especially for nursery children moving on to Primary 1.
We’ll be here every Monday to share activities, ideas and challenges to help you get ready for P1.
Can you RECOGNISE numbers?
Are you 5?
Are you 4?
Learning to recognise numbers is a practical skill that lasts a lifetime. It’s good if your child can show an interest in numbers, such as ‘my age and my door number’.
Games and play are the best ways to learn numbers.
Numbers are all around us. Look around your house-you will see lots of numbers on clocks, phones, recipes, magazines. Where else do you see numbers?
OUTSIDE your house there are lots of numbers too.
Here is a wee quiz. Look at these numbers around Beattock.
Can you spot them?
Do you know this door number?
This is a big number!
Here’s another big number! Your mummy or daddy will tell you what it is! What? You know it already! No way!
Can you see the numbers 1, 4 and 3 on this sign?
Oooh, this is a tiny number-did you find it?
This one is tricky to find too!
It’s great that your child can count and recognise some numbers. These are super skills. Even more important though is that your child learns something called 1:1 correspondence. This is when you use your finger to touch objects as you count. It’s like slow motion counting!
Here is a video for parents.
Some of you will have children who can count really well. Here is another skill that we learn at nursery and Primary. It’s called SUBITIZE! Pronounced Soobitize! Here’s a catchy song. A great way to learn to subitize is to play games with a dice.
Today’s blog is especially for PARENTS as you get ready to look out, order and buy things for your child going to school.Â
You still have plenty of time!! As things stand at the moment, children start P1 in August so there are still 14 weeks to go until Thursday August 20th!
But it’s good to be organised and I know that some of you are ordering uniforms and planning what you’ll need.
SCHOOL UNIFORMS, SHOES AND BAGS
Here’s an example of the variety of uniforms your child could wear.
The basic school uniform at Beattock Primary school is WHITE POLO SHIRT, DARK TROUSERS OR SKIRT. As you can see from the photo, cardigans, jumpers, white shirts, pinafores and shorts are all part of the uniform.
What else will my child need?
Comfortable easy to fasten school shoes
Indoor shoes your child will change into when in class (these should be like plimsolls, easy to fasten and comfortable)
clothes for P.E.-tee shirt and shorts/leggings/joggers (indoor shoes can be used for PE but you can also provide trainers)
An example of clothes for PE.
Wet weather clothes (such as wellies, outdoor overalls, waterproof jacket),
School bag
Pencil case – this is optional but is a nice thing to have for doing homework. The school will provide all essential equipment for learning.
Water bottle
Gym bag for PE clothes
A pencil case with a few pencils inside.
You can get named pencil cases or just write their name on the front and save the expense of a personalised case!
Easy to open water bottle for daily use.
Bags will be opened and shut a million times a day! Make sure there is room for a snack and water bottle.
Gym bag for PE clothes.
Again you can get personalised ones or write your child’s name on the front and personalise it yourself.
Black plimsolls can be used as indoor shoes. Just check the velcro is strong as it can often come lose and then your child slips in an out of them.
Slip on trainers as indoor shoes.
The main thing to remember is that your child will be in uniform all day-a uniform should be COMFORTABLE and EASY to get on and off.
Every one else will be in uniform too and cardigans, jumpers and even trousers get lost and mixed up-you’ll need to LABEL everything.
Label everything!
You can order personalised iron-on labels-these are brilliant!
Or you can write onto the label. This is probably the most USEFUL thing you will do! It will save countless muddles!
You can also get help to buy a school uniform. Check out the links below:
especially for nursery children moving on to Primary 1.
We’ll be here every Monday to share activities, ideas and challenges to help you get ready for P1.
How good are you at COUNTING?
What’s the biggest number you can count up to? No way! That’s a VERY big number! Let your family hear you COUNT. I bet you make them smile! Some of you can count up to 20!!!!!!
Listen to this song, we sing it at nursery.
Listen to Liam singing the song:
Well done Liam! Why don’t you sing this song and record it on your mum’s phone like Liam? I know that you are all lovely singers!
