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Let’s design our new space!

Hello and good morning to you all! We are delighted that you liked the video tour of our new space and we loved reading through your fantastic comments – thank you!

As promised in the previous post, the ladies have worked really hard together to create a mind map of things we would like to include in our new nursery room. Have a look and see what you think!

Why don’t you create your own mind map with different things you’d like to see in your bubbles? You could cut them out, draw them, paint them, build them – all the creativity is encouraged! You could even design a room or an area of the nursery!

Let us know how you get on, we would love to see your fabulous ideas and suggestions!

Stay safe and have lots and lots of fun 🙂

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“You Choose” by Pippa Goodhart and Nick Sharratt

Hi, everybody!

One of our friend’s mummy shared with us that their child really likes to listen to a story called “You Choose” by Pippa Goodhart and Nick Sharratt.

It’s a book about making your own choices about where you would like to go, what house you would like to have, what pets you would like – so many ideas!  Mummy told us that when reading this book, he started coming up with his own stories! He used his imagination to talk about going camping near a waterfall with his gran, papa and their dog. What a wonderful idea! I bet this story would open up so many fantastic conversations!

If you would like to join in with making up your own stories and ideas, have a listen here:

You Choose by Nick Sherratt and Pippa Goodhart – YouTube

There is also another book in this series – this one is all about Space! Have a listen here:

You choose in space by Nick Sharratt and Pippa Goodhart read by Mrs Emery – YouTube

Did you like them? Which one was your favourite? Did you create any new stories? Remember to let us know in the comments or on SeeSaw! Have fun!

 

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Changes to our nursery!

Hello, everyone! We are all missing you lots and lots and we hope you are staying safe and having fun at home.

We bet you are all wondering what the nursery looks like now with all the changes! So we decided to make a little video for you (well, in two parts ;)) to show you our new room. Just remember it’s still not finished and it’s all work in progress!

Due to the government restrictions and because of the germs we had to split the whole big room into three (3) bubbles. We hope it won’t look like this for long and we’ll be able to play all together very soon!

 

Well – what do you think? It looks so different, doesn’t it? We are so excited! There are still some items we are waiting on to arrive. The ladies are going to create a mind map with all of the things we are hoping to get to make our new areas super cosy – look out for it later on in the week!

Is there anything missing that you would like to see? Any furniture, decorations, toys? We would love to hear from you!

PS – The walls are still very bare but that’s because we are waiting for the cork boards to be put up for all of our fantastic work to be displayed.

Please, let us know your thoughts! We would like to create a mind map with all of our ideas – suggestions from the ladies, you (all of the children) and your families, too! We will be sharing your fabulous ideas here on the blog for everyone to see!

 

 

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Lots of learning on a walk

Hello Everyone

With all the work the children have been doing we thought it might be nice to get outdoors for a while, either on a walk or out in the back with a ball.

While out on a walk the children are learning about travelling safely from one place to another, if out with a ball its all about being safe while kicking, throwing and bouncing.

While walking and playing the children are taking in their surroundings and talking about what they are seeing and doing, using their good listening and turn taking skills to converse with you. Also maybe learning new language and new things as they talk about what they see and are going to do.

When outside the children can use their mathematical skills to talk about  numbers they see on car registration plates, house numbers and counting the cars which they could mark down on paper and tally up when they get home and see which colour/make of car won.

Have fun while outside and please let us know what interesting things you saw and maybe collected. We would also love to know how many cars you counted or bounce of the ball you did.

 

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Jigsaw Challenge

Hi Boys and Girls!

I wonder if you would be able to complete the jigsaw challenge!

Here’s what you have to do:-

  1. Grab some paper, colouring pencils/pens and scissors.
  2. On your paper, draw a picture of something that makes you happy! This could be anything from eating ice cream…walking the dog…dancing…or spending time with your family.
  3. Make use of those colouring pens/pencils to add lots of beautiful colour to your picture
  4. When you are finished, use the scissors to cut your picture into 5-10 different jigsaw pieces! Remember to risk assess and stay safe with the scissors!
  5. At this point you could mark make numbers on the back of your pieces in case you loose any!
  6. Now that you’ve made your very own jigsaw,  it’s time to put your picture back together!

Have a look at what shapes you are creating when cutting, how many pieces you have, what way you have to turn the pieces. Do you have to turn it, flip it upside down? Does it go above that piece or below? Does it go at the top of the picture or the bottom? Lots to think about!

Have Fun!

Wow, that was a challenge! Remember you can make jigsaws with your family and swap with each other to do different puzzles. We can’t wait to see what you create!

🙂

 

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Weather Stories

I hope you enjoy these stories all about different types of weather.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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What is the weather doing today?

Lets have a look at the weather boys and girls.  We have had lots of different kind of weather over these past few weeks.  Snow, rain, fog, ice and even some sunshine.  How about making a weather chart?  You could draw a picture of what the weather is doing.  You could make your own weather chart or with an adults help you could print one of from one of the following links.

https://www.google.com/url?sa=i&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.pinterest.com%2Fpin%2F397794579568402668%2F&psig=AOvVaw1N-9Y6kR6pcj4CWGuXHH5l&ust=1610544138813000&source=images&cd=vfe&ved=0CAIQjRxqFwoTCNDDqMy-lu4CFQAAAAAdAAAAABAQ

 

https://www.google.com/url?sa=i&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.diythought.com%2Fmy-weather-chart%2F&psig=AOvVaw1N-9Y6kR6pcj4CWGuXHH5l&ust=1610544138813000&source=images&cd=vfe&ved=0CAIQjRxqFwoTCNDDqMy-lu4CFQAAAAAdAAAAABAW

Once you have completed your weather chart, you could ask mum or dad to share it on Seesaw.  I would love to see what you have recorded and of course your drawings of the different types of weather.

 

 

Have fun and I hope you enjoy these weather songs.

How about watching the weather report on the tv with mum and dad, and compare it to your weather chart.

 

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Home learning and keeping in touch

Dear Parent/Carer

We hope you all managed to have a lovely Christmas at home together.

We understand that the year has begun under very challenging circumstances with the new lockdown restrictions in place to fight the spread of COVID-19, however we are hopeful that this will be short term.

We want to take this opportunity to reassure you that, although most of our children are at home with their families, we will continue to be here for you and will try to provide as much support as we can.

We wanted to share some of the ways we plan to keep in touch in the weeks ahead in order to ensure continuity in your child’s learning and to work together to support their progress:

  • Your child’s key worker or a member of the team will contact you once per week to check in and see how you are doing and if you need any support.
  • We will share the targets we have set for your child for this term across literacy, numeracy and health and wellbeing.
  • We will upload a range of experiences to Seesaw that you can engage in with your child to hopefully give you some ideas of how you can have fun together and this will also support them in achieving their goals. If you do not yet have access to Seesaw please get in touch and we will resend your child’s link.
  • We will update our blog regularly with a range of activities, ideas and general information – https://blogs.glowscotland.org.uk/re/wpsnursery/.

We know that the situation at present is not ideal, however we also know that it won’t be forever and there is hope for the future.

Please stay in touch and we will get through this together.

Kind regards

Williamsburgh ELCC Team

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