We have been busy working on a couple of new displays in Kingsland ELC.

One is called “Branches of our Learning through play” – this is in our cloakroom area.

We have also been working on our “Learning Tree” which is how we record child initiated ideas and how we have taken that idea forward.

Our outdoor Learning tree is also new, which gives some example of some of the different types of play that go on outdoors.

We really value and appreciate any feedback you can give us about these new displays. Do you find them informative? Is the information clear? Are they appealing to look at?

Any feedback would be gratefully received! 🙂

We have been talking about where different types of foods come from. Through reading a story about Chinese NY, and talking about it we made our own “Chinese restaurant” in our ELC and had two different Chinese snacks! Yummy!

This followed on by some children bringing in some “Chinese” things from home. Two children brought in Chinese dragons they had made, so we decided to make our own! More photos to follow….

We have been exploring what happens to ice and about the season of winter. We have had lots of different activities in our ELC to explore this.

We even had ice lollies for snack to see what happened to them and to see where Mrs Watson kept them before we ate them for snack!

These are some of the children quotes….

“The ice lollies might melt when they get warm!”

“Snow turns into ice, ice turns into water”

“Degrees Celsius tells us if its too cold”

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We have been learning and exploring about Scotland this week! WE have made a “wee hoose” in our ELC, we have been learning some Scottish dancing and been learning a Scottish song/rhyme “Ally Bally”.

We have been having Scottish food for snack too…..haggis yummy!

WE went up to Primary One to do some Scottish singing with them too, Mrs Musgrave had her guitar.

WE had a really busy December! WE performed in our Chritsmas nativity, to both the P6 children and the mummys and Daddys! We were all fantastic!

We made winter cupcakes, and decorated our ELC christmas tree!

We made lots of lovely chistmas crafts, a special bauble to take home and a santa card.

We also had a Christmas part, where a special visitor came….santa!

A big thank you to all the parents/carers who came to our recent stay and play sessions! The children loved showing you round the nursery, and showing you all the things they have been up to!

We have got a busy few weeks coming up with Christmas getting close!
Please remember these important dates for your diary…….

Monday 18th Dec- ELC nativity 10.30am and 2.30pm. Please note maximum of 2 adults per child to watch.

Tuesday 19th Dec- ELC Christmas party (normal session applies)

We have been enjoying some of our story sacks last week. Each of them had a story, then different activities and props in each one!

The last couple of weeks in October have been busy! As part of our role play area,following the childrens intrests, we have set up a “baby area”. We have been out an Autumn walk, reading spooky stories, listening to autumn and halloween music, doing halloween activites and having a dressing up party!

We have been exploring lots of different types of loose parts in our play both indoors and out! From tyres, pipes, leaves, sticks and stones we have lots of things to experiment with!
We build with these things, make things such as a “campfire” and use them to make patterns too!

We have been digging some more vegetables out our garden…..yummy!
We got to take it home and show our paretns/carers 🙂