{"id":7782,"date":"2024-02-09T15:39:52","date_gmt":"2024-02-09T15:39:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fi\/npsnursery\/?p=7782"},"modified":"2024-02-09T15:39:52","modified_gmt":"2024-02-09T15:39:52","slug":"week-beginning-5th-february","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fi\/npsnursery\/2024\/02\/09\/week-beginning-5th-february\/","title":{"rendered":"Week beginning 5th February"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><strong>\ud83c\udf1fThe nursery will only be open on <em>Monday and Tuesday next week and closed Wednesday, Thursday and Friday<\/em> due to an in-service day and public holidays \ud83c\udf1f<\/strong><\/h1>\n<h1>Hello everyone, we hope you have had a great week, we have had a really busy but fun week, here is a sneak peak into what we have been up to\u2026\u2026.<\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 960px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('video');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-7782-1\" width=\"960\" height=\"540\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/quicktime\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fi\/npsnursery\/files\/2024\/02\/IMG_0371.mov?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fi\/npsnursery\/files\/2024\/02\/IMG_0371.mov\">https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fi\/npsnursery\/files\/2024\/02\/IMG_0371.mov<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n<p>Flynn and Archie put on a great performance yesterday singing queen in the garden for their peers as they created musical instruments using loose parts<\/p>\n<p>Flynn \u201cwe will we will rock you!\u201d<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-7803\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fi\/npsnursery\/files\/2024\/02\/IMG_0377-225x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-7804\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fi\/npsnursery\/files\/2024\/02\/IMG_0376-225x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Archie has been practising his tennis skills and challenging himself. Archie went from hitting one ball to hitting three at the same time \ud83c\udfbe<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was hitting the balls, I was rolling and doing target practice\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-7784\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fi\/npsnursery\/files\/2024\/02\/IMG_0358-225x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" \/>\u00a0\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-7785\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fi\/npsnursery\/files\/2024\/02\/IMG_0351-225x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A group of children have shown an interest in hairdressers this week and have been creative with different hair styles and have been discussing appointment times and how long until each appointment.<\/p>\n<p>Sophie \u201cI\u2019m making her hair at the hairdressers\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-7786\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fi\/npsnursery\/files\/2024\/02\/IMG_0348-300x225.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Isla \u201cI was writing down the number for the next hair appointment time\u201d<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-7787\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fi\/npsnursery\/files\/2024\/02\/IMG_0346-300x225.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Oran, Alex and Eleanor took some time to read outside together in the story den.<\/p>\n<p>Oran \u201cwe are reading\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Alex \u201cwe were just looking at the pages together\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-7788 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fi\/npsnursery\/files\/2024\/02\/IMG_0337-rotated-e1707493031186-263x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"263\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We made the most of the nice weather by having snack outside, we had juicy watermelon and oranges.<\/p>\n<p>Archie \u201cWe were eating watermelon, it was soooo good!\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-7789\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fi\/npsnursery\/files\/2024\/02\/IMG_0317-225x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A group of peers helped to push each other along outside on the equipment, they all worked together and used trial and error to work out how to free it when it got stuck on the fence.<\/p>\n<p>Timothy \u201ci managed to push him it was really easy\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-7790\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fi\/npsnursery\/files\/2024\/02\/IMG_0318-225x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-7791\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fi\/npsnursery\/files\/2024\/02\/IMG_0320-225x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>We had another great day for our forest session where we explored the bottom garden. The children used the seesaw, explored with loose parts and took part in imaginary play where they were jumping into the sea from the boat when it was really stormy.<\/p>\n<p>Eli \u201cI\u2019m on the seesaw with Timothy\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Isla \u201cme and Jackson are robots\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Archie \u201cwe were slipping off the boat, we made the silly club\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Chloe \u201cwe were falling off the seesaw, we were dinosaurs\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-7792\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fi\/npsnursery\/files\/2024\/02\/IMG_0300-225x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-7793\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fi\/npsnursery\/files\/2024\/02\/IMG_0296-225x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-7794\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fi\/npsnursery\/files\/2024\/02\/IMG_0295-225x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-7795\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fi\/npsnursery\/files\/2024\/02\/IMG_0290-225x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-7796\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fi\/npsnursery\/files\/2024\/02\/IMG_0291-225x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-7797\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fi\/npsnursery\/files\/2024\/02\/IMG_0293-225x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-7798\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fi\/npsnursery\/files\/2024\/02\/IMG_0288-225x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A group of peers took part in the incey winced spider game where they explored turn taking, negotiating and numeracy skills.