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Early Years 2023-24 Term 2 Week 6

December 1, 2023 Mrs Malcolmson Leave a comment

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After our music practice, we headed through to the soft play area and the bairns used the gross motor skills for climbing, jumping and balancing. They also explored the role play area and made models using the magnetic bars.

We headed down to the Salvation Army polycrub on the bus and when we arrived there were lots of jobs to keep us busy. The bairns trimmed the geranium plants and repotted their cuttings to take home. They made room for some new geranium plants and had a smell of garlic. The bairns even found some loose parts (plant pots) to make a telephone! They fed the chickens and visited the goats in their new home inside the second polycrub.

The bairns have been engaged in building structures using Magna-Tiles, such as houses, castles, garages and a spaceship. They incorporate their imaginative play and have spent extended periods of time creating their own settings.

The Library Van came back for a visit and the bairns headed aboard in small groups. Each group chose a book to take back to nursery. In their groups, they discussed why their book should be chosen and we ended up with a great variety from Sir Scallywag and the Deadly Dragon Poo to a factual book about giant machines.

A bairn with a keen interest in ice cream wondered about how it was made. We found a recipe on the iPad and after watching a video, we wrote out a shopping list and gathered the ingredients. The bairns added the sugar, cream, vanilla and milk to one bