gw09grierkirsten3@glow – New Monkland Primary School & Nursery

November 23, 2017November 23, 2017

Three Reads Workshop

Recently, Mrs Cumming held a Three Reads workshop in the nursery. She spent time explaining how the initiative works and the parents had the opportunity to experience it first hand.

Below you will see some of the feedback she received and a few photographs from the event.

Thank you for completing the questionnaires during our recent Early Literacy workshop. Here are a selection of your findings:

‘I found it very informative.’

‘I was shown the key skills to help me to try it with my child.’

‘We will use props with our stories. My older child went through it and has a real love of books.’

‘Great to have this time to further understand the ‘why’ behind the ‘how’ something is being taught.’

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November 23, 2017

We became aware of how to safe when playing in the woods. It is important that we stay within the boundaries which are coloured fabrics tied to the trees. We also helped to risk assess the area by looking for any possible dangers, such as hidden tree stumps, and placed a plastic cone on top of them.

We made lots of discoveries……Mrs Tree (who likes getting a hug from us), lots of pine cones lying on the ground (it was fun collecting them), a little fairy house (which we are going to decorate next time) and we found little creatures hiding on the tree stumps (Can you spot the red spider and slug in our photos?)

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Week 2

This week we were very busy making a wonderful den. We all worked together, using lots of different materials e.g. giant pegs, ropes and fabrics. Our den looked super……it made us invisible. It was fun sitting in it whilst eating our snack.

We also discovered something interesting hanging between two trees……it was a hammock! “When lying on the hammock I looked up and could see the big trees”,

“I could see the rain coming down from the sky”.

We worked with a partner searching for lots of colours/ different shapes of leaves which were on our spotter sheets. “I found gold, green and yellow leaves. Reddy brown and dark brown as well”. “I looked for gold”. “I found different shapes of leaves…..I found 4 and they were green and big”.

Do you like our fairy house which we made? “I put some acorns in it….they are for decoration. I think the fairy will like it as she if going to have a party”.

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Woodland

Week 4

This week we went on a stick hunt. We looked for different sticks – long, short, chunky, thin, rough, smooth and leafy, and found lots of them. We were able to match them to the pictures on our spotter sheets.

We each chose one of the sticks to make a magic wand. We made them really special by decorating them with autumn leaves. They looked super! We used them to make magic spells and change each other into frogs, lions, rabbits, tigers and dinosaurs!!

We were also busy being Bark Artists. We chose a tree and rubbed over the bark with a crayon, discovering lots of patterns. Using some of the sticks which we found, we created a woodland picture frame for our pieces of work. They looked fantastic!!

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September 29, 2017

Open Day /Evening

It was great to see the children having fun yesterday, showing their families round the nursery and having the opportunity to share their learning and favourite nursery activities.

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September 8, 2017

Settling In

We have been very busy in the nursery, with lots of new children joining us for their first nursery year. We are starting off this year by learning more about our Rights Respecting Nursery Charter and about Ollie the Octopus our RRS mascot. We are also thinking about ways that we can be more independent in nursery, by learning our nursery routines. Below are some photos of some of the other things we have been doing.

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June 22, 2017

Woodland Adventure

We shared our experience with family this week. It was a very rainy day but we didn’t mind getting wet. We were too busy looking for little creatures which were hiding on logs, under the soil and on the tree trunks. We discovered lots of them! Using magnifying glasses we had a closer look at our findings.

“I found creepy crawlies and picked up a slug. It felt squishy!”

“My dad picked up a bit of wood and we saw slugs and tons of beasties”.

“A snail was sleeping in his shell. I didn’t want to waken him up”.

“The snail had stripes on his shell”.

“A slug slides slowly”.

“My dad looked for ‘Pincy’. It is another kind of centipede that can suck up blood with his pincers”.

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June 15, 2017

Nursery Fun Morning

All the nursery children gathered together today for our nursery fun morning. As you can see from the photographs we had lots of fun. We played parachute games, went on a treasure hunt, tried out lots of active games and rhymes and had a lovely snack together.

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June 9, 2017

Sports Day Fun – Afternoon

Even with a downpour just before we were due to start, nothing dampened our spirits. We had lots of fun with our friends.

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June 9, 2017

Sports Day Fun – Morning

We had a ball today at our sports day. The rain stayed away long enough for us to have lots of fun.

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June 7, 2017

Woodland Adventures

Group 3

We went on a colour hunt on our way to the woods. We recorded the different colours on a special spotter sheet by using our own written marks, such as ticks, lines and crosses.

“I saw some pink flowers in a garden”.

“The berries are red”.

“I found cream rocks in someone’s garden”.

“I saw some white daisies on the grass”.

Some of us made wonderful houses for the giraffes, leopards and elephants. We used a tool called a rubber mallet/ wooden mallet to tap sticks into the ground to make the walls. It was very important that we used the tools safely.

“I hammered the sticks carefully so that they wouldn’t fall down. The leopard liked his new house”.

A fantastic den was created using ropes, pegs, fabrics and large sticks/branches. We worked well together to carry the branches safely and place them in a large pile to make a really big gate. Doesn’t it look great?

“Some of the sticks were heavy. My friend helped me to carry them”.

“I made a special gate with massive sticks. I have big muscles in my arms”.

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April 21, 2017

Let’s Grow

We have started a new theme in nursery looking at how things grow. We have started by looking at the different parts of a plant. You can see some photos of what we have been doing below.

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As part of our learning, we are also thinking about where our food comes from, what it tastes like and how we use it. This week we explored icing and made special flower biscuits using different coloured icing.

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During the Easter holidays, our role play area changed into a magical forest where the children can pretend to be lots of different characters by dressing up in a variety of costumes. They have really enjoyed this and are keen to try lots of different props including hats and shoes.

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