All posts by Ailie Rankin

I am a Peripatetic Nursery Teacher in Inverclyde, based in Kelly Street Children's Centre and also working in Bluebird Family Centre. I am passionate about early years education in particular play, attachment and learning out loud. I'm just new at this blogging but always up for a blether - pop in and say hi!

Out of this world!

You are going to be blown awayblast off by the outstanding learning that is happening in the Rainbow Room at the moment with our space theme!

Just look at the incredible labels that some of the children wrote themselves!

by Zara aged 4
By Zara aged 4
by Grace aged 3!
by Grace aged 3!
by Lucy aged 4
by Lucy aged 4

We even tried writing without gravity by writing underneath the table instead of on top to see how it feels to write in space .

Space writing!
Space writing!

We are so proud of this early writing! But the amazing learning doesn’t stop there!

Wait until you see our of solar system song.

Grace told us that “Earth is the planet with water” showing us that she understands that the others have no liquid water! What great investigating and sharing of learning!

But it’s better to hear about learning directly from Jack, Orla, Skye, and Zach!

Just click on the coloured links!

Wow! I think you will agree these children are out of this world!

thumbs up moon

If you’d like to extend this space learning further why not have a look at CBeebies for some fun games and activities.

The Stargazing episodes are full of brilliant information!

Alternatively you could follow Tim Peake on the space station on twitter.

Or watch some videos made on the space station by Chris Hadfield or Tim Peake – like how they use the toilet in space!

You could also wave to Tim as he crosses our sky in the ISS – check out the tracker to see when he’ll pass.

Happy Learning! rocket man

 

Staff Learning!

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Check out our Claire  – a real successful learner and confident individual – proud of her achievement in creating QR codes to help everyone find our website and blog!

Go Claire!

clever girl
Top marks!

You can find our QR codes in the corridors outside the playrooms and on the cloakroom walls.