All posts by Laura Brown

Skye Room

Feb 2024

For young children to have an individual response it’s important you do not have a set goal. Children need their contributions to be noticed and valued so they build confidence and resilience. Give children enough space and time to experience and explore. Help and encourage them to develop their own curiosity and creativity. A child’s imagination and creativity are enriched through their awareness of art and other children around them. All of these creative experiences build powerful connections within the brain, Creativity is associated with focus, independence, a willingness to explore and ingenuity.

Skye Room

Block Play Feb 2024

Patterns follow a predictable rule and that rule allows children to predict what will come next. This skill continues though out life and helps children to make sense of the world around them.

All aboard the train.

Role play promotes critical thinking skills. As the children worked together to create the structures they used these skills to resolve  any obstacles that may arise.

Using different resources to promote number recognition.

 

 

 

Lewis Room

How We Learn

 

Practicing our self-help skills.

We all begin to learn self-help skills as babies, and it continues throughout our lives . Self-help skills encourage young children to start taking responsibility for themselves. It promotes a sense of achievement and in turn gives young children the autonomy to make decisions that affect them.

The children are encouraged to help prepare snack. 

 

Using different utensils at snack time help to develop fine motor skills.

 

World Book Day 

We recreated the story of Handa’s Surprise using props.  The children took a particular interest in the animals in the story and had fun guessing what noises they made.

   

Look it’s a wee Monkey “Naomi-Leigh”

 

 

Eco Schools

RSPB

The Children in the 3-5 room took part in the RSPB birdwatch. We learned about how the birds survive when it gets icy and the ground is covered in snow. We learned about how important it is to feed the birds in winter. We asked the children some question on what do birds usually eat?
Freya ” Worms from the ground”
Grayson “Berries”
Joy ” seeds”
The children then made bird feeders using seeds, nuts and fats, they hung them on the bird station along with some water. The children then became “ornithologist” and sat at the window using the binoculars and ipads ready to record what birds visited. We used a bird chart to count, and name the birds we saw. We saw Robins, Seagulls and Blackbirds.
PICTURES TO FOLLOW…………………………😀😀😀😀😀

 

Forest Kindergarten, Skye Room

Our week at the forest

Last week of our forest kindergarten block and what a fantastic week the explorers have had playing games of hide n seek ,find the fairy door and what’s the time Mr Wolf.
Everyday the children chapped on the squirrels door and listened sharing their thoughts and ideas “ I can hear the squirrel snoring “ “maybe it’s watching tv “Think lots of them playing with toys “they are singing twinkle twinkle “After a walk through the park the children decided to make their own park with swings,hammock ,a climbing tree , and balancing logs to crawl walk or run along . Children used sticks ,stones ,rope ,scarves and ribbon to create a fence ,a den house for watching birds , a horse and a scarecrow.
Using a magnifying glass we looked closely at the thorns on the jaggies ,the pattern on the snail and spiderweb.
Spring is coming as we discover daffodils starting to open .
Lots of fun splashing in the burn jumping in mud “feels sticky like gluey””it’s very soft”it’s sound squeaky”
Stories and songs in lunch tent ,roasting marshmallows on campfire and learning how to use tools safely .Another great week we all had in the local woodlands . Anyone interested in a forest bag or a family fun day please let me know
Lewis Room

settling into our new room

We would like to welcome all of our children back after the Christmas holidays and also welcome all our new  children into Lewis room.  We have been spending lots of time getting to know our new environment, our friends and the ladies. Below are some pictures of some of the fun things we like to do while at nursery.