Category Archives: Group Pink

Group Blue, Group Green, Group Pink, Group Purple, Group Red, Group Yellow, Health & Wellbeing

Moving On Up…

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Here are photos of our fabulous pre-school children receiving their school tie and graduation certificate this June. Congratulations!
We will miss you very much and we wish you all a wonderful time in Primary 1 and a very happy future.
We proudly present the Busby Nursery Class of 2021:

Pink Group


Yellow Group


 

Red Group


 

Green Group


 

Blue Group





Purple Group







We also say a most fond farewell to nursery staff members,
Miss Hampton, Miss Lawson and Mrs McCarron, who are all moving on too. We are so grateful for all they have done for Busby Nursery and we will miss them very much.

 

Eco Learning, Group Blue, Group Green, Group Pink, Group Purple, Group Red, Group Yellow, Literacy, Natural World, Outdoor Learning, Science, Social Subjects

Bugs Glorious Bugs

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There has been much excitement among all the nursery groups over looking at various live insects and mini-beasts these past weeks. The children have shown a huge interest in learning about them and caring for them:
– On trips to Busby church gardens we have found wood lice, worms, millipedes, slugs and beetles under damp logs and studied them with magnifiers. We looked up more about them in books too.


– In our nursery garden the children have prepared their Bug Hotel and have been excited to observe a few visitors, like spiders.


Spider books and spider crafts: “What’s this one called?”

– The children have also been studying four snails in the outdoor classroom. We found that snails love to eat basil and that they each have four antennae, two for seeing, and two for smelling and feeling.


The children were fascinated to watch the snails come out of their shells and observe how they move and eat, and the trails they leave. They gave the snails names too.
“This one is called Rainbow Drop.”
“This is Daisy.”
“Let’s feed them. They like to eat this”
“Look, they’re kissing!”
“They have slime under them.”

– And we have also all been following the journey of our nursery caterpillars with great excitement:

The children watched them journey through their life cycle, turning from caterpillars to chrysalides and then last week to beautiful tortoiseshell butterflies.

They were so excited to release our butterflies into the wild. Suggestions for names of the butterflies were also very interesting.  Toby, Neeva and Pixie were a few of the favourites.
It’s been so good to watch the children loving and appreciating nature.

Creative Arts, Fine motor skills, Group Pink, Group Yellow, Literacy, Science

Fishy Letters

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The children have been loving fishing for letters using magnetic rods, and were delighted to find letters they know.
“Look I found a M for my Mum.”
“I found a T for my name.”
“That’s a S for snake.”
“Look , it picked up this coin too!”

They also wanted to make more rods and design their own fish using painting, printing and collage, adding their initial letter on the back and a paper clip to attract the magnet.

Eco Learning, Fine motor skills, Fun, Gardening, Group Green, Group Pink, Group Red, Group Yellow, Natural World, Numeracy & Mathematics, Outdoor Learning, Science

Green Fingers

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The children have been busy working  with staff doing all kinds of Planting and Growing. We have created a Herb Garden and an outdoor and indoor Vegetable Garden, which are all thriving.
Take a look at this poster in our front window to find out more!

The children have grown Grassheads (“We cut their hair with scissors ‘cos it was growing too long”), and have planted rosemary, basil, radishes, carrots, courgettes, peas, tomatoes, spring onions, potatoes and runner beans, plus marigolds and bluebells for butterflies. They have been excited to watch the plants grow and have been watering and measuring them.
“We need sun, water and soil.”
“Butterflies like marigolds.”
“We looked after them.”





See how they’ve grown…

 

 

Fun, Group Blue, Group Green, Group Pink, Group Purple, Group Red, Group Yellow, Health & Wellbeing, Outdoor Learning

Fitness Focus

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In Fitness Week we’ve all been honing our athletic skills with a variety of challenges. The children have been using and building on their core strength, balance and co-ordination, jumping, hopping, throwing and catching skills. The sunny weather has given us the perfect conditions for our sporty week!

Ball skills

The Javelin Throw Challenge


The Sack Race – Ready, steady…jump!

The Long Jump revealed some great athleticism

Dribbling Skills

High Jump


Orientation skills – over, under, upside down!



Bumper Obstacle course challenge  – she shoots, she scores!

Two ways to cool down – watch out for the water squirter!
Or alternatively try some  relaxing mindful meditation….

 

Creative Arts, Fine motor skills, Fun, Group Pink, Group Yellow, Imaginary Play, Literacy, Natural World, Outdoor Learning, Science, Social Subjects

Where did we come from…?

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Some of the children were talking about the extinction of the dinosaurs and asking when the Ice Age and humans came. One of our children also wrote a fantastic story called “Dinosaur Skeleton Bones.” So we have been studying a bit about Evolution, using The Story of Life book in the Story Box, along with lots of props and books to explore.

“These are chimpanzees. They turned into cavemen.”
“Dinosaurs evolved into alligators.”
“We came from that…” (pointing at small furry mammals in book)
“Some creatures came out of the water… This one flies.”

Re-enacting the moment when a meteorite hit Planet Earth.

We also tried making bones, fossils, skulls and footprints using clay with tools, toy dinosaurs and some fossil moulds:
“That one’s an ammonite. What is this one called?”


We buried them in sand and pretended to be Archaelogists and Paleontologists, digging with brushes and other tools.

“I found a bone!”      “Look! A T-Rex footprint!”

To dig up this Ice Age man and Sabre-toothed Cat, the children worked out the quickest way to melt the ice. They tried warm water, salt, chisels and saws… They were then fascinated to study and name all the different body parts, take them apart, and put them together.


“Is this his heart?” “That’s a brain!” “More salt- that’s working.”





Painting our clay volcano and fossils
“I made a  handprint fossil and a shell one.”

Later we tried an outdoor science experiment – we built a volcano using sand and water and then created a volcanic  eruption by mixing vinegar with bicarbonate of soda.

Watch our eruption!

Fine motor skills, Group Pink, Group Yellow, Health & Wellbeing, Imaginary Play, Literacy, Mark Making, Outdoor Learning, Science, Technology & Construction

May Days and Creative Ways

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The children have been using all kinds of exciting creativity in their play. Great minds at work!

Planting our herb garden and creative cup stacking. “Tah dah!”


Young Scientists in the Making:
“Scientists work really hard.”  “Can I be a scientist?

Helicopter Stories:
In Helicopter Stories, the children make up their own stories and are then each given the “stage” to act out their story, with friends taking part as various actors. It is great for building self confidence, esteem, focus, and talking and listening skills. We have had some wonderful stories, including “The Rhino and the Fight”, “The Orange Dog”, “The Magical Unicorn Food” and “The Red Racing Car.”


Some of the children wanted to create their own puppet show too. Great acting and storytelling skills were on display!

The children wanted to turn an old cardboard box into a den and had lots of great ideas about how to design, decorate and upholster it:


And for Mrs McInnes’s special birthday this week, they carefully designed her cards and created a very special cake:


“Happy Birthday, Mrs McInnes!”

 

Community, Eco Learning, Fine motor skills, Fun, Group Pink, Group Yellow, Health & Wellbeing, Natural World, Outdoor Learning, Science, Social Subjects

The Joys of Spring

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We had a lovely morning exploring the joys of spring in nearby Busby Church gardens. The children loved the freedom of the outdoors and they went on a Colour Hunt, finding blossom, daffodils, dandelions, stones, and bugs under logs. They were very excited to discover and study wood lice, slugs, worms, centipedes and bees, and they took great care to look after the nature around them. We also had fun trying out different viewpoints – including  lying down and upside down…


“We found bugs and snails.” “Wood louse is brown.”




The children found “pink blossom”, “brown tree stumps”, “a green tree”, “white stones”, “yellow daffodil heads”, “blue sky” and “purple pansies” on their Colour Hunt.
We have also started to look at the life cycles of various creatures, including frogs, and match them to their habitats.
 “Worm lives in the ground!”   “Bird in the nest.”

Here is a video of some tadpoles that Mrs MacLeod was lucky to see in a small pond last weekend. What other new life have you seen growing this Spring? Let us know!

Creative Arts, Eco Learning, Fine motor skills, Gardening, Group Pink, Group Yellow, Imaginary Play, Literacy, Natural World, Numeracy & Mathematics, Outdoor Learning, Science, Sensory Play, Technology & Construction

Science Adventures: Space and Planting

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The Wonders of Space

The children in Pink and Yellow groups have recently showed an interest in learning about Space, so they have been designing rockets and reading the story of Little Moon in the Story Box to find out more about planets and black holes…


Exploring the Story Box and experimenting with different sphere shapes


Rocket Number Games and Play Dough Aliens


Creating Rocket Designs and Junk Modelling

We also tried making some paper mâché planets by mixing up a paste of water and flour, dipping in newspaper strips and tissue paper, then wrapping them around balloons.

“I think that one looks like our planet – Earth.”
“This one looks like Mars and that one is the sun.”
“Rover is on Mars.”
“Craters are on the moon.”
Earth has “more water” than land.
“That’s a gas giant!”

The children also began some other experiments with balloons and discovered static electricity when they found they could rub the balloons and make them stick to the walls.

Planting and Growing

Mrs McInnes has been showing the children how to plant grass seeds to make Grass Heads, and they have been learning what a plant needs to grow.

We have been carefully watering the plants for 2 weeks and look how quickly the grassy hair grew!


Time for a hair cut!

Some other outdoor fun in the sun!


 

Fine motor skills, Food & Cookery, Fun, Group Pink, Group Yellow, Life Skills, Numeracy & Mathematics, Science

Easter Treats!

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Making Easter Nests

The children in the yellow and pink group have been learning and talking about nests. We decided that we would make our own easter egg nests!

We all took turns melting the chocolate, mixing the chocolate and the rice krispies together in a bowl! We learned how to scrape the mixture into our cupcake cases by using two spoons and we all did this using our hand eye co-ordination!

‘1,2,3 eggs’

‘We used mini eggs and chocolate rice krispies’

‘We put chocolate and cereal in our nests’

‘I can’t wait to eat mine when I go home!’

‘It smells so nice!’

‘The chocolate was soft and then it went hard!’

We then counted out 3 mini eggs and placed them on our nest! Lastly, we found our plastic bag and picked the one that had our name on it and put our Easter nests in it ready  for us to take home for the Easter holidays!

We all wish the children and their families a very Happy Easter 2021 and we are looking forward to welcoming you back on the 19th April. Happy Holidays!