Tag Archives: Literacy

Wednesdays are for visiting dinosaurs in far away landsšŸ™‚


Today the children decided they would like to make a story map using dinosaurs. Ā They had great fun creating different habitats for their dinosaurs to live in.ā€œ Iā€™m writing that itā€™s a dinosaur world we are makingā€ ā€œ I found my same stegosaurus in the bookā€ ā€œ Iā€™m drawing some grass for my diplodocus Ā to eat heā€™s hungry from walking for a long timeā€


ā€Iā€™m drawing around the triceratopsā€™s heā€™s quite bigā€ ā€œI drew a cave I wonder if my eight dinosaurs will fit in itā€ ā€œ My dinosaur is going for a swim in the pondā€

ā€œThis is my triceratops heā€™s going to eat the purple flower for his lunch.

ā€œOh no my dinosaur is on fireā€ ā€œThe volcano is to hotā€


ā€œItā€™s okay he can go to the pond heā€™s not hot nowā€ ā€œ Heā€™s going for a swimā€


ā€œThe pterodactyl is flying over his landā€ ā€œ He might fly down on his friends and eat them ā€œ The children were very imaginative with their story telling .

ā€œ I have a sonic dinosaur he is very fastā€ Ā We thought that next week we could move onto storyā€™s about woodland animals.

 

 

Fragrant Fruits

The children have continued to use their favourite fruits chart and have been taking turns asking their friends what fruit tastes the best.

We had a discussion about what our five senses are and what body part you use for each one.

Taste ā€œ- your mouthā€, tongueā€, ā€œ I lick my lips and tasteā€
Touch – Ā ā€œwith your handsā€
Smell – ā€œMy noseā€
See – ā€œeyesā€
Hear – Ā ā€œEarsā€

We decided we could use another one of our senses to gather informationĀ using our chart. The children chose their sense of smell to try and guess what fruit was in the cup.
We prepared the fruit and put them in our paper cups and covered it with a paper towel sealed on with an elastic band.

Everyone gathered their cups and charts and went to ask their friends to smell the fruit and say what their favourite smell and what they thought it was, before making a mark onĀ the chart to record their answer. The children all had different favourites but were very good at identifying the correct fruit just from its smell.

We then all came back to the table and counted up all the marks we had gathered to see which one was the most popular.

ā€œApple has 9 it is the favouriteā€

ā€ Orange has the most on my chartā€

ā€œ watermelon had none but I like watermelonā€

We discussed our favourite smells before making a plan to use a different sense for our next fruit identification, what sense do you think we chose?

Creative puppets

Our children have shown a keen interest in making puppets. Today the children have been working hard in the studio creating some characters for a puppet show.Ā  We watched the puppet show The 3 little pigs before starting our own.

We discussed our characters and what they would look like then picked some resources to make them.

“I’m going to use these of his eyes”

Some of the children have chosen there favourite characters from books and some have created there own.

“I’m making a unicorn”

“I want to make a mouse. I’m going to use a small stick for my mouse, he’s little”

“this is the big bad wolf he has a big nose and ears”

“I like Pip and Posy books I’m making Pip”

Once our characters were made we wrote a story about then to act out.

<

We made our stage and found some friends to come and see our show.

Everyone enjoyed the show šŸ˜€

Celebrating world book day we went on a literacy adventure to Busby library


Today at Cart Mill family centre, we took an exciting trip to Busby library. It was quite a long walk but the children really enjoyed talking about the sights we saw along the way. We noticed some signs of spring, snow drops and the beginnings of daffodils starting to poke through the soil. We also spotted a boat a cat and we waved at a lady who was sat at her window. When we got to the library, we met Peter the librarian who very kindly let us choose some interesting books to explore together. We also got to select some books to take back for our friends at nursery. Peter read us a special story called Oi Goat especially for world book day with lots of laugh out loud rhymes which we loved! We remembered that we have a sister book Oi Frog back at the nursery.


On the way home, we stopped on the bridge to look for the ducks but unfortunately they werenā€™t there this time . We got back to Cart Mill just in time for our lunch which was just as well as all that walking had made us extra hungry! Later, we handed the books from the library out to our friends to have a look at. What a busy fun day we had today at nursery. Maybe you could visit a different library over the weekend and let us know what it was like.

 

World Book Day 2023

Happy World Book Day!

The boys and girls were invited to wear their jammies and bring in their favourite bedtime stories for World Book Day.

The children enjoyed showing the books to their friends and explaining to everyone what happens in the story.

We have enjoyed lots of stories throughout the dayā€¦.

We have even used our fairy house as inspiration to write our own fairytales.


ā€œMy fairy got stuck in the roof. We need to use magic to help her.ā€

ā€Iā€™m drawing an elf and a fairy like Ben and Holly.ā€

Some of the children from Carolside Primary very kindly shared a story with us as well. We heard about Kevin the Koala and Hairy McLairy from Donaldsonā€™s Dairy. The children loved hearing the stories, thank you to P6 at Carolside!

