After a stormy weekend, we have been using the water from puddles as we play and learn outdoors. We are transporting using lots of different containers, exploring the flow of water using the gutters, pouring and catching the water and having lots of fun splashing in the puddles!
We have been creating bird feeders and spotting the different feathered visitors who come to our garden as part of RSPB Birdwatch.
We have been learning about the impact of plastic on the environment. We carried out a survey on our lunch packaging and produced a graph to show the types of packaging used in our lunch boxes. Many of us have reusable wraps, tubs and flasks…. can we do more to reduce our waste?
We recently enjoyed a visit to St Ninian’s High School to take part in a sports event led by the sports leaders and the active schools co-ordinator. We played lots of games with the senior pupils and had a great time!
We are learning to use a range of digital resources to support our learning in literacy and maths.
Using programming as we learn about direction using the code-a-pillar.
Using the word wands as we explore shapes, numbers and words.
We have been enjoying some yoga sessions in nursery.
We recently introduced the children to using clay and we have a lovely clay working area.
We recently held a series of Outdoor Parent Workshops. These included outdoor play, den building and fire lighting. Thank you to everyone who came along and to the staff team for hosting these sessions.
Parents gave lovely feedback and we look forward to hosting some more workshops in the New Year.
“It was a lovely adventure for me to attend the Family Centre …for the wonderful Outdoor Education sessions”
“I really enjoyed the hands on play/ learning sessions”
“I had never thought of building a den in the garden using material, pegs etc. I will definitely take this forward.”
Our recent interest in dinosaurs led to us developing our Discovery area into a dinosaur cave and Jurassic World.
We researched all about dinosaurs using books and Chrombooks.
We recently had some visits to our local nursing home, Abbeyfield House. The children and residents played games and sang songs together.
We have been learning about the impact of plastic pollution on wildlife, especially sea animals. We collected some plastic waste and created a map to show the route of a piece of rubbish from our homes into the river and then out to sea.
We had a visit from two turtles Wallace and Grommit.
Our Nativity rehearsals are now underway and the children have been blasting out their favourite songs.
We look forward to our performance on Tuesday 17th December.
Please help us by practising the songs at home.
Recently, some of us visited the site of our new building. We learned all about site safety from Ivor and Honor Goodsite, the safety mascots.
We even had a go on one of the excavators.
Thank you to all the parents who attended our recent STEM curriculum evening and to the whole staff team for showcasing our learning and making this evening a huge success. Our parents loved trying out some of the experiences on offer and feedback was very positive and encouraging.
Great to see all the stimulating and fun activities and nice to talk with staff and parents.
So lovely to see the amazing resources and have a chance to meet other staff members – really lovely group.
Thank you for all the staff’s knowledge and expertise!
The resources were fantastic, in particular the technology.
Loved the ideas for playing and learning at home and seeing what children do at nursery.
I wish I could provide constructive feedback, but nope! The evening and it’s content was perfect! So much effort made! Such a shame more parents didn’t come along.
If you didn’t manage along, see what you missed here STEM in Glenwood presentation
Today as we came to nursery we were quite excited about the foggy morning.
Some of us read a story about fog.
When we went outdoors we easily spotted the spider webs because of the cold, foggy morning.
We went on a search for some more webs and discovered some spiders on the webs.
“Come and see the spider’s web I found.” Jacob
”I want to see the spiders too.” Azan
The spiders are orange or black.” Jacob
We are learning about direction as we experiment with the remote control toys. We can make them move forwards and backwards and even round in circles.
We love to use mashers with play dough. Using mashers develops our gross motor skills as we make pivotal movements by pressing and pushing.
We extended this by using the sieves to press patterns in the play dough.
We discovered that the play dough stuck to the window and we used punching movements to knead the play dough on the window.
As I build a structure, I select blocks which are the same size and I create a pattern. I have to place the blocks on carefully to balance them. My friends have made a slide and when I say ‘go’ they knock down my structure then I rebuild it exactly the same way!
We created a cycle track by marking lines on the playground and using tyres to cycle around.
We are very excited about the building work going on for our new nursery. We have been looking at the plans and created our own 3D model of our new centre.
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