{"id":28396,"date":"2025-07-31T12:52:19","date_gmt":"2025-07-31T12:52:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/crookfurnursery\/?p=28396"},"modified":"2025-07-31T12:52:20","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T12:52:20","slug":"ice-cream-games-tally-marks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/crookfurnursery\/2025\/07\/31\/ice-cream-games-tally-marks\/","title":{"rendered":"Ice-cream, Games & Tally Marks !"},"content":{"rendered":"

Following on from our interest in making cupcakes last week the children are now exploring different textures to make ice creams and waffles! We have used playdough and shaving foam, and used sequins as sprinkles. The children have discussed different flavours, ingredients and added some \u201ccream\u201d, \u201cflakes\u201d and \u201csauce\u201d to make them extra yummy. We have used mathematical language such as \u201c1 scoop\u201d or \u201c2 scoops\u201d and have enjoyed pretending to taste each other\u2019s creations!<\/span><\/p>\n

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\n<\/span>AV – \u201cI made an ice cream and I put chocolate sauce and sprinkles on\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

OM – \u201cI\u2019m making strawberry hearts with cream cheese on it\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

EB – \u201cIt\u2019s squishy\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

RU – \u201cIt\u2019s ice cream\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

SBW – \u201cIt smells like cream\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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This week, through play, the children have been learning about measurement, talking about longer and shorter straws and discussing what makes a building strong and tall. They have built different structures, talking about their work:-<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u201cSee when you\u2019re building a house, you have to be more sensible,\u201d SS<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cYou have to measure it first,\u201d MMc<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re not giving up!\u201d DB<\/span><\/p>\n

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Some children even invented their own game with the straws and balls that had rules and a million dollar prize!<\/span><\/p>\n

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This week in the creative area we have been exploring different artists and the various methods they employ in their paintings. We have looked at pointillism and the artist Georges Seurat. We are aware that this occurs when a large number of dots are used to form an image or picture. We created our dots using a variety of materials, including carton lids, cotton buds, and pompoms. We made boats, flowers, and trees. While the children were creating their masterpieces we listened to and admired various classical music and explored the\u00a0 rhythms and instruments used in this time period.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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The children have also been experimenting with primary colours and mixing the colours to create other colours. <\/span><\/p>\n

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\u201cRed and yellow make orange\u201d – H.W<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cBlue and red make purple\u201d – A.M \u201c<\/span><\/p>\n

“If we mix all the colors together it can make brown\u201d – F.W<\/span><\/p>\n

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This week the children have shown an interest in signing children into the nursery. They were able to represent this in a variety of ways within their mark making and were able to represent this through dots,ticks,marks,and tallymarks. For extra challenge some children were able to represent their tally in groups of five and are beginning to explore symbols and signs. The children developed their early numeracy skills as they used touch counting to see which colour group had the most\/least number of children and who had the most boys or girls. Within this experience the children are exercising their right to be protected (UNCRC).<\/span><\/p>\n

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AK \u201c We need to know how many boys and girls need lunch to tell Claire\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

SC \u201c It keeps\u00a0 us safe in a fire\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

JF \u201c You don’t go home with strangers\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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Following on from our interest in making cupcakes last week the children are now exploring different textures to make ice creams and waffles! We have used playdough and shaving foam, and used sequins as sprinkles. The children have discussed different flavours, ingredients and added some \u201ccream\u201d, \u201cflakes\u201d and \u201csauce\u201d to make them extra yummy. We … Continue reading Ice-cream, Games & Tally Marks !<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36337,"featured_media":28409,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/public\/crookfurnursery\/uploads\/sites\/12370\/2025\/07\/31122710\/IMG_1793-rotated.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/crookfurnursery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28396","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/crookfurnursery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/crookfurnursery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/crookfurnursery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/36337"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/crookfurnursery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28396"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/crookfurnursery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28396\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28465,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/crookfurnursery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28396\/revisions\/28465"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/crookfurnursery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/crookfurnursery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/crookfurnursery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/crookfurnursery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}