Then we watched some of the stories from the World Book Day website. Please follow the link below if you would like to watch the stories or find more information.

Events

The Three Billy Goats Gruff

This month in the clay area we have been creating characters from our favourite stories and this week we chose The Three Billy Goats Gruff. We started by reading the story and discussing the different characters then we set to work making them with the clay. We chose whether to make a 2D or a 3D model and discussed the best way to make the different features.


ā€œMy goat has huge horns!ā€ ā€œLook at my trollā€™s legs.ā€

Once the clay had dried we painted them then left them to dry again ready for telling the story.

Before starting our re-enactment of the story, we worked cooperatively to decide who would play each character and also compared the goats to determine which was the biggest and which the smallest. Then we were ready to get goingā€¦.

ā€œ

ā€Whoā€™s that trip trapping over my bridge?ā€

ā€Iā€™m coming to eat you!ā€

We had a great time telling the story and acting out each part with our models. We told the story many, many times, each time swapping which role we played and taking turns with our friends. By the end of the experience we could act out each part independently without an adult reading the story for us!

A wonderfully creative and expressive experience šŸ

Languages Week Scotland šŸ“󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁓ó æ

This week is Languages Week Scotland 2023 where we celebrateĀ language learning and multilingualism in Scotland. This years theme is ā€œLanguages for a peaceful worldā€.

This morning the children came across some stories and we discovered they were in different languages. This got us chatting about what language we speak in and how not everyone speaks the same language.

ā€œWhat does this sayā€

ā€œThat is the title of the story, ā€œThe tortoise and the Hareā€ written in Mandarin, Chineseā€

ā€When I went to Italy I hear a different languageā€

ā€œCan you say any words in Italianā€

ā€Noā€

ā€œWhat language is the Elmer book in?ā€

ā€œThe Elmer book is in English and Polishā€

ā€œ how do you speak to someone if they donā€™t speak the same language?ā€

ā€œSay Helloā€

We used the internet to find out how to say Hello šŸ‘‹ Ā in other languages and wrote them down so we could practice how to say them.

The children were developing their mark making and writing Ā skills as they wanted to copy the words so they can practice.

We can now say Hello in different languages to welcome our friends who speak English as an additional language.

Big Garden Birdwatch

This week we have been preparing for the RSPB Big Garden Birdwatch. We discussed why birds might come into the garden. ā€œItā€™s for seeds, we have some in my gardenā€. We then decided to to make our own bird feeders and hang them up on a branch.

The birds might need a drink as itā€™s been very cold and all the puddles are icy, so we made the birds their own drinking bowl ā€œLetā€™s put sticks near it so they can stand on themā€.

We then did some research by looking at some of the information sent to us by the RSPB which showed us lots of pictures of the birds that might visit our garden. Ā ā€œ I have seen some of these birds, thatā€™s a magpieā€.

It was very exciting watching for the birds. Some were far away so we used our binoculars. Then we could see some birds sitting in the trees and on top of the houses. We then thought about where else we could see the birds so we went for a bird watch walk.

We collected our bird watch recording sheet and set off. Ā I will hide in the trees like a bird watcher and see if the birds come near me we have to be very quiet šŸ¤«. Look I saw a blackbird letā€™s mark it on the sheet .

We managed to spot magpies, blackbirds, crows and blue tits. We all had a turn of recording the bird we had seen on our RSPB sheet, it was great fun!

The children are continuing to watch for birds in our garden and are independently recording them in our nature corner.
If you would like to join in this weekend the RSPB ask that you record the birds that visit your garden within 1 hour and then you can upload your results at rspb.org.uk/Birdwatch using the code BH35.

Everyone has worked very hard recording the information and have had great fun developing their skills of mark making, data collection, fine motor skills, health and well being and lots more. Happy bird watching everyone!

Welcome to our story corner šŸ§ø šŸ“š

We have been very busy in the home room today, setting up a cosy book corner. The children started off by choosing their favourite stories from our library cupboard, selecting a variety of books that sparked their imagination.

ā€œThe scary shark looks like this.ā€

ā€I have this one at home, itā€™s my favourite.ā€

We then got started on choosing puppets for our story corner.

ā€Letā€™s have incy wincyā€

ā€I like this one, it has little red riding hood and the wolfā€

We sang some of the childrenā€™s favourite nursery rhymes and then choose our rhyme of the week, which was wind the bobbin up šŸ§µ.

ā€Wind the bobbin up is my favouriteā€

ā€I like when we sing it really fastā€

We then had lots of fun reading stories, singing and playing with the puppets in our new area. Well done to the children for helping set it up, great job!

Mark making in the garden

In our garden, the children have been exploring and developing their mark making skills.Ā recently, the children have been exploring patterns and different ways to make them.

At our provocation area, the children were using flour and paint brushes to copy and create patterns…

the children were also exploring mark making in the gross motor art area of the garden today by using the cars to create patterns on paper with paint…

Over the next few weeks, we will be developing our mark making skills through various experiences outdoors and exploring and developing our knowledge of patterns in our environment.