What a year we have had in the Yellow Group, we have loved watching the children learn and grow. However, it is now time for the summer holidays , and some of our children are going on to the next part of their learning adventure.๐
It’s time to say goodbye๐ฅ to our pre-schooler children who are moving up to primary 1. We are going to miss you all,ย but you are ready for your next adventure๐.ย Don’t forget to come back and visit us!
Our future pre-school children have had lots of fun outside, rain or shine. We can’t wait to see you in August for the next part of our learning story.๐ ๐๐๐
Have a lovely summer and we willย see you in August.
Another month has passed and the Yellow Groupย have been extremely busy. We have carried on with our rainbow theme as this has been popular amongst the children. We took part in an experiment using Skittles and have made up our own rainbow stories.
Skittle Experiment
we used Skittles and water, to make a rainbow.ย We carried out the experiment twice, once with warm water and once with cold. This enabled us to discuss the impact of variables on an experiment. You can easily try this at home too.
We made up or own stories about rainbows. This gave the children the opportunity to act as authors and illustrators.
Outdoor Learning
We have had very mixed weather this month.ย One day, it’s wellies and waterproofs and the next sun cream and sun hats.ย Whatever the weather, outside is always a busy place for fun and learning.
The children have worked together, using problem solving skills and reasoning to build some risky play obstacle courses. This started off as one plank of wood on a crate and was quickly extended to various planks balancing on crates at twice the height.
Their confidence is growing all the time as they assess their own risk and realise their ability.
“Adding water makes you slide much faster!”
“Who’s that tip tapping over my bridge?” Re-enacting Billy Goats Gruff.
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Sports Day
Lots of practice of our balancing, jumping, running and turning skills in preparation for Sport’s Day.
Giving each other a helping hand to keep their balance.Working on our Yellow Team flag!
We read a story called “How to Catch a Rainbow” and drew pictures of a rainbow. ๐
We have learned that rainbows are formed by sun and rain โโ. We are also practising the “Rainbow Song” in the following order: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and violet .
Can you go on a rainbow hunt around your house or outside?
Outdoor Learning
We have had a very mixed few weeks of weather this month,ย one day it’s wellies and waterproofs and the next suncream and sun hats.ย Whatever the weather its always a busy place for fun and learning and we’ve done lots of that.
The children have worked together using problem solving and reasoning skills to build some risky play obstacle courses. This started off as a plank of wood on one crate and was quickly extended to various planks balancing on crates at twice the height.
Their confidence is growing all the time as they assess their own risk and realise their ability.
Adding water makes you slide much faster!
“Who’s that trip trapping over my bridge?” Re-enacting Billy Goats Gruff.
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Sports Day
Lots of practice of our balancing, jumping, running and turning skills beforehand came in handy for our sports day.
Giving each other a helping hand to keep their balance.Working on our Yellow Team flat!
Can you believe we are at the end of March and that’s the first 3 months of the year gone already?
The Yellow Group have been so busy this month, we have beenย discussing the signs of spring. We have looked at daffodils and how they grow. We also practised naming the parts of the daffodil: stem, leaves and petals. We also learnt a song about daffodils.
When you go for a walk during the Easter holidays. See if you can spot any daffodils or any other signs of spring ?
We also had some Easter Fun too. ๐ฐ๐ฃ
Look at the amazing Easter eggs we made .
Our Easter Eggs
Our Yellow Daffodils
“The daffodil is yellow.”“My yellow daffodil.”“The daffodil has a stem , leaves and petals. The daffodil is yellow just like our yellow group.”” A daffodil has a stem, leaves and petals and it’s yellow.”” I have seen daffodils in the shops and outside, they are lovely ““Yellow.”“My daffodil.”
World Book Day
All the children were gifted a book of their choice for World Book Day.ย We were excited to read all about Greg the Sausage Roll, Charlie McGrew and Elmer’s Adventures during our nurture time.ย Greg The Sausage Roll was a firm favourite!
We hope you all have a lovely Easter and we will see you after the holidays ๐ฐ.
The Yellow Group have had a very busy month exploring Stem during nurture time. We also tasted some new food at this years Chinese New Yearย celebration as you can see the food went down a treat.
CHINESE NEW YEAR
STEM
The children were busy exploringย the straws and constructed their own unique models.
We were working as a team and building friendships within the group setting. The children were predicting which is faster or slower the car or the ball. They then constructed their own race track with the guttering.
Happy New Year ! We hope you all had a lovely Christmas holiday. We want to give a warm welcome to the new members of the Yellow Group.
Christmas seems such a long time ago; however, we have added some December pictures.
