It’s our first week back at nursery and we have had lots of fun together as we learn. Here is a look at what we have been up to…

Groups of children have been exploring their mark making skills through different media’s as they look at mixing colours, pattern making and detail work.

Children have been using the loose parts in the home corner to help extend their play as Fraser uses wool for spaghetti and conkers for bolognese.

Groups of children have been exploring their numeracy skills as they use the coloured vehicles to make groups of colours or type of vehicle and looking at adding collections together to get a total sum.

Children have been extending their literacy skills through use of books and story cards to look at story sequencing and developing their language.

Leo and Brodie were investigating the ice outside as they discussed how ice is formed and how it feels when they touch it.

Children have been using ribbons to explore rhythm and movement as they dance along to a song on the whiteboard with their peers.

Children have also been using the wooden song spoons to sing along to songs together. The children’s favourite was 5 currant buns and they used money to give to one another during the song to show an awareness of buying and selling.

Following along with this, children also set up their own shop area to use money and create prices for items where they explored simple addition of items and making simple amounts using coins as they identified the different coin types.

Some children explored using the wooden number slices where they ordered numbers 0-20, identified a missing number and also a number in between 2 given numbers. The children showed independence and also asked for support when they knew they needed it.

Children have been continuing their interest in numbers as they explore matching quantities to the number. The children were keen to join in and shared their learning with others.

Reminders:

• The weather can change suddenly and we would ask that you wrap your children up super cosy for nursery with gloves, scarves, hats etc for outside play as the children can play outside in all weathers.
• Peep and bookbug sessions will continue again at the end of the month and we will keep you updated with the dates when we have these. These will both continue on a Thursday morning.
• We will update you with the forest start date when we have it.

Have a great weekend! ☺️

This week learning is… creativity, motor skills, team work, communication, balancing skills, hand/eye coordination, numeracy, literacy, self confidence, exploring, Predicting, Being Curious, Sharing, Self-Esteem, Technology, Outdoor Learning and Problem Solving.

Monday 16th December

Today a group of children independently wrote their last Christmas letters for Santa. They could confidently discuss what they would like from Santa and formed beautiful writing that Santa could read.

Today a group of children have been exploring the home corner as they were building relationships with their peers and worked together using loose parts in the home corner to make breakfast for each other.

Today was an exciting day as there was 3 doors to open on the advent calendar. The children could confidently discuss how many sleeps it was until Santa was coming and counted 9 sleeps to go!

Tuesday 17th December

Today a group of children enjoyed two stories one called each peach pear plum and chocolate moose for greedy goose. The children identified that the stories were similar by having rhyming words.

Today Joni and Rosie enjoyed dancing expressively and playfully as they followed the gestures and movements from kids Zumba dance videos. They confidently followed the steps shown and knew when the next steps were coming by following the timer.

This morning the children demonstrated their creative skills to paint Christmas images such as a Robin, Snowman and Santa on Christmas cards. They listened to advice about not to mix up the colour so it allows their peers to be able to paint a picture afterwards. They also recalled the need to wait and share the brushes with peers. Afterwards when they are dry they will be developing their skills to write a message inside the card to give to someone special.

Wednesday 18th December

Today has been a creative day in the nursery with the children exploring both the art area and the writing area.

Today a group of children got creative by making pictures of a stingray and tortoise using the block paint. They were aware they had to create different colours by mixing the paint.

Today Joni and Sehrish created a lovely picture using different colours and made different patterns with the paint by mixing the colours independently.

Today Cameron became creative in the art area as he used his fine motor skills to cut paper to create a rocket.

Today Luke created a map for finding treasure “it’s going to have stuff on it to see where you are going”.

Thursday 19th December

Today a group of children helped make delicious snacks for our Christmas party. “That’s top hats.” The children helped melt the chocolate and put the sprinkles on the top hats to make them more festive.

The yummy snack making continued as a group of children helped decorate the gingerbread house with melted chocolate, icing, sprinkles and sweeties.

Today a group of children enjoyed exploring the Photo Booth as they carefully picked props to use to get a special Christmas photo. “Let’s get a photo of all of us.”

Today all of our nursery children enjoyed their Christmas party with games such as pass the parcel, corners and even a visit from a special guest who brought them all a present each. The children were thankful for their gift and even gave Santa a special gift to keep him going until Christmas Day.

