{"id":3126,"date":"2026-04-24T14:41:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T13:41:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/bellsbraenursery\/?p=3126"},"modified":"2026-04-24T14:41:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T13:41:09","slug":"shapes-walks-and-potion-making","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/bellsbraenursery\/2026\/04\/24\/shapes-walks-and-potion-making\/","title":{"rendered":"Shapes, walks and potion making."},"content":{"rendered":"

To encourage hopping activities staff began to draw shapes with ascending numbers on the ground outdoors.\u00a0 Staff drew shapes and numbers up to 10 and some children decided to continue this by adding bigger numbers on the end, “11, 12, 13”!\u00a0 Some children copied the numbers and shapes alongside the originals.\u00a0 Staff modelled hopping from one shape\/number to another on one foot.<\/p>\n

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“I can hop”!\u00a0 \u00a0 “Look 1 foot!\u00a0 \u00a0 “It is wobbly”.\u00a0 \u00a0 “I am balancing”.<\/p>\n

On a walk in our local community the children were encouraged to identify 2D shapes in everyday objects. We saw a stop sign with 8 sides, the children suggested it was a hexagon.\u00a0 We spoke about how a hexagon has 6 sides and an octagon has 8 sides”.<\/p>\n

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“Square, the sign is square, it’s got 4 sides”.\u00a0 \u00a0 “No, it’s a rectangle”.\u00a0 \u00a0 “Love hearts in the window”.\u00a0 \u00a0 “Circle, wheels”.\u00a0 \u00a0 “Semi-circles on the wall”.\u00a0 \u00a0 “Triangle in the grass, it has 3 sides”.<\/p>\n

Children engaged in play with peers using foam blocks in the indoor\/outdoor area.<\/p>\n

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“Do you want to build a tower”?\u00a0 \u00a0 “We’ve made a boat”.\u00a0 \u00a0 “Let’s knock them over”.\u00a0 \u00a0 “This is very tall, you have to hold it”.\u00a0 \u00a0 “That was awesome”!<\/p>\n

Staff provided a tray of sand and added diggers and cars.\u00a0 \u00a0 The children enjoyed spending time digging in the sand with the vehicles.\u00a0 Children then added water from the mud kitchen so the following day staff set up a tray again but this time added half water and half sand.<\/p>\n

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“It’s a beach”.\u00a0 \u00a0 “It splash in the water”.\u00a0 \u00a0 “Need a dumper truck”.\u00a0 \u00a0 “We need clean water”.<\/p>\n

Staff set up a water tray with different coloured water in squeezy bottles, a variety of vessels and some pipettes.\u00a0 Children were supported to learn to squeeze the bottles to release the colours and squeeze the pipettes under the water to fill them and then release before squeezing again to release the liquid. This provided a great learning experience to develop their fine motor skills for pre hand writing.<\/p>\n

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“It’s purple”.\u00a0 \u00a0 “Blue and red”.\u00a0 \u00a0 “I made blue”.\u00a0 \u00a0 “There’s black”.\u00a0 \u00a0 “We need more water”.\u00a0 \u00a0 “I doing potion”.\u00a0 \u00a0 “I made my potion into purple”.\u00a0 \u00a0 “It’s filled up”.\u00a0 \u00a0 “We have orange”.\u00a0 \u00a0 “Would you like some red”?\u00a0 “Yes, please”.<\/p>\n

Children enjoyed taking turns to play a shape monster game on the interactive whiteboard.\u00a0 The children had to try and feed the shape monster the matching shapes.<\/p>\n

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Last term the children chose to create a Tesco shop for the role play area and their second choice was hairdressers.\u00a0 Staff discussed with children if they would still be interested in creating a hairdressers and they were keen.\u00a0 The hairdressers has been really busy this week with children really focused and engaged during play.\u00a0 Children used real life scenarios to inform their role play, working together and sharing the hairdressing resources.<\/p>\n

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“Can you do my hair”?\u00a0 \u00a0 “Can I have this please”?\u00a0 \u00a0 “Have to wait your turn”.\u00a0 \u00a0 “I’ll write you down”.\u00a0 \u00a0 “What colour hair you want”?\u00a0 \u00a0 “I’m sitting here until I get my hair done”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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