Learning number skills like COUNTING are very important life skills. Think about it, you count every day! Include your child in counting-as you put the shopping away or as you load the washing machine!
Here is a great counting game that we really LOVE at nursery. What’s the Time Mr Wolf. Count out as you step closer and closer to the wolf! Don’t get eaten!!!!!
 Welcome to our weekly nursery blog! It won’t be the same as seeing you in the nursery, but we hope it cheers up your week with some ideas of things you can try at home.
This week’s theme is BABIES!
My best ever pram.
I rolled up my sleeves like my mummy and helped to wash my baby brother. He was very funny-he loved spoons!!!
When I was little I played a lot with my pram and I loved my new baby brother. I know you LOVE babies too!
When I phoned you last week, lots of you were playing babies. I wish I could have seen your babies. Which one is the tiniest? Which one is the sleepiest? Which one is the naughtiest? Which one goes in the pram all the time?
Have you ever carried your baby on your back? Do you remember doing that at nursery with Mrs Paterson? Â You could even carry your baby to the park! Will you put them on your back or front? I hope your baby’s not too heavy!
Babies on the back.
Two babies in the front!
Hey-good idea to use scarves, towels and jumpers to carry your baby!
Here are some things you could play with your babies.
This week on the 21st of May it will be Outdoor Learning Day. Maybe you could try one of these activities outside on Thursday.
It’s the morning! Wake up! Can you get your baby dressed?
”Welcome everybody. It’s good to see you here, here in this place!”
Play at nurseries or schools with your babies. Sing the Good Morning song to them!
Baby did you get dirty? Time for a bubble bath! Use your basin and fill it with soapy water.
Open wide! Dinner time!
Time to go outside. Where will you take your baby? Pretend you’re off to the shops!
Find your very best book and read to your babies.
Shhh! Bed time. Can you make a cosy wosy bed?
Lovely babies have lovely mummies!
I love you baby!
I think you know babies like milk!
Do you know why we need milk? Â That’s right, you remembered it has calcium in it to make our teeth and bones strong.
Thank you farmers for looking after the cows that give us milk and for growing the plants to give us plant-based milk!
Snack Time!
 Why not try these milk and plant-based milk snacks! See if they make you stronger-can you do more press-ups now?
Strawberry and banana smoothie.
Mix in milk as you make your jelly. Half milk, half water. My Grandma called this Snow!
Creamy porridge with the fruit family! Cute kiwi baby!
Now, here’s a FIZZY Science EXPERIMENT using MILK.
Maybe one day you will be a Scientist and help find cures to make people better!
You’ll need milk, vinegar, baking soda, a small dish and kitchen roll. You don’t need food colouring but if you have some it will add to the fun! Please don’t drink the milk afterwards. Yuch! And remember to help tidy away at the end!
Can you remember when you were a baby?
Look at your baby photos, or even mummy and daddy’s baby photos.
How have you changed? You are now much taller and I hear that some of you are nearly as tall as your big brother and that one of you has new Nike shoes that make you bigger!
Why not measure how tall you are and keep a growth chart?
Measure how tall you are.
Measure your babies and toys too!
If you’ve got an old roll of wallpaper, draw around your whole body!
You could colour your body picture or even add what’s inside your body! Lots of food?
Arrange your babies and toys from the smallest to the tallest.
Look in the mirror! Are you taller today?
Draw around your shadow then you will see how tall you are.
You could even measure the seeds that you’ve been planting.
Baby Animals
Play a baby animals game with your family. Ask them if they know the names of baby animals then get them to ask you. Here is a chart to get you started.
Finally, time for the loveliest story about babies. I like when Bill, the smallest one, says “I want my mummy!’
And how could we resit this song! Get dancing!
Benny the busy Puppy!
Benny has a sore paw!
 He wants to play hospitals with his babies and toys.
Oh Rabbit you’ve got sore ears!
Lie down. You’ll feel better soon.
Benny likes being a nurse.
Oh dear! Poor baby! Pretend your baby needs to go to hospital-can you use some real plasters and bandages like Benny?
