing these skills both indoors and outdoors. Here is an example of their work which was totally led and organised by the children with no adult intervention. They were so proud of their efforts and spent such a long time playing in their den, changing and developing it as different children joined in the play.
Creativity and imagination are central to the play of our children and we just loved the way this little group created their own picnic table from resources they found outdoors. They worked well as a team, talked about what they needed and then produced some wonderful, imaginative role play for such a long time, making drinks and a variety of different foods as part of their play.
We love going for P.E. with Mrs. Foster, our P.E. teacher, and she enjoys having the Nursery as part of her school sessions. Usually we do all our learning in the school hall but recently Mrs. Foster has been taking us out into the sunshine to develop our skills which has been a lovely change. Here is one of our sessions where the children are learning to jump and to control a hoop in different ways – what a great fun learning experience!
Our “Word of the Week” this week will be audience as we begin to talk about our end of year graduation and practise a few songs.
The children’s interest in minibeasts has developed over the past few weeks as we have talked about life cycles and kept an eye on our growing caterpillars. The outdoor area has been a hive of activity as some of the children have investigated exactly which minibeasts live in our garden. Here is a little gallery of our young scientists at work. Some of the photos were taken by them too so good work boys and girls.
Click then click again on the photos for a clearer view.
Our “Word of the Week” this week this week is senses as we talk about what each part of our bodies does and our senses.
This week’s “Word of the Week” is cocoon as we keep an eye on our own little cocoons. I wonder how many of the children can use this word?
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