Friday 20th December

Today for festive Friday all children in the nursery created stockings that they put things in to take home for their families.

Today a group of children worked with Miss Nelson to create a paper snowman chain and decorated it.

All the children sang Happy Birthday to Robin as he celebrates his 5th birthday tomorrow. The children enjoyed some cake that was shaped as a snowman and had melted chocolate on it. “It’s so yummy.”

Our Cosy Time Library 📚 This will be available to families at drop off and pick up time every day for you and your child to choose a book to take home to read 🏡There is no time limit on our library books we would just ask that you sign the book with your child’s name, the title of the book they have taken, the date it was taken and when it was returned ✍️There will be pens and hand sanitiser available for you to sign the books in and out. If your child has any special requests for a certain book please ask a member of staff or send a message on seesaw and we can help you 😃There will be a folder with your child’s name for them to put the book in for its journey to home and back 📁A tray will be available for you to put in your returned books so we can quarantine and clean them before putting them on display again, if you have any questions, any member of staff would be happy to help ☺️

Reminders

• Can all parents label items of  your child’s clothing.
• Can all parents put in at least one full change of clothing for water play and accidents.
• Can all parents if your child has a packed lunch can we please ensure grapes and big fruits are cut to minimise the risk of choking.🍇
• Can we remind all parents\carers to park in a white space only as the yellow spaces are for staff only.
• Can all parents ensure your child has a set of waterproofs and wellies to play outside when it’s wet.
• Our nursery blog is sent out every week on a Friday afternoon.
• If your child is going to be picked up by someone else, please let the ladies know or the office so we are aware.
• Can we ensure that your child is dressed appropriately for the weather.
• Can we ensure when you are leaving the nursery that the gate is locked.
• There is learning at home sheets available in the nursery to share your child’s learning and experiences you do at home.
• Forest is on Tuesday where we meet at Waterstone crook car park from 9:00-9:15. Can we also just make you aware that with the hot and humid weather that tics may be around in the forest area so encourage you to check your child after every forest session incase any have made their way home on your child!

  💭Any changes to your child’s Diet or Medication? Please speak with one of the Team who can support you.

  Loose Parts

  We are always in need of replenishing our loose parts in nursery. If you are out and about on walks, or are planning to recycle items, can we ask that you think of us first please 😃

   

  We hope you all have a great Christmas holiday, we can’t wait to hear all about it.

The Nursery Team 

Hello everyone, we hope you have had a great week! Here is a look at what we have been up to in nursery…..

This week learning is… Exploring, Predicting, Being Curious, Literacy, Mathematics, Sharing, Self-Esteem, Creativity, Motor Skills, Turn Taking, Technology, Outdoor Learning and Problem Solving.

This week in Nursery the children have been very busy further developing their current enterprise project creating lots of play dough poop. They used non standard tools to measure the ingredients, they used skills to mix and discussed the reasons why we needed to use heat to bring the dough together. They added spices for  the gingerbread man  that stimulated a discussion on their likes or dislikes whilst using their senses  to describe the other flavourings of chocolate or peppermint.. They all followed the different processes of manipulating the dough into the equal sized balls, creating groups of four. Then the bagging stage, adding the  labels next. This activity inspired others to join in, showing a growing understanding of waiting their turn and being able to do the next ones.

        

This lead to questions being asked about reindeers.. “Do reindeer fly?

“What do reindeer eat?

“Where do reindeer live?

This will be taken forward and then displayed onto our current learning wall.

Today the children extended their learning interest in reindeers in doing some research to find the answers to their questions, and enjoyed watching a short video that explained how Santa’s sleigh.

“They eat green things like grass and leaves”

“They live in the cold”

“Santa’s sleigh has power”

Throughout the week the children have been involved in a range of Christmas  themed activities such as developing  their writing skills in writing out a last minute Christmas wish list. They also recalled the need to sign their name at the bottom. They have also been creative in making cards for a special person that incorporated their own ideas on what a certain Christmas theme item looked like, bringing their experiences seen of these.We had a lovely Christmas Book Bug session with Miss Nelson and Mrs Laing to which all the children attended and enjoyed singing songs and listening to some Christmas stories.