If you are passing the school this Thursday on your walk, look out for a little present that Benny has painted for each of you. It will be on the wall outside the school and if you live far from Beattock, Benny will try to deliver it to your home.
Welcome to our weekly nursery blog! It won’t be the same as seeing you in the nursery, but we hope it cheers up your week with some ideas of things you can try at home.Â
This week’s theme is TRANSPORT!
If you walk around Beattock you’ll see and hear lots of different transport. How many different types of transport can you hear and see? Count how many you find. Which one is your favourite?
I know who likes playing with train sets best and I know who likes jets the best! If you could jump on a jet where would you fly to? Why not look at a map of the world and choose a cool place to go!
Look at all the different animals you could go and see!
Hey, this looks like our nursery rug!
And this looks like our globe!
Imagine flying right around the world!
What other things could you do today?
Draw around a vehicle.
Get your cars. Make tracks with them. You don’t need make tracks in paint, you could just drive them in soapy water and pretend they’ve been to the car wash!
I like this drawing with all the family in the car.
Go outside and look for road signs. How many different ones can you see?
You could even play at BUSES!
Here’s Liam driving the bus!
Return to Moffat please!
All aboard!
Here’s a cut and stick skill to learn!
One of our favourite things to do at nursery is to make vehicle stickers. We find pictures of vehicles in newspapers, magazines and online. Then we cut out the pictures of racing cars and aeroplanes or whatever vehicle we like and then we stick them on our jumpers using sellotape.
Delicious Vehicles You Can EAT!!!!!!
Check out these delicious vehicles! They look like one of Miss Murray’s snacks don’t they!
A banana aeroplane.
A banana train. I like the round strawberry wheels.
Imagine eating this!
Choo Choo!
Nice little apple and grape cars.
What a great idea. Traffic lights made from fruit.
Time for Miss Musiej’s COOK SCHOOL!
Try out a new healthy recipe every week with Miss Musiej. This week it’s time to make Carrot Muffins. These are to celebrate VE Day! Just click on the title below to see the link to Miss Musiej’s recipe and banana dance!
especially for nursery children moving on to Primary 1.
We’ll be here every Monday to share activities, ideas and challenges to help you get ready for P1.
Are you ready to get your body moving???? Are you ready to build an Assault Course???
This looks fun! I like the Magic Carpet ride!
Make your own Assault Course outside with chalk! This looks a lot of fun, especially jumping over the volcano!
Learning to move your body is a really important skill. It builds up core strength and coordination as well as concentration. These are skills you need before you learn to write. They help when you do P.E. and when you go to after-school clubs too.
Check out these other gross motor skills (that’s a posh name for skills to help your body move) that you could try with your family!
Balancing.
Using your legs to move the swing back and forth.
Limbo dancing!
Jumping and splashing!
These skills will be great when you play in the big playground with your buddies and friends.
See you next week to learn and practice more skills!
especially for nursery children moving on to Primary 1.
We’ll be here every Monday to share activities, ideas and challenges to help you get ready for P1.
Are you ready for the first challenge? I think all of you will find it pretty easy!
Challenge # 1Â Can you put your coat on in 30 seconds?
I wonder if any of you did it quicker than that?
Challenge # 2 Take off your coat without the sleeves going inside out!!!!
That’s a tricky one. What will you do if your sleeves go inside out? Do you know how to fix it? Well done!
Learning to be independent is very important. It gives you a good feeling when you can do things for yourself.Â
Putting on and taking off your coat by yourself is a great skill to have before you start school. Lots of you even know how to hang up your coats. Look for the little hoop and hang it on the hook! And you even know how to zip and button.
Mrs Miller will be so pleased that you can do this all by yourself!
Welcome to our weekly nursery blog! It won’t be the same as seeing you in the nursery, but we hope it cheers up your week with some ideas of things you can try at home.
This week’s theme is GARDENS!
I’m sure you’ve been out in your garden a lot recently. It doesn’t matter how big or how small your garden is, it’s a wonderful place where plants and even little animals live! Maybe you’ll go on a bug-hunt or water the plants or plant seeds in your garden this week. Do you remember the nursery garden and when we visited Peter Pan’s garden at Moat Brae?
