Bells Brae Nursery

Week Beginning: 21st April 2025

Our story of the week is Granny’s Easter Eggs Are Not The Sort You Eat by Becci Murray.

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Our song of the week is Five Little Easter Eggs. Click on the lnk below to sing along to the song.

Our Signalong sign of the week is Eat.

Week Beginning: 31st March 2025

Our story of the week is Colin and Lee, Carrot and Pea by Morag Hood.

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Our song of the week is Five Little Carrots. Click on the link below to sing along to the song.

Our Signalong sign of the week is Drink.

We went shopping!

A small group of children went on a shopping trip to purchase items for Nursery.

Children got to experience searching for the items in the shop, taking the items to the till to pay for them using real money and travelling back to Nursery with the items.

“Bananas and shaving foam is on our list”.

“Thank you”.    “Money to pay”.    “We’ve done our shopping”.

“Stop, look, listen”.

“We wear our vests so cars can see us”.

Children were keen to observe and discuss everything they saw around them on our walk in our local community on the way to the shop.

“Sky is so blue”.

World Book Day 2025

We celebrated World Book Day at Nursery. Lots of children and staff dressed up as favourite book characters and many enjoyed dressing up in Nursery dressing up costumes also.

Lots of superheroes came to Nursery!

We always have a range of books at Nursery for children to explore. Children made their own books at the craft table, folding paper in half and using tape to join them together to make a book whilst discussing what books they liked with their friends.

“I like the Gruffalo”.    “I’m making my own book”.    “I’m folding mine”.

We even had some matching character costumes at Nursery!

We used technology to look at lots of book characters which people were dressed up as, the children loved looking for Wally on the big screen.

We all went to visit the school library where there is a huge choice of books to look at. The children chose books to look at themselves or with friends and then listened to a group story with a staff member.

Listening to a story with our friends during together time on World Book Day. Each day before lunch we gather together to listen to a story, learn signs and learn songs and rhymes.

Week Beginning: 24th March 2025

Our story of the week is Monkey Puzzle by Julia Donaldson.

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Our song of the week is Five Little Monkeys. Click on the link below to sing along to the song.

Our Signalong sign of the week is Listen, to.

Week Beginning: 17th March 2025

Our story of the week is There Was an Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe by Kate Toms.

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Our rhyme of the week is One, Two, Buckle my Shoe.

One, two, buckle my shoe,

Three, four, knock on the door,

Five, six, pick up sticks,

Seven, eight, lay them straight,

Nine, ten, a big fat hen.

Our Signalong sign of the week is Quick.

The children enjoyed listening to The Perfect Fit by Naomi Jones which was one of our stories of the week earlier in the term. The book is about a triangle who doesn’t feel that she fits in with the other shapes so she goes off in search of somewhere that she can fit in perfectly. It’s a great story for introducing shapes but it also teaches us about diversity and inclusion along with the importance of being ourselves.

‘Triangles are pointy.’

‘Hexagons are cool.’

‘The rocket has five squares with a triangle at the top.’

‘This is my favourite book.’

The book was part of a resource pack borrowed from the UHI STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) outreach programme. We had great fun learning about different shapes and finding out about their properties using the interesting resources in the pack. The children sorted shapes into groups, ordered them according to size, used elastic bands on geoboards to make 2D shapes and explored tiling by fitting the shapes together.

‘A triangle has three sides.’

‘Look at my shape pattern.’

‘I’ve got lots of circles.’

‘The shapes are all lined up.’

‘The biggest shape goes first.’

Week Beginning: 10th March 2025

Our story of the week is One Banana, Two Bananas by Adam and Charlotte Guillain.

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Our song of the week is The Banana Song. Click on the link below to sing along to the song while doing the actions.

Our Signalong sign of the week is Like, to.

We had lots of characters in school today including a ghost!  It was a good job we had a ghostbuster too!

Week Beginning: 3rd March 2025

Our story of the week is Mr Wolf’s Pancakes by Jan Fearnley.

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Our song of the week is Pop a Little Pancake.

Pop a little pancake into the pan.

Pop a little pancake into the pan.

Pop a little pancake into the pan.

That’s for my dinner today.

Shake a little sugar with a shake, shake, shake!

Shake a little sugar with a shake, shake, shake!

Shake a little sugar with a shake, shake, shake!

That’s for my dinner today.

Squeeze a little lemon with a squeeze, squeeze, squeeze!

Squeeze a little lemon with a squeeze, squeeze, squeeze!

Squeeze a little lemon with a squeeze, squeeze, squeeze!

That’s for my dinner today.

Toss a little pancake up in the air!

Toss a little pancake up in the air!

Toss a little pancake up in the air!

That’s for my dinner today.

Eat it all up with a yum, yum, yum!

Eat it all up with a yum, yum, yum!

Eat it all up with a yum, yum, yum!

That’s for my dinner today.

Our Signalong sign of the week is Put.