 

Following on from their interest in the play dough making a large snowman dough poop with sparkles was made for the children to enjoy developing their manipulation skills to create a range of shapes and designs. This activity promoted social interaction with all to experience sharing their thoughts on the texture. smell anda discussion on the weather conditions linking it to the snow and ice. They also discussed a range of animals that live in these conditions, to which we have more research to do on a few popular animals. This will be researched over the next few days to be added to the wall.

Outside the children have been making the most of the dry weather incorporating a range of team games, and role situations using a range of loose parts to further develop the play. Some children were using skills to investigate speed. One child was using a bike and the other was running and they both came to discover that the bike was the fastest.

Although we didn’t make the forest this week we still had lots of fun down the bottom garden with the fire to toas marshmellows and make a smore along with a hot chocolate. The children enjoyed exploring the frost on the ground investigating the ice in the tyres, to climbing trees.

Reminders.

Wednesday 18th December 2024  –  Nursery Sing=a=long starting at 2.30 pm

Thursday 19th December 2024    –    Nursery Christmas Party in the afternoon.

Friday 20th December 2024         –     Last day of term. Nursery reopens on Monday 9th January 2025

 

With the changing  seasonal and varied weather conditions  ☔️❄️🥶, please remember to provide your child with welly boots, waterproof clothing, hat, gloves 🧤, scarf🧣 and at least 1 full change of clothes in your child’s bag.

Loose Parts

We are always in need of replenishing our loose parts in nursery. If you are out and about on walks, or are planning to recycle items, can we ask that you think of us first please 😃

Here is some of the items we are looking for:

Conkers, stones, shells, tea cups, sticks, picture frames, plates, wood, drainpipes, etc,  anything you think might be of used in nursery.

We hope you have a lovely weekend and we will see you all on Monday for another great fun filled week!

Mrs Wilson and the rest of the Nursery team. x

 

 

 

Hello everyone, we hope you have had a great week, here is a look at what we have been up to this week….

 

Flora made her very own snowman in the sand tray. Floral used the loose parts to add features to her snowman for arms and mark making buttons, eyes and a nose.

 

The children had a great time in the garden for our forest session yesterday. We explored a range of movement skills using loose parts. Luke used a stick and created his own drum using a boat to tap on.

 

Robin and Cammy were experimenting with some ice and how it was melting. Cammy said “I’m changing this into water”.

 

A group of children used clay to create a range of different models and structures. The children inspired one another through their imaginative use of loose parts. The children then made their own signs to go with the models to show what they had made.

 

 

A group of children used the musical instruments to play along to a range of Christmas songs that we were singing. They were working on keeping the beat and a rhythm.

A small group made their own motorhome using loose parts outside after asking questions to find out more. The boys shared the resources well and shared their ideas between one another.

A group of children took part in an intentional promotion which introduced matching coins, making amounts and identifying coins. We did this in preparation for buying and selling and exploring money when selling our enterprise project.

Children have been role playing being the ladies in the nursery as they plan and take part in a gym session. They used clip board and pencils to write down their ideas and used resources in the garden to make a gym session plan.

 

Children have been using the blocks to explore measuring in different ways. We tried using tape measures first and then used our hands to count out home many hands it took to get from top to bottoms.

Children have started to sell their Christmas enterprise projects and are very excited to share these with families. We will have these on sale up until the end of term to try and raise money for resources chosen by the children.

 

Reminders:

• can we remind parents in the morning that the white spaces are for parents to park in and not the yellow ones as these are for staff members who may not start until 9:00am when children are arriving and need to park.
• we will have our enterprise projects on sale at drop off and pick up.
• Bookbug will be on Thursday just after drop off in the huts which will be festive themed.

 

Have a lovely weekend and we will see you next week! 😄

This week learning is… creativity, motor skills, team work, communication, balancing skills, hand/eye coordination, numeracy, literacy, self confidence, exploring, Predicting, Being Curious, Sharing, Self-Esteem, Technology, Outdoor Learning and Problem Solving.

Today a group of children have been dancing playfully and expressively while repeated movements and gestures from the smart board and peers while dancing along to Scottish country music in the run up to St Andrews day.

Today a group of children got creative in the block area and created a robot.“We’re building a robot it can turn its eyes around. We’re making the arms because we forgot to build them. This robot is going to help us clean up. This is how to make the arms we put the brick through this one.”

Today a group of children got creative in the wood work bench developing their fine motor skills and hand/eye coordination by hammering nails into wood and egg cartons. “I’ve created a boat and sellotaped it shut so the baddies don’t get my treasure.” “I need goggles on to keep my eyes safe.”

Today at the forest a group of children all went up to the fallen down tree and used their bodies to jump up and down on the branch to make them move 😄

Today a group of children were using the large tree in the forest to sell ice-creams. They checked to see what flavours the customers ordered and then made a production like on who made them and who would hand them over.

Today at the forest, a small group of children explored using sticks to dig and scrape at the mud to see what they could find.

Today a group of children have created their own house using the crates and a picnic blanket. “We built it so we don’t get the cold air”

Today Brodie created his very own hopscotch using the coloured markers for his peers to explore. “You have to do one foot then two foot, there’s 16 steps all together”.

Today Jude is beginning to explore throwing and catching a ball outside with Miss McKenzie. Jude is also beginning to recognise his own and others achievements as he says “yeeeey” when Miss McKenzie or him catch the ball without it dropping 😄

Today a group of children worked together to support each other with the rules on how to play the recycling game.

Today a group of children have been exploring the frost/ice in the garden this morning. This sparked discussion on how ice is formed. “It’s made out of snow” other peers then joined the conversation and shared “it has to be really cold for the ice to come”

Today a group of children explored how to make it snow in the garden. The group of children found a higher up area using the shed roof so that the snow would fall down. A couple of peers  used the bats to scrape the snow while another peer threw a ring so it slid down and chained the snow to fall off.

Our Cosy Time Library 📚 This will be available to families at drop off and pick up time every day for you and your child to choose a book to take home to read 🏡There is no time limit on our library books we would just ask that you sign the book with your child’s name, the title of the book they have taken, the date it was taken and when it was returned ✍️There will be pens and hand sanitiser available for you to sign the books in and out. If your child has any special requests for a certain book please ask a member of staff or send a message on seesaw and we can help you 😃There will be a folder with your child’s name for them to put the book in for its journey to home and back 📁A tray will be available for you to put in your returned books so we can quarantine and clean them before putting them on display again, if you have any questions, any member of staff would be happy to help ☺️

Reminders

• Can all parents label items of  your child’s clothing.
• Can all parents put in at least one full change of clothing for water play and accidents.
• Can all parents if your child has a packed lunch can we please ensure grapes and big fruits are cut to minimise the risk of choking.🍇
• Can we remind all parents\carers to park in a white space only as the yellow spaces are for staff only.
• Can all parents ensure your child has a set of waterproofs and wellies to play outside when it’s wet.
• Our nursery blog is sent out every week on a Friday afternoon.
• If your child is going to be picked up by someone else, please let the ladies know or the office so we are aware.
• Can we ensure that your child is dressed appropriately for the weather.
• Can we ensure when you are leaving the nursery that the gate is locked.
• There is learning at home sheets available in the nursery to share your child’s learning and experiences you do at home.
• Forest is on Tuesday where we meet at Waterstone crook car park from 9:00-9:15. Can we also just make you aware that with the hot and humid weather that tics may be around in the forest area so encourage you to check your child after every forest session incase any have made their way home on your child!

  💭Any changes to your child’s Diet or Medication? Please speak with one of the Team who can support you.

  Loose Parts

  We are always in need of replenishing our loose parts in nursery. If you are out and about on walks, or are planning to recycle items, can we ask that you think of us first please 😃

   

  We hope you all have a great weekend.

The Nursery Team 

Hello everyone, we hope you have had a great week! Here is a look at what we have been up to in nursery…..

This week learning is… Exploring, Predicting, Being Curious, Literacy, Mathematics, Sharing, Self-Esteem, Creativity, Motor Skills, Turn Taking, Technology, Outdoor Learning and Problem Solving.

This week we have seen lots of children developing their own learning through asking lots of questions demonstrating skills to research, recall the new learning and create their own images of these animals. This is now creating a fabulous learning  wall. of lots of different animals being researched. We have had questions being shared from their homes such as chickens, tigers, giraffe., panadas and many more such as a Mammoth. This came from one child at snack using cucumber has tusks that inspired others to talk about elephants leading onto Mammoth research.  We have had children sharing their parents favourite animals. I could keep going on, but please take time to look at the wall as you come into the nursery or take a learning sheet home to share with your child. The children have also been enjoying exploring the resources displaying skills to match and sort the animals.

Some of the questions asked…..

“How fast do tigers go?

How big are giraffes?

“What are Mammoths?.

 

    

Also this week the children have been sharing their knowledge and understanding on People who help us when we have been evaluating the learning topic.

 

        

This week we have also been promoting the forth coming St Andrews day celebration through creating a weaving pattern and looking at the different tartans available. This continues from the weaving and threading area that has recently been promoted in the setting.

At snack the children are continuing voicing their opinions on whether they liked the snack that day through a mark making experience. Hotdogs seems to be the favourite at the moment. One child enjoyed sharing his knowledge on fruit, recognising that it was healthy for him, and sugar was not. We also celebrated Alfie’s 5th birthday on Thursday and we all hope that he has a lovely day on Friday.

The children are continuing to enjoy a session of cosmic yoga each day after lunchtime and they are developing their skills to move their bodies into an array of positions.

Outside there have been opportunities to enjoy the nice cold weather sharing their thoughts on how it made them feel, what they have been noticing such as the leaves falling, jack frost and discovering what creatures are about. This week we had a visit from a pheasant whilst enjoying one of the many walks around the school ground. They have found mole hills, a beehive even a horse. On Friday whilst outside a group of children observed how the planes made wriggly lines and straight ones too which lead to sharing holiday experiences and their travel journeys. This lead onto discussing how the moon comes out during the day too. Another possible learning wall topic for outside.  This lead to the adults setting up a turf tray of cloud dough which feel and looks like snow for the children to explore and investigate.

We are also being extremely busy continuing with the nursery’s enterprise scheme making  items to sell over the coming weeks.

Some children are preparing for the Christmas period singing and playing instruments to the tune of Jingle bells having lots of fun sharing and exploring the instruments.

 

Reminders.

Tuesday 3rd December 2024  –  Forest Kindergarten.  Meet at 9.00 am 9.15 am at Waterstone Crook car park.

Thursday 5th December 2024    –  BOOK BUG session starting at 9.15 am with Miss Nelson.

 

With the changing  seasonal and varied weather conditions  ☔️❄️🥶, please remember to provide your child with welly boots, waterproof clothing, hat, gloves 🧤, scarf🧣 and at least 1 full change of clothes in your child’s bag.

Loose Parts

We are always in need of replenishing our loose parts in nursery. If you are out and about on walks, or are planning to recycle items, can we ask that you think of us first please 😃

Here is some of the items we are looking for:

Conkers, stones, shells, tea cups, sticks, picture frames, plates, wood, drainpipes, etc,  anything you think might be of used in nursery.

We hope you have a lovely weekend and we  😄 see you all on Monday for another great fun filled week!

Miss McKenzie, Miss Nelson, Mrs Wilson and Miss Brougham 👋 x

 

We hope you have had a great week, here is a look at what we have been up to….

 

Children took part in a forest session in the bottom garden where they explored a lot of climbing, direction, forces and imaginative play. Children worked together to create a bed for the speed boat whilst others wanted to use the iPad to explore poses and other perspectives in the tree.

Children have been exploring their weaving skills as they use frames and ribbons to create a spooky house together.

Innes asked to search what the worlds fastest animal was with his peers but before we did that he guessed a cheetah as he had seen it on the TV. Innes matched the words from the wooden disc to the keyboard to login the computer in. After research we found out Innes was right and we also found out that the worlds slowest animal is the sloth.

Children joined in creating a bar graph based on the captain underpants book as they found out what everyone favourite underpants were. They guessed which would have the most, the least and who they thought might not get any votes at all.
 

Children have been using their mark making skills to draw outside using pens and card and they make their own designs and shapes.

Children have also been creative inside as they help with our Christmas enterprise activity by painting Christmas decorations and cutting out shapes using the clay. This sparked conversations around money and selling our items.

Children explored screen and film as they used props from a story box that linked to nursery rhymes and created their own stories as they used the stage to act these out together. The children also added loose parts to develop their ideas.

Reminders:

• Nursery will be closed to children tomorrow (Friday 15th November) as it is in service day
• please ensure your child had a spare change of clothes with them as well as wellies so they can enjoy some water play
• Our peep group is on Thursday morning from just after drop off until 10:30 roughly for anyone who wanted to join

 

Have a lovely long weekend and we will see you next week! ☺️

This week learning is… creativity, motor skills, team work, communication, balancing skills, hand/eye coordination, numeracy, literacy, self confidence, exploring, Predicting, Being Curious, Sharing, Self-Esteem, Technology, Outdoor Learning and Problem Solving.

Monday 4th November

Today a group of boys used their initiative and creative skills in building a no go area. They stated that it keeps people out. They worked together to share ideas and resources that further develop their role play.

Today a group of children played tickle tig outside! They are all taking turns to chase and be the tickler 😄

Today a group of children enjoyed a story with Miss Brougham. They were able to retell parts of they story they enjoyed.

Tuesday 5th November

Today a group of children have been working on their hand eye coordination skills as they play football with each other in the garden. They explored how high they could kick the ball as they kicked it from the ground to all the way over the top of the gazebo to the other side! ⚽️

Today a group of children have had a lovely morning in the bottom garden as they explore the seesaw and discuss hight together. “I’m higher”

Today a group of children persevered with a challenge of simple addition with numbers up to 10. They needed support to gain confidence to point and count, but this quickly grew. They worked together and used their initiative to ask for help if they were unsure, or to recheck their answers.

Wednesday 6th November

Today a group of children have been keen to help create and paint for our Christmas enterprise as they make decorations for the tree.🎄

Today a group of children explored new games on the smart board and worked together to operate it using their combined technology skills.

Today a group of children worked together to create an obstacle course using loose parts. They took it in turns to use their balancing skills to walk along the big blocks trying not to fall.

Thursday 7th November

Today a group of children have been developing their fine motor skills and textile techniques. They have been exploring weaving and threading with ribbons and pipe cleaners using different resources to thread through.

Today a group of children discussed their favourite snacks at nursery while they are developing their independence daily by collecting their own snack and displaying their likes and dislikes with the 10 frame.

 

Today a group of children wanted to play duck duck goose. “We can’t run inside we must walk.” They took it upon themselves to play walking duck duck goose to keep everyone safe.

Friday 8th November

Today a group of children explored planting. They were able to discuss basic parts of a plant and how to care for a plant by ensuring they have water and sunlight.

Today a group of children have been developing their fine motor skills and creative skills by creating pictures at the writing table to display in the room and take home.

Our Cosy Time Library 📚 This will be available to families at drop off and pick up time every day for you and your child to choose a book to take home to read 🏡There is no time limit on our library books we would just ask that you sign the book with your child’s name, the title of the book they have taken, the date it was taken and when it was returned ✍️There will be pens and hand sanitiser available for you to sign the books in and out. If your child has any special requests for a certain book please ask a member of staff or send a message on seesaw and we can help you 😃There will be a folder with your child’s name for them to put the book in for its journey to home and back 📁A tray will be available for you to put in your returned books so we can quarantine and clean them before putting them on display again, if you have any questions, any member of staff would be happy to help ☺️

Reminders

• Can all parents label items of  your child’s clothing.
• Can all parents put in at least one full change of clothing for water play and accidents.
• Can all parents if your child has a packed lunch can we please ensure grapes and big fruits are cut to minimise the risk of choking.🍇
• Can we remind all parents\carers to park in a white space only as the yellow spaces are for staff only.
• Can all parents ensure your child has a set of waterproofs and wellies to play outside when it’s wet.
• Our nursery blog is sent out every week on a Friday afternoon.
• If your child is going to be picked up by someone else, please let the ladies know or the office so we are aware.
• Can we ensure that your child is dressed appropriately for the weather.
• Can we ensure when you are leaving the nursery that the gate is locked.
• There is learning at home sheets available in the nursery to share your child’s learning and experiences you do at home.
• Forest is on Tuesday where we meet at Waterstone crook car park from 9:00-9:15. Can we also just make you aware that with the hot and humid weather that tics may be around in the forest area so encourage you to check your child after every forest session incase any have made their way home on your child!

