Category Archives: Group Purple

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.

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….

 

Gardening, Group Blue, Group Purple, Group Red, Health & Wellbeing, Imaginary Play, Literacy, Mark Making, Outdoor Learning, Science

Fun in the Sun

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The children in the Purple, Blue, Green and Red groups have settled well back into nursery. We have been taking advantage of the lovely weather with lots of exciting outdoor learning experiences such as pouring/ filling in water tray, painting, planting, reading and developing our gross motor skills on the bikes.

Group Purple, Health & Wellbeing, Outdoor Learning, Technology & Construction

Feeling thankful with the Purple Group

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This week the children have been helping Mrs Walker develop our block area, the children have shown a particular interest in building castles, they have been developing their mathematical language as they described their castles.

‘My castle is taller than ………., but hers is longer’ 

‘I built a long castle for the Queen’ 

‘My castle is like the Statue of Liberty, really tall and the colour teal, the statue of Liberty is in New York in America’

As part of Health and Wellbeing Week, we have been discovering what our peers are thankful for. The children thought carefully about this, and posted their answer in our gratitude jar.

‘I am thankful for my Mum’ 

‘I am thankful when my Grandpa kisses and hugs me’ 

‘I am thankful because my Mum takes me to the park all the time’ 

We have also been taking part in a wide range of activities outdoors. We were making muddy handprints and creating obstacle courses, developing their gross motor skills and problem solving skills. Well done everyone.

 

Eco Learning, Fine motor skills, Food & Cookery, Fun, Group Purple, Life Skills, Literacy, Numeracy & Mathematics, Science, Uncategorised

Potions and Pumpkins 🎃 with the Purple Group

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We read ‘Meg and Mog’ and ‘I think my Mum is a Witch’, inspiring us to use our imaginations and create our own spooky stories.

 

Working collaboratively with our peers we successfully made Pumpkin Soup. We carefully deseeded the pumpkin, using our fine motor skills to chop the pumpkin and other vegetables.

We developed our problem solving skills as we measured and weighed the ingredients.

The children then had the opportunity to taste their creation. ‘This soup is amazing’- R

We created our own potions using  play dough and a variety of other resources, we retold the spells from the book developing our language skills.

We developed our fine motor, sensory and number recognition skills as we matched and counted spiders 🕷 and snakes 🐍 using tweezers in a variety of different experiences.

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Autumn Adventures with the Purple Group

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The Purple group went on an Autumn Walk, exploring their local environment, hunting for signs of Autumn.

We successfully found conkers, pine cones, beautifully coloured leaves and lots of sticks.

When we returned to Nursery, we matched, sorted and counted all our findings #mathsweekScotland

We created different autumnal scenes using the leaves, pine cones and sticks from our Autumn Walk.

Inspired by our Autumn Walk, the children have been fascinated to learn more about Autumn.  We have been reading books about Autumn, ‘The Very Helpful Hedgehog’ and ‘Christopher Pumpkin’ were voted our favourite by the children this week.

Inspired by these books the children have been using their imagination, creating their own stories, retelling the stories and recalling their favourite parts and characters.

We have some beautiful Autumn provocations to inspire us and allow the children to explore and encourage their interests and expand their knowledge.

Creative Arts, Fun, Group Purple, Health & Wellbeing, Loose Parts, Mark Making, Numeracy & Mathematics, Sensory Play

Purple Group Adventures

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The Purple Group have settled back into Nursery life really well.  We have been establishing old and new friendships, following routines and learning lots of exciting things.

We have been spending a  lot of time outdoors, accessing all aspects of the curriculum.

We love getting our wet suits on and exploring in the rain.

We have been exploring symmetry through a variety of different experiences.  The children  created butterflies and used transient art to develop their awareness of symmetry in their local environment.

Making tea in the water tray stimulated our senses. We have enjoyed taking part in a lot of different sensory activities across the playroom and outdoors.