Miss Miller has been showing the Yellow group some exercises and putting them through their paces.ย We had a nice cool-down afterwards, which was well needed.
One of our favourite action songs is the “Jumping Bean” song.ย We have changed it up a bit, as the children wanted to practice their hopping skills. We now have hopping and jumping beans !
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Toothbrushing
We all have our own toothbrushes in the nursery, which the children love.ย We are getting so good at cleaning our teeth.
Our post box for our snack names really needed updating, so we decorated a new one with drawings of our favourite snacks.ย It looks amazing!
This month we have taken a snap shot of the children over a couple of afternoons showing where they enjoy “playing”. This is known as “leading their own learning”!
Through play, children experiment and explore, learning new skills such as problem solving and team working skills.ย All this play develops their cognitive, social, emotional and physical capacities.
A typical day in the life of your child
(when they tell you they did nothing at nursery they are not being 100% honest ๐)
Mark making using car wheels.Having a picnic with the junk modelling.Mark making in the soil, dried leaves and twigs.Problem solving – how do I get my dinosaur out of here?Collaboratively working together to create a large structure.Imaginative play – Hiding from the “baddies”.Pre-writing skills – Working those small muscles in our fingers to make them strong.Learning life skills while making soup.Exploring colour mixing.Showing responsibility by returning the hi-vis vest.
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Lots of concentration and hand-eye coordination skills as we thread beads.Observational drawing.Being independent – Getting ready to go outside.Sharing resources. The were enjoying drawing and having a chat ๐
Autumn Challenge Bags
Thank you for all the amazing leaf puppets and autumnal picturesย the children created and brought into nursery.ย We have proudly displayed these on our reading tree in the literacy area where they can be seen by everyone.ย ย
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Christmas Market ๐ย
We have been busy little elves creating some crafts for our Christmas market โฆ Unfortunately, we can’t show you anymore as it would ruin the surprise. ๐
We look forward to showing you more things we get up to in our December blog.ย
Welcome, the Yellow Group have had a very busy few weeks ๐.
We have been cooking up a storm in the nursery kitchen, developing our culinary skills such as slicing , mixing, rolling and cutting . We have also been learning about different countries, as well as picking our own vegetables from our nursery garden.
So come and join us on a mini tour around the world ๐.
The first stops will be Italy ๐ฎ๐น and Scotland ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ณ๓ ฃ๓ ด๓ ฟ. We grew our own courgettes in the nursery garden; hence, Scotland and green courgettes come from Northern Italy. We made courgette crisps (we quickly learned that less oil is better), courgette patties and courgette and sweetcorn soup.
“Look at the size of this courgette.”
“Help me pull these courgettes out .”
“Got it!”
“Look another one.”
“I’m cutting these courgettes. “
“We need these courgettes to be thin not thick.”
“Time to pour oil over them to make them crispy.”
“Ready to cook now.”
“Into the oven they go.”
“I am mixing for the patties.”
“Yum! These taste good.”
The next stop is France ๐ซ๐ท. We made croissants which went down a treat and baguettes ๐ฅ๐ฅ.
” I am cutting the pastry for the croissants.”
“I am cutting the croissants in half so more children can have them.”
“Look I am cutting.”
“Ready to eat.”
“I am cutting.”
“Yum!”
“So good! Can I have more please?”
“I am going to tell my mummy to make some.”
Next we returned to Italy ๐ฎ๐น, but this time it was pizza time! ๐
” I am mixing for the pizza.”
“Rolling it out.”
“It’s ready!”
“Pizza time!”
We also tried food from some other countries. We grew our own carrots from the nursery garden; hence, Scotland ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ณ๓ ฃ๓ ด๓ ฟ, but they originated from central Asia. We used these to make some lovely carrot and tomato soup. ๐ฅ๐
“It tastes so good!”
“I like it!”
We also, explored food in Mexico ๐ฒ๐ฝ for some hot chocolate (This was so popular, it was gone before we were quick enough to get pictures).
We have been learning more about the above countries, using the globe and atlas. Here are some wonderful pictures of the flags from these countries.
“Where is Scotland?”
“I am making the Scottish flag.”
“Scotland flag.”
“Look! France flag”
” I made the Scottish flag”
“Look! its the Scottish flag.”
We hope you have enjoyed our mini tour as much as we did. ๐ Why don’t you try to make something from another country in your own house?
Halloween Fun ๐๐ป
“I have pumpkin hair like Miss Miller.”
“I am Harley Quinn.”
“This is a big pumpkin.”
Happy Halloween ๐๐ป and see you next month as the preparation starts for our Christmas Markets ๐โ๏ธ๐คถ
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