The children helped to develop a new area in the garden. Working together they showed great perseverance as they worked as a team.

The result.

Esmé created more interest to the area by adding stones, logs and animals.

“Its a dinosaur world.”

Both nursery sessions took part in the Jack and the Beanstalk fundraising walk around the village. They developed their numeracy skills as they found the beans around the village and updated their data collection charts.

Thank you for all the sponsorship money towards our puppet show experience.

As part of our current learning wall about the world of work the nursery was fortunate to welcome some adults into the nursery to discuss their job role. Developing the Young Workforce encourages young people to consider the skills they will need to develop for future career opportunities. We learned the importance of developing numeracy and literacy skills for all the adult roles.

So far we have had discussions about working in retail, teaching and driver instruction.

Thank you to Mrs Stone, Mrs Brown and Mrs Bird for their interesting talks and answering the children’s questions. We have learned some sign language to help communicate, we have looked at the Highway Code and role played sending letters and parcels at the post office.

Transient art is known as moveable art, it is a collection of materials that children can use to create a picture. The materials that are used are open-ended resources, and there is no permanent end product.

It allows children to create and explore without feeling the pressure of producing an end product. They can experiment and move the parts as their ideas develop. They are also developing their fine motor skills as they manipulate the small loose parts.

Freya shared.

“I made a picture of spots and a picture of me and mummy.”

The nursery children have been independently creating their own puppet shows. A few children have based their performance on familar stories – retelling “The Gruffalo” and “Goldilocks and the Three Bears.” Other children are enjoying the freedom to create animal stories using the wide variety of puppets available.

The nursery children suggested we could raise money towards their Clydebuilt Puppet Theatre performance by holding a cake sale.

The children participated fully in the event. Thy helped to set up the cake stalls,  write price labels, serve the cakes, handle cash and count the money raised. Thank you to all who donated cakes and attended the events the sum raised was £33.15.

Balmullo Primary School and Nursery are an official collection point site supporting the Toy Drive. The children have been discussing that it is kind to share if you are able to – not every family is fortunate to have gifts at Christmas.

The Christmas gifts will be collected at the end of November and distributed to Children and Families in need across North East Fife.

The nursery children were delighted to operate their own pop-up shop. After harvesting our potato and apple crop in the nursery garden and with additional apples kindly donated from Mrs Wills to sell we had quite a stall. The children developed their technology skills by looking up recipes to suggest to their customers. Samuel said he likes potato and leek soup at his grans. Freya suggested apple and blackberry crumble.

There were lots of learning opportunities across the curriculum. The children developed literacy skills as they wrote signs and engaged in conversation in their shop keeper role. Connor asked – “What would you like at the shop?”

As the children counted out the items and handled cash they developed their numeracy skills using the appropriate vocabulary of change, pence and pounds.

The children shared all the roles within the shop and worked as a team, taking orders, counting produce, holding the bags open and handling the cash. They related the experience to shops they visit with their families. They noticed that the local shop has one person doing all the jobs but big shops have lots of staff.

We have  been learning about using money in the nursery. We had regular visits to the local shop and role-played being a shop keeper and customer . We wrote shopping lists and used real coins in transactions whilst counting and matching. A few children looked on the Smartboard to access illustrations of notes and made their own £5, £10, £20 and £50 notes.

 “Yogido -Fun yoga that everyone can do.”

The children had fun developing their skills – strength, coordination, flexibility and balance alongside an increasing feeling of self confidence as they challenged themselves.

Today they practised a few basic postures -Big Star, Shooting Star, Tree, Lion, Ant, Cat and Cow. We will be having regular sessions in the nursery encorporating the yoga into games and rhymes.

Malcom shared his favourite. “Big Star.”

Freya enthusiastically demonstrated her favourite postures.

” I liked Big Star and Tree – like this!”

The whole family can join in at home as children can demonstrate their learning.