Off to get logs for the Bug Hotel.
Our very own Bug Hotel!
A lovely spotty ladybird pops in to say hello!
My, how you’ve grown!
Planting seeds.
Remember we went to Moat Brae garden?
It had crocodiles in the garden!
And a wonderful tunnel slide!
And a ladder up to the Pirate Ship!
If you want to plant seeds, do you know where you might find them? Yes-inside fruit! If you like apples, keep the seeds and plant them.
Here is an apple seed experiment
You’ll need a clear cup, an apple and some lemonade or soda.
Collect the apple seeds. Pop them into the cup of lemonade. Wait about 10 seconds. What do you think will happen? Watch the next 2 videos and see!
All these apples are making me hungry!
These snacks look just like the snacks Miss Murray and Miss Musiej make! Yum yum.
Time for Miss Musiej’s COOK SCHOOL!
Try out a new healthy recipe every week with Miss Musiej. You’ll love it, especially of you’ve been missing going down the road to McDonalds!
Just click on the title Chicken Nuggets below to see what she’s made.
When I was little I loved doing this wee rhyme. It was very tickly!
Finally, a fabulous story about a very clever ladybird. I know lots of the nursery LOVE ladybirds and they LOVE this story too!
Benny the busy Puppy!
Benny likes sticks. He has used them to make a garden bedroom for bugs! Would you like to see it? Why not make one for your garden too?
Wow! Thats a lot of sticks Benny!
Benny found some bricks but you could use stones.
First he laid the sticks in between the bricks.
Another layer of sticks. Then another.
Then he added bark and moss.
Well done Benny.
Let Benny know if any insects visit your bug bedroom. On the day Benny made his one, a beautiful stag beetle popped in to say hello. Look at it’s purple coat.
Welcome to our weekly nursery blog! It won’t be the same as seeing you in the nursery, but we hope it cheers up your week with some ideas of things you can try at home. Just scroll down the page.
This week’s theme is RAINBOWS!
How could we resist when there are so many to see all around us. Do you have a rainbow picture in your window?
This week why not try to make a rainbow in a different way?
You could make an arc of colours or pile them up to make a rainbow stack.
Mrs Leigh tried to make a rainbow from her washing!
Rainbow washing!
Rainbow pile of ironing!
You could collect stones and colour them with pens or paints if you have them. I wonder how many stones you need to make a rainbow? Have a count once your rainbow is made.
Delicious Rainbows You Can EAT!!!!!!
You could even try to make rainbow food!
Check out these delicious rainbows! They look like one of Miss Murray’s snacks don’t they!
Rainbow kebabs
Yum Yum! Rainbow pizza!
Matching food colours
Cute clouds!
Do you know this song?
Once there was a boy called Joseph. His dad gave him a beautiful coat of many colours. Have a look at this funny song-do you think Joseph’s big brothers like his coat?
Try counting all the colours in Joseph’s coat! There’s a lot!
Here is an EXPERIMENT you can do to make a rainbow.
You’ll need: water, a plate and some Skittles (sweeties!).
Put the skittles all the way around the plate
Take your time to make a beautiful pattern
Next add some water to the plate. Let it cover the skittles a little bit, you might need some help with this bit. Watch very carefully and patiently.
Watch carefully!
What can you see?
Ooooh! Isn’t it beautiful! How do you think that happened?
How are rainbows made? I know you always tell me by sunshine and rain!
Have a look at the weather forecast for this week on your tablet or on mummy’s phone. Do you think you’ll see a real rainbow this week? Which day?
Finally, here is a story about a very colourful elephant called Elmer. Do you remember hearing his story at nursery?
Benny the busy Puppy
Benny is enjoying playing outside in the sunny weather. Are you?
What is he up to today? Why don’t you join in?
Benny has filled his bucket with water. Just like you do at nursery!
Do you think he’ll cover the whole wall?
He LOVES painting!
Free Lunches during Lockdown
Please see the Council’s latest information about providing free school lunches for some nursery pupils. Click on the link below:
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