{"id":33053,"date":"2026-04-24T12:32:06","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T12:32:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/crookfurnursery\/?p=33053"},"modified":"2026-04-24T12:32:06","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T12:32:06","slug":"earth-day-silly-sentences-and-scrunchie-making","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/crookfurnursery\/2026\/04\/24\/earth-day-silly-sentences-and-scrunchie-making\/","title":{"rendered":"Earth Day, Silly Sentences and Scrunchie Making!"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the block area the children have been exploring larger scale buildings. They have been adding more detail to their buildings using a combination of large and small blocks and including loose parts in their models. Children have been collaborating and sharing ideas within their peers to create various models. This encourages communication, co-operation, compromise, confidence building and sharing ideas, likes and dislikes with each other.<\/span><\/p>\n

In the small world area, we have designed various shelves into rooms. The children were involved in the design process and selected patterns, designs and materials for the shelves. Descriptive language was used to describe the textures and feelings of the different materials. The children have been using the small world shelves well and have demonstrated good creativity, imagination, role play and communication when using them.<\/span><\/p>\n

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This week in the literacy area the children have been exploring sentence structure by selecting words to join together. Through this the children explored print conventions such as where we start reading and the direction that we read the text. Some of the children also explored upper and lower case letters and where they are positioned and punctuation of full stops. Some of our learners also explored alliteration to create their own silly sentences and developed their phonological awareness of initial sounds and letter recognition.<\/span><\/p>\n

MS \u201c I picked\u00a0 a \u2018g\u2019 because its in my name\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u201cWhat does my sentence say now?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u201c We were saving fish from the plastic and I’m making them a silly sentence to make them laugh\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

ES \u201cGig that’s the same sound\u201d \u201cMy sentence is getting longer and longer\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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This week in the malleable area we have been celebrating \u2018Earth Day\u2019 by exploring pollution in our oceans. The children had the task of removing all the rubbish from the \u2018sea\u2019 to help save the sea life. This sparked conversations around what materials are dangerous, how these can harm the sea life and how we should dispose of our rubbish.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThe dolphins got wrapped up in elastic bands\u201d MS<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s plastic the fish might swallow it\u201d FMc<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cMight get wrapped up and be trapped forever\u201d FM<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cRubbish goes in the bin\u201d FM<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI saved the fish\u201d LBG<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cLook the whale\u2019s covered I\u2019ll save him\u201d RJ<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cNemo is stuck don\u2019t worry I\u2019ll save you Nemo\u201d MM<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThey might die take the rubbish out\u201d AP<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cShells can stay in the water\u201d LS<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cSomething stuck under there it\u2019s a wrapper\u201d IH<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cHe lives in the ocean, I saw a dolphin when I was a big girl\u201d PHW<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s a bit of plastic\u201d PHW<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThe fish is trapped\u201d AL<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s a lot of bad things they would choke in their mouth\u201d AC<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201c that\u2019s not plastic that\u2019s a stone\u201d HM<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s not happy because there\u2019s so much rubbish in the water\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s stuck he can\u2019t get it off\u2019 EB<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cSave me he\u2019s in the water more rubbish his tail will fall off\u201d FF<\/span><\/p>\n

This simple activity helps the children explore and appreciate the wonder of our natural world and show them the important part they play in the future of our planet.<\/span><\/p>\n

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This week in the sewing area the children have been making their own scrunchies using material and elastic. They chose their own fabric and cut it into strips. We then sewed them together and threaded the elastic through, before joining both ends together. The children measured out their elastic to make sure it was the correct length and tested out their scrunchies by putting them on their wrists or in their hair.<\/span><\/p>\n

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