Week 5  – Little green frog

The room was transformed into a lovely pond with a variety of frogs to explore and a very comfortable lily pad to sit on with your wee one as we learned the new song.

Everyone had fantastic fun together as we searched for bugs to feed the frogs, created our very own catch the bugs game and we laughed together as the frogs jumped on and off the velcro material.

After a delicious frog themed snack we welcomed a very special visitor to help us celebrate the end of a very successful block of stay and play sessions.

Bookbug presented the children and families with a very special goody bag full of lots of exciting resources which will enabled the families who had taken part to continue the fun at home.

The next block of stay and play sessions will commence on Thursday 28th April  1:15pm – 2:30pm  – Hope to see you  there!

Families who attended the sessions have given staff some really positive feedback which reflect just how successful the sessions were.

“The way the room was decorated was great,

this was my favourite(green frog)”

“I googled this song when I got home and found more versions

as well as a little blue fish song in the same tune”

“Enjoyable experience very relaxed didn’t feel as though

it had to be professional at all i could be a fun mum”

“I loved interacting with other adults as well as children”

“It was a good opportunity during snack for my wee one to try new foods“

“It was good spending time as a family and the food was delicious and set great for each session”

There was a fabulous turn out this week for our Rhyme Time Stay and Play session. A big thank you to all who have been attending and making this a successful programme. This weeks theme was “Little Miss Muffet” which is an old traditional rhyme which dates back to the 16th century. It was created by Dr. Muffet who was a famous entomologist who wrote the first scientific catalogue of british insects. The rhyme was inspired by his daughter who while eating her breakfast one morning was frightened by a spider.

After singing our songs and learning our rhyme we then went on to create some play dough spiders and played a game of trying to get the spiders out from their webs.  In the photographs below you can see just how much fun the families had playing together.

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Children have been very busy these past few weeks using lots of different methods to problem solve from using objects to transport items around the nursery,  pouring and filling containers in the water tray and using a variety of bags and boxes to fit things into.

The children can be seen concentrating intently as their skills are developing through their play.

Children in the birth to three are celebrating Scottish Week through learning some Scottish songs, rhymes and by exploring the following books :

Katie’s Ferm – a hide and seek book for wee folk

written by James Robertson and Matthew Fitt

and

Katie’s Moose – A keek-a-boo book for wee folk

Written by James Robertson and Matthew Fitt

Here are the words to songs and rhymes which the children will be hearing and singing over the week. maybe you could have great fun learning them along with your children.

Ye canny shove yer Grannie

Ye canny shove yer grannie aff a bus

Naw ye canny shove yer grannie aff a bus

Naw ye canny shove yer grannie

Cause she’s yer mammies mammie

Ye canny shove yer grannie aff a bus

Ye can shove yer other grannie aff a bus

push push

Ye can shove yer other grannie aff a bus

push push

ye can shove yer other grannie

cause she’s yer daddies mammie

shove yer other grannie aff a bus

push push

Donald where’s yer troosers?

Just got in fae the isle of Skye

I’m no very big and i’m awfully shy

The lassies shout when i go by

Donald where’s yer troosers?

Let the winds blow high,

let the winds blow low,

doon the street in ma kilt i go

all the lassies shout hello

Donald where’s your troosers?

Clapa clapa handies

Clapa clapa handies,

dadies comin hame,

sweeties in his pockets

for a good wee wean

Wee Wullie Winkie

Wee Wulie Winkie runs through the town,

upstairs and downstairs in his nightgown,

Tapping at the window and crying through the lock,

are all the children in their beds,

its past eight o’clock.

Dan Dan the funny wee man

Dan Dan the funny wee man

washed his face in the frying pan

combed his hair wae the leg of a chair

Dan Dan the funny wee man.

You can also watch videos of songs and rhymes on, www.scottishbooktrust.com/bookbug.

Our final session on the bus was a great success with families exploring the bus together.  Parents and children used their senses to explore some lovely caramel play dough .  To finnish off Lindsay read the children the story “Busters Birthday” and helped us sing some of our favourite songs.

A great big thank you to all families who attended.

Bessie bus unfortunately had to go to the garage to be repaired so the lovely ladies from the bus welcomed everyone into the Rainbow Room for some fantastic fun once again.

Bubbles were everyone’s favourite as we created our very own bubble machines.

 

Families in the birth to three building had a fantastic time exploring the sensory bus.

Here we are using all our  senses to explore together. We also listened to “shark in the park” story and sang some familiar songs and rhymes. We are all looking forward to some messy play on the bus next week.

Children and staff are excited about their new environments. Together they are having great fun discovering new things as they explore and learn with their new room layouts.

 

 

 

The children have thorough enjoyed tasting, delicious sweet potato chips for snack today.

Recipe:

Cut two sweet potatoes into chips, boil for 3/4 minutes, drain then place on a baking tray and cook in oven for approx. 40/50 mins.

Children have been listening and recalling words and phrases within  “Goldilocks and  the three bears” and “That’s not my puppy”