 Learning about the life cycle |
 Plants need sun and water |
 Measuring just the right amount |
 Mrs Ahmed helping the gardening team |
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 Balance skills |
 Teamwork- investigating forces |
 Traditional Scottish food |
 Measuring, chopping and cooking |
 Learning about vegetables |
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The nursery children have been busy in imaginary worlds of dinosaurs, fairies and robots:
“Look, come and see – someone lives behind this door…. It’s a spider!”
“Tinkerbell lives there.”
“Look, I found these magic beans. If I plant them they will grow into a beanstalk.”
“The dinosaurs can make footprints in the sand.”
“That one’s triceratops, that’s tyrannosaurus.”
“We need to make buttons for the robot.”
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We had a Wild Time in Busby Church Gardens:
– looking for birds and bugs, and ticking them off on our charts
– making “nests” and a “camp fire” with twigs and stones
– experimenting with balloons in the wind
– running free!
This week the children spent a long time experimenting in our
Spices Kitchen – smelling, mixing, pouring and describing as they made some very interesting potions, recipes and concoctions…
Some comments from our Young Cooks & Scientists:
“We’re mixing a new potion. Come on, let’s see what colour it makes. Potion No.1 & Potion No.2…”
“What happens when you put this in?… It’s turning yellow… now it’s turned orange.”
“How about this? This is going to be the spiciest one ever!”
“Smell ours, it’s the tastiest.”
“Now we’ve made soup…. and spicy potatoes. They smell yummy!”
“Smell the rosemary. I like that.”
“Look at our porridge. Let’s smell it. I like to put cinnamon in my porridge.”
“They turn squooshy in the water (oats)…
not crunchy.”
If anyone in the family has old/out-of-date spices not needed, please feel free to donate them for further experiments!
Outdoors this week we have had fun and used our creative skills to make and explore Scottish landscapes, with lochs, waterfalls and our very own Nessie.
On Wednesdays our football coach comes to visit us. We love playing football in our new MUGA!
This morning, we were playing on the see-saws. We were learning to balance on them and transfer our weight from one side to the other.
I was scared of letting go of the teacher in case I fell but I took my time and learned how to balance on my own. My teacher was very proud of me.
We were enjoying balancing so we decided to borrow a bench from the gym hall to walk along. We turned it upside down and it was very hard to balance on. We also used our building blocks to make stepping stones.
I decided to but objects on each end of the see-saw. I noticed that when I made one side heavier, that side would fall down.
We are learning all about 2D and 3D shapes.
We have been making shapes outdoors with beans, peas and pipe cleaners.
“My favourite is the triangle.”
Currently our numeracy and mathematics focus is 2D shapes and 3D objects.
The children have been exploring this concept in lots of different ways in the nursery.
See if you can spot different shapes and objects at home and out and about. At lunch time we noticed that some of our sandwiches are rectangles and some are triangles.
I was posting shapes into the shape monsters!
We noticed that our outdoor number logs are circles.
We noticed that balls, or spheres, roll.
We can use different shaped objects to build. Shapes with round edges are harder to build with.
We decorated circle plates.
We used small cubes to build a mountain range and a pyramid. We love being creative in our maths learning!
We went to Pollok Park for our Summer trip this year. On our journey we visited Fairyland, climbed big hills, explored the wild woods, identified dinosaur bones and found various vegetables growing in the gardens. It was exciting to spot newts, tadpoles and dragonflies at the pond!
We have also been making the most of the good weather exploring and discovering in our playground and in the church garden.
“It feels all spiky…” “It’s a monkey puzzle.”