  💭Any changes to your child’s Diet or Medication? Please speak with one of the Team who can support you.

  Loose Parts

  We are always in need of replenishing our loose parts in nursery. If you are out and about on walks, or are planning to recycle items, can we ask that you think of us first please 😃

   

  We hope you all have a great weekend.

The Nursery Team 

Hello everyone, we hope you have had a great week! Here is a look at what we have been up to in nursery…..

This week learning is… Exploring, Predicting, Being Curious, Literacy, Mathematics, Sharing, Self-Esteem, Creativity, Motor Skills, Turn Taking, Technology, Outdoor Learning and Problem Solving.

This week we have been continuing the children’s development and understanding of celebrating various festivals, celebrations and religious beliefs looking at Halloween and Diwali. A variety of activities that encouraged children to explore and participate in whilst having lots of fun.

Outside the children experienced creating very decorative tea light holders using clay, paint and sparkles. They used skills to manipulate the clay into a shape then after listening to and looking at information from books, pictures and the internet. They discussed the texture, feel of the clay, and the shape of the holder.

 

   

Also from observing and listening to a group of children discussing a recent Halloween party that they had attended, the adult promoted an activity to create a range of Halloween themed pictures. They used a range of natural tools to create their images, sharing the resources and their ideas well with others. They were then using the correct language to describe the  different sizes created,

Whilst inside a group of children were seen exploring the Diwali pattern making area to create their own patters using a selection of coloured buttons. They were able to sequence and follow a pattern, this extended then to creating their own patterns using other methods such as pens and paint.

At the forest, the children enjoyed a hot snack  of Hot dogs or crumpets along with a hot chocolate drink afterwards. They were able to discuss how the environment had changed after noticing how many leaves were now on the floor. This lead to discussions on how the weather is changing, with some saying..

“It’s getting colder now and windy too”

“Then wind makes the leaves fall down”

We also found some mesh netting which we hung up and the children sourced a variety of natural resources such as leaves, cones, sticks and berries to create a lovely piece of art work. They were able to share their understanding of not eating the berries, recalling the need to wash their hands afterwards.

In were able to discuss how their bodies felt. the week the children enjoyed a gym session that promoted skills to jump, balance, roll, hop walk forwards and backwards using a range of large gym equipment. Afterwards they

Yesterday lots of fun and games were had from pumpkin carving and then decorating using glue, sparkles and spray paint. But I’m not too sure if the spray paint actually went onto pumpkin,   The children showed their skills to match playing Spooky Halloween bingo, to reading stories under a table covered in dark material and a torch. Lots of imaginative ghostly stories were made. A Book bug session was held and afterwards the children explored the story sack of the Room on the broom.

 

Today the children explored the symbolic meaning of the Poppy. They shared that a Poppy is worn to remember people who help to protect us in the wars. This led to some creating their own Poppy for the Nursery.

Reminders.

Tuesday 5th November 2024  –  Forest Kindergarten.  Meet at 9.00 am 9.15 am at Waterstone Crook car park.

Thursday 7th November 2024    –   PEEP session starting at 9.15 am with Miss McKenzie.

 

With the changing  seasonal and varied weather conditions  ☔️❄️🥶, please remember to provide your child with welly boots, waterproof clothing, hat, gloves 🧤, scarf🧣 and at least 2 full changes of clothes in your child’s bag (remember the…🧦 🧦🩲🩲 )

Loose Parts

We are always in need of replenishing our loose parts in nursery. If you are out and about on walks, or are planning to recycle items, can we ask that you think of us first please 😃

Here is some of the items we are looking for:

Conkers, stones, shells, tea cups, sticks, picture frames, plates, wood, drainpipes, etc,  anything you think might be of used in nursery.

We hope you have a lovely weekend and we  😄 see you all on Monday for another great fun filled week!

Miss McKenzie, Miss Nelson, Mrs Wilson and Miss Brougham 👋 x

 

 

We hope you had a lovely relaxing time off. Here is what we have been up to the first week back….

Children have been exploring their fine motor skills as they create their own masks using paper, wool and scissors. They only needed a little support to attach the wool and hold the paper still as they cut.

