{"id":2120,"date":"2026-05-15T14:10:46","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T13:10:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fi\/ferryport\/?p=2120"},"modified":"2026-05-15T14:11:52","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T13:11:52","slug":"week-beginning-11th-may-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fi\/ferryport\/2026\/05\/15\/week-beginning-11th-may-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Week Beginning 11th May 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"

Monday<\/p>\n

Today some of the children have been engaging in a variety of role\/imaginative play \u201cI\u2019m driving my car, I\u2019m going to the shops in Dundee\u201d resulting in lots of conversation about what they were going to buy at the shops. Some of the children helped clean up the digging\/mud pit outside removing stones\/boulders and objects giving us more space to dig. We found a variety of different mini beasts \u00a0when moving the rocks \u201cThere\u2019s a long worm\u201d observed one child, \u201cLook a snake!\u201d said another spotting a centipede. Inside nursery a few children were using our spoon puppets to retell the story of The Three Little pigs.<\/p>\n

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Tuesday<\/p>\n

Today some our children were demonstrating their cooking skills in the mud kitchen. On the menu today was soup and cake. Children were developing language skills whilst discussing ingredients, methods etc. The digging pit was again busy today with a few children looking for mini beasts and a few children exploring the different textures of the dry and wet mud creating lots of discussion including some mathematical language. Some children represented their ideas using the magnetic shapes to plan, design and create a variety of structures including houses, traps and towers.<\/p>\n

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Wednesday<\/p>\n

Today our pre school children started their transition visits to school where they joined other children from the community who are starting school in \u00a0August. Ferryport EYO\u2019s held a short Book Bug session with all the children before all the children visited the classroom to explore a variety of different activities. Back at nursery there was a lot of creativity at the painting table with a variety of pictures being created including frogs, butterflies and rainbows. Lots of discussion re colours and experimenting with colour mixing. Outdoors some children enjoyed competing with one another as to how many objects i.e. balls, bean bags and frizzbees they could throw into the basketball net creating lots of predictions and competitiveness.<\/p>\n

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Thursday<\/p>\n

Today some of our children helped feed our tadpoles which created lots of discussion using descriptive and predictive language as to when they would grow legs, turn into frogs etc. A few of the children were taking turns at \u2018being the teacher\u2019 using the pictures in the storybooks to retell the story to others. Outside a few children made up their own band using various instruments whilst marching around the nursery garden. Lots of children exploring different ways of using our bodies to move around e.g. on stilts, climbing, balancing etc developing hand\/eye and gross motor skills.<\/p>\n

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Friday<\/p>\n

Today a few of the children were exploring shapes at the art\/craft table and creating a variety of pictures using the shapes and developing our shape awareness and recognition.. The willow den in the garden has been creating a lot of interest with some children exploring the inside and using mathematical language to describe the den. Our PEEP session today was entitled \u2018Food For Life\u2019 we talked about different foods, likes\/dislikes and healthy\/unhealthy foods. The consensus was that a little bit of everything is ok in moderation.<\/p>\n

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Monday Today some of the children have been engaging in a variety of role\/imaginative play \u201cI\u2019m driving my car, I\u2019m going to the shops in Dundee\u201d resulting in lots of conversation about what they were going to buy at the shops. Some of the children helped clean up the digging\/mud pit outside removing stones\/boulders and … Continue reading Week Beginning 11th May 2026<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20348,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fi\/ferryport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fi\/ferryport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fi\/ferryport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fi\/ferryport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20348"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fi\/ferryport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2120"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fi\/ferryport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2120\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2144,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fi\/ferryport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2120\/revisions\/2144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fi\/ferryport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fi\/ferryport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fi\/ferryport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}