<\/p>\n<p>Leo \u201cspidey game\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Cameron \u201cwe were playing the spider game\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-7799\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fi\/npsnursery\/files\/2024\/02\/IMG_0335-225x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-7800\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fi\/npsnursery\/files\/2024\/02\/IMG_0339-225x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Christian kindly brought in a book from home to share with his peers called Christian the hugging lion.<\/p>\n<p>Christian \u201cthe book came from my house, it\u2019s a good book, we were reading the book\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-7801\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fi\/npsnursery\/files\/2024\/02\/IMG_0364-225x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Children showcased their self help skills as they made their own sandwiches at snack by spreading butter onto the bread and choosing their filling \ud83e\udd6a<\/p>\n<p>Robin \u201cI had a cheese sandwich, I put it on myself\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Flynn \u201cI didn\u2019t have a sandwich, I just had bread with butter\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-7808\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fi\/npsnursery\/files\/2024\/02\/IMG_0385-225x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-7809\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fi\/npsnursery\/files\/2024\/02\/IMG_0383-225x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The children have a found a new swing ball in the garden after showing an interest in ball games, Lucas helped to fill up the base to make it stable to use.<\/p>\n<p>Lucas \u201cthat\u2019s almost full, that\u2019s full\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-7811\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fi\/npsnursery\/files\/2024\/02\/615A6B65-9EE8-4E35-B037-FA56AE1CD04B-225x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Children used the farm sets outside where they created their own farm and sectioned off different areas for different animals.<\/p>\n<p>Elyn \u201cCows, pigs. We had the animals and feeding them hay\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Cora \u201cwe had bricks and animals to make the farm\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-7813\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fi\/npsnursery\/files\/2024\/02\/9A36C100-DB9D-47C3-9E2F-9FEC4FC41B93-300x225.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-7814\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fi\/npsnursery\/files\/2024\/02\/371E92CB-9532-457B-81B2-4CAB2E13054A-300x225.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Book bug came for a surprise visit today in nursery. We sang some familiar and some new songs as well as having a good story \ud83d\udc1e<\/p>\n<p>The children all participated and sang along or copied the actions to the songs and spoke about the characters in the story.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-7819\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fi\/npsnursery\/files\/2024\/02\/IMG_0406-300x225.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-7820\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fi\/npsnursery\/files\/2024\/02\/IMG_0403-300x225.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/p>\n<h2>Clothing<\/h2>\n<p>If anybody has any clothing aged between 3-5 years old boys or girls clothes that they are happy to donate as spare clothing for the nursery we would be very grateful as our stock of spare clothing has not been returned, thank you!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h1>Reminders<\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li>Can we please remind parents and carers that when dropping off in the morning and using the car park to use the white spaces only as staff members who start at 9 are unable to park due to the staff spaces being taken.<\/li>\n<li><b>Nursery will be open only on Monday and Tuesday next week due to In service day on the Wednesday and public holidays on Thursday and Friday\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li>if you are going to be in later than 9:20 can you give us a message on seesaw to let us know as we take the lunches along to the office by 9:30 so could take your order before you get here if needed<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>We hope you have a lovely weekend and happy Chinese new year to our Newport nursery families \ud83d\udc09 we will be celebrating next week with some Chinese food for snack and looking into the story of The Great Race \ud83d\udc37 \ud83d\udc36 \ud83d\udc00<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-7816\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fi\/npsnursery\/files\/2024\/02\/IMG_0391-300x200.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Newport nursery team<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\ud83c\udf1fThe nursery will only be open on Monday and Tuesday next week and closed Wednesday, Thursday and Friday due to an in-service day and public holidays \ud83c\udf1f Hello everyone, we hope you have had a great week, we have had a really busy but fun week, here is a sneak peak into what we have &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20897,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fi\/npsnursery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7782","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fi\/npsnursery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fi\/npsnursery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fi\/npsnursery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20897"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fi\/npsnursery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7782"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fi\/npsnursery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7782\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7822,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fi\/npsnursery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7782\/revisions\/7822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fi\/npsnursery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fi\/npsnursery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fi\/npsnursery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}