Children have been exploring weight outside as they looked at items that were heavier than others. Children have also been threading outside using straws and seeing how they can create different lengths.

Children have been exploring mark making and attempting to copy words that they need for their everyday play. They then independently used a ruler to explore how long their pictures were.

Using bottles and a range of other resources, children made their own music shakers. They then developed these using their own creative ideas by adding colours and tape to make them unique.

Children are beginning to explore Diwali and look at how others celebrate as they made their own henna designs on a hand print they drew and cut out. The children were able to discuss their own experiences with Diwali as they said about seeing something on television about it. “That’s the festival of light, they light candles and dance to music and do hand designs”.

 

Children have been working together to look after the nursery resources independently. Luke and Florence noticed sand in the home corner and swept it up together. “I can be the bin man” says Luke.

Children are continuing to show an interest in our learning wall topic “People who help up” as they ask to read a story about the police. From this, Rosie shared that she learned all about finger prints and how they are put on the computer to catch the bad guys. Innes showed an interest in looking at all the different sections of the book.

This week a group of children asked to make play dough. Leo asked for blue play dough as he was going to make Sonic. Through a group discussion and problem solving we decided to add blue powder paint to the play dough to create the blue colour. The group of children explored making models of numbers, shapes and animals. This led to a discussion about what animals eat and where they come from. “Giraffes eat leaves.” “We get leaves from trees” “trees grow in the ground.” This then led how to care for plants by giving them water and sunlight.

This week a group of children participated in making a “special” tray for the story sharing a shell. We worked together to create a mind map and gather ideas from the story to see what we could incorporate. Innes enjoyed looking through the story to see if we were missing any resources. Jackson, flora and Rosie enjoyed helping create the rock pool. “This is where they live” “yeah but they live in a shell”. They got creative and used instruments and a torch to create thunder and lightening in the storm. “This is the storm” Rosie and Flora enjoyed retelling the storm part or the story using the instruments and flashing of the torch. They confidently spoke about their favourite parts of the story and retold them.

This week Rosie and Sehrish demonstrated their skills to listen to a set of instructions that described size, such as tallest, smallest, medium sized then selected the correct picture.

Children have been sharing their kind and caring sides with one another as they help others around the room. Children helps others by fixing their clothing or fixing resources they noticed were broken. “It’s broken I need to fix it!”. “There you go I’ll do your cardigan for you”.

Our Cosy Time Library 📚 This will be available to families at drop off and pick up time every day for you and your child to choose a book to take home to read 🏡There is no time limit on our library books we would just ask that you sign the book with your child’s name, the title of the book they have taken, the date it was taken and when it was returned ✍️There will be pens and hand sanitiser available for you to sign the books in and out. If your child has any special requests for a certain book please ask a member of staff or send a message on seesaw and we can help you 😃There will be a folder with your child’s name for them to put the book in for its journey to home and back 📁A tray will be available for you to put in your returned books so we can quarantine and clean them before putting them on display again, if you have any questions, any member of staff would be happy to help ☺️

Reminders

• Can all parents label items of  your child’s clothing.
• Can all parents put in at least one full change of clothing for water play and accidents.
• Can all parents if your child has a packed lunch can we please ensure grapes and big fruits are cut to minimise the risk of choking.🍇
• Can we remind all parents\carers to park in a white space only as the yellow spaces are for staff only.
• Can all parents ensure your child has a set of waterproofs and wellies to play outside when it’s wet.
• Our nursery blog is sent out every week on a Friday afternoon.
• If your child is going to be picked up by someone else, please let the ladies know or the office so we are aware.
• Can we ensure that your child is dressed appropriately for the weather.
• Can we ensure when you are leaving the nursery that the gate is locked.
• There is learning at home sheets available in the nursery to share your child’s learning and experiences you do at home.
• Forest is on Tuesday where we meet at Waterstone crook car park from 9:00-9:15. Can we also just make you aware that with the hot and humid weather that tics may be around in the forest area so encourage you to check your child after every forest session incase any have made their way home on your child!

  💭Any changes to your child’s Diet or Medication? Please speak with one of the Team who can support you.

  Loose Parts

  We are always in need of replenishing our loose parts in nursery. If you are out and about on walks, or are planning to recycle items, can we ask that you think of us first please 😃

The Nursery Team 