The children in the nursery were celebrating Pancake Tuesday by using their own thoughts and ideas to create funky pancakes. You can see a few examples of these below.
Creating Pancakes
Developing Literacy
Look at what we have been doing in literacy!
Our Three Read story is called Meggie Moon, written by Elizabeth Baguley. The blurb states that it is a great book. Ask your child to tell you all about the adventures of Meggie and her friends.
This is how we have been singing Rock –a Bye-Baby during play.
During Show and Tell we had great fun watching the performance of 1, 2,3,4,5, Once I Caught a Fish Alive. We loved it thank you for bringing in your own character.
Literacy fun activity ideas to try at home.
Show your child their name and see if they can find their name when in a group of other words.
Can they find other letters which are the same as the ones in their name?
Some children may be able to build their name with letter cards or magnetic letters.
Your child may be recognizing logos, words and letters all around them, explore these with them, discussing what you see.
If your child shows an interest in a letter, for example the first letter in their name, tell them the name of the letter e.g. that is the letter S, it makes the sound sssss.
You could see if you can find other words which start with the same letter.
Woodland Explorers
Woodland Explorers
Group 2 – Week 2
This week we looked for a different shape on our walk to the site – triangles. We discovered them on road signs and roofs. The road signs even had numbers on them! We had visitors with us today. Ladies from other nurseries wanted to join us to see all the fun that we have. They were very impressed when we were able to tell them all the different ways to stay safe when playing in the woods.
This week we made a den using different materials e.g. ropes, pegs, fabrics, beads and ribbons. We worked together …… tying ropes to the trees, attaching fabrics using the giant pegs. What do you think of our den? Our visitors thought it looked wonderful!
We also had lots of fun lying on a hammock. When we looked up we could see the top of the trees (which were really tall), lots of white clouds in the sky and some of us even saw branches that looked like stairs going to the top of a tree….. it was AMAZING!
Protesting.
Primary four have written another letter to object to the dam being built and have decided the want to protest to show how unhappy they are.
They are busy writing letters and preparing their signs!
Becoming Digging Machines.
Yesterday, the children worked in groups to use their body and actions to resemble a dam building machine. The groups had to connect, make a slow motion action and make a sound.
They did great and it was very interesting to watch. 
Pancake day in P1
Pictographs in P 2/3
Sorting coins
Nursery Rhymes – Home Link
Our first rhymes for sharing are numbers 27 and 28 we have already noticed that the children are keen to perform Rock –A-Bye-Baby using our doll. We will continue these rhymes for a few weeks as the children become more skilled at reciting them. Just a note to say that Mrs Cumming has made up the props for 5 Currant Buns and they are now available for you to borrow from our Lending Library.
Have lots of fun reciting your rhymes at home. We would love to hear how well you are doing and look forward to hear what you think of our new rhyme props.
We had a great response to our rhyme workshop and we are delighted by your very kind comments.
Here are a few examples of your feedback.
Sounds a great idea really looking forward to trying out the ideas with my son.
Brilliant idea, welcome area is always informing us with what’s going on.
Fantastic presentation and I got lots of ideas to take home. My daughter will bring in some of her work.
Thanks for very good displays and ideas.
Looking forward to doing the rhymes and songs at home.
Excited to try out the nursery rhymes with my daughter at home using different methods. Got lots of animal figures at home that we can use.
Friends Are Special
Friends are special,
Friends are special,
So make a few, make a few.
Smile and say hello,
Everywhere you go,
How are you?
How are you?
Rock–a–bye Baby
Rock-a-bye baby,
On the tree top,
When the wind blows,
The cradle will rock;
When the bough breaks,
The baby will fall,
Down will come baby
cradle and all.
Woodland Explorers
Woodland Eplorers
Group 2
On our walk to the site this morning we all looked for circle shapes in our environment. We found them on lots of objects…….on cars, road signs, wheels and houses. Today we discovered ways to stay safe when playing in the woods. We learned about the boundaries – what they looked like and the reason for using them. We also practised playing safety games e.g. 123 Where Are You? It was also important that we risk assessed the area and placed plastic cones on top of hidden tree stumps.
We had lots of fun exploring the site. There was a very muddy puddle and we loved jumping in it. Our boots were really muddy! We also discovered little buds growing on some of the plants.
We all participated in a woodland workout to help us keep warm……..star jumps, stretches, tree press-ups and running on the spot. Our hearts were beating really fast when we were finished and we were feeling warm again. We had lots of fun playing hide-and-seek and found interesting places to hide.
