Our boys and girls from the Little Blossom’s Room and the Sunshine Room have been having fun developing lots of new skills together through visits to the Gibshill Soft play.
John exploring the bouncy castle!
Adam building confidence to go on the bouncy castle.
Dominic being brave exploring the bouncy castle.
Building confidence while exploring a new environment.
Kayden using apparatus to help develop climbing skills.
Adam practising him climbing skills.
Diego crawling through the hole.
Using different apparatus to develop lots of physical and co-ordination skills such as climbing, crawling and moving our bodies.
working together to help Lewis get to the top of the bouncy castle.
Finlay helping to push the car along.
Diego and CJ working together to move the car.
We had lots of chances to build our friendships and work together.
The space learning has continued and developed into thinking and learning about what an astronaut needs to stay healthy in space. This has developed into thinking about what human bodies need. In order to do that we need to understand a little about what the body does and how it works.
We have been learning about food that keeps us healthy and growing.
“Water and milk are good to drink” – Zach.
[Coke a cola]”rots your teeth you know!” – Abi
We know that we need to get exercise and fresh air to be healthy so we have been visiting local parks and exercising on the equipment as part of our space walks.
Using our muscles and strength together to move the see saw.
We need to use our muscles to coordinate and climb.
We used our muscles and pumping heart to push the roundabout.
However we have been exploring this idea in even greater detail.We have been learning about how when we exercise our hearts work hard to pump lots of blood to our muscles.
“My heart is beating fast!” – Caelan after running.
“My heart’s not beating so fast anymore” – Caelan after walking for a while.
“When you run, my heart beats faster cos I’m breathing fast!” – Noah
We found out that we get puffed out when we run about because our lungs are working hard to get enough oxygen.
We explored the idea of the heart beating further with Sharon back at the nursery. She made a heart out of a bottle and used a big long tube to be the veins. She pumped red water through the tubes to show how blood is pumped by the heart, through the veins.
The tubes were really long – but nowhere near as long as all our veins would be (an adult’s blood vessels laid out end to end would wrap around the world nearly 2 1/2 times!!!!)
We watched the ‘blood’ as it flowed through the ‘vein’ tube.
It took a long time for the ‘blood’ to flow through the ‘vein’.
We watched closely to follow the progress of the ‘blood’ through the ‘vein’.
We were really fascinated by the blood moving through the veins.
We took turns to hold and pump the bottle heart to make the blood move.
Leigh squeezed the bottle to pump the blood.
Sharon had to hold the heart bottle up so that the blood liquid flowed down the tube vein.
We had to pump and pump for a long time to get the blood all the way through the vein, but we got there!
We followed the ‘blood’ all the way until it came out of the end of the tube.
“It’s coming out!” – Aaron
Sharon helped us find veins on our arms and we noticed they look purple – not red and we wondered why. Sharon added a purple vein.
The blood looked red when it has come from the lungs, the blood looks darker and more purple when it was heading towards the lungs.
So we found out that blood that has come from our lungs is bright red because it is full of oxygen and is taking it to our muscles. Blood that has little oxygen and is heading back to the lungs is darker red and looks purple through our skin. This is called oxygenation.
We will be learning more about our human body over the next few weeks so keep asking your child to share their learning!
Thank you again to all the parents and carers who supported our Starcatcher’s Creativity Event. We continued to explore our topic of Space through stories, dance, drama and using our imagination. It was great to see the parents and carers getting involved in their child’s learning.
These opportunities to become involved in your child’s learning are always well supported but special thanks this time to the Dad’s that got involved!
2016 is the Year of the Dad – this is a celebration of the difference a great dad or father figure can make to a child’s wellbeing, confidence and educational attainment.
Families are diverse and are not all the same. Some dads don’t live in the house and some dads work really long hours! Remember its not about the amount of time spent with your child but making the times special. Quality over Quantity!
Zach and his Dad Craig enjoying their space snack.Jack and his Dad Gary in their spaceship with their space lunch and their telescope flying off to Saturn.Gabriel and his family having a picnic on the moon.The brave astronauts return back to earth from space. What a great adventure!!
I would like to introduce you to our fabulous “Clothes Bank” here at Bluebird Nursery . Come along and have a look at the lovely range of new and good quality second hand clothes and shoes. If any of the items are of any use to you or a member of your family please feel free to take them. We will also accept donations or you could swap items or ask if you are looking for something in particular we may be able to get for you. Soon we will be looking for items of school clothing that your children may have outgrown and that you may wish to pass on to others. If you wish you can make a small donation which will go towards our nursery funds here at Bluebird.
This week we have been very busy learning all about Chinese New Year. We have had the opportunity to explore with noodles both tasting for snack and painting in our messy area. We have changed our house corner into a Chinese restaurant where we have the opportunity to dress up in traditional Chinese clothes and explore using our chop sticks.
Yum!!
Millie said “More chicken curry”
Lilly said “More crackers”
Some children weren’t sure and preferred toast.
“Don’t like the crackers”
For snack we tried Chinese noodles and crackers. They were delicious.
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!
If you’d like to extend this space learning further why not have a look at CBeebies for some fun games and activities.
Check out our Claire – a real successful learner and confidentindividual – proud of her achievement in creating QR codes to help everyone find our website and blog!
Go Claire!
Top marks!
You can find our QR codes in the corridors outside the playrooms and on the cloakroom walls.
This is our first ever blog post – eek! Please be gentle!
Our aim is to share the wealth of learning across our provision be it in the Drop-in with Liz, or one of our community classes, the Blossom Room, the Sunshine Room, the Rainbow Room or even sometimes just the staff!
We are hoping to have a big Media Launch in the future (watch this space for details!) to celebrate the new media parental partnership. We’ll be showing off our wee clever clogs through twitter and these blogs, in order to make it easy for families to help children reflect on, share and develop their learning.
Here is a wee sneak peek at some of the stuff that we have been getting up to over the last wee while.
We were exploring fizzy potions with carbonated water and effervescent tablets.
We pretended to write without gravity by drawing under the table instead of on top!
We have been thinking about how we encourage role play and creativity and have changed our ‘house corner’ provision.
We explored our knowledge about space by dressing up in familiar space costumes.
Jack and Zara have completed their space patches just like Tim Peake’s!
Skye is developing her cutting skills and fine motor skills by colouring and cutting out her mission patch herself!
We saw real actual seals out in the river when we were out on our space walk. (They are actually there – the wee tiny dots!)
We saw a real actual Heron just sitting very close to the path. We had to be very quiet and walk slowly so as not to scare it!
We have even been learning about space at the tactile table – we made moon dough with Pauline!
We are trying to walk the distance it would be to get to space (62 miles). Our walk at Lunderson Bay was 2 miles – that would get us above some clouds!
So you can see we’ve been very busy learning!
Stay tuned for another blog with more detail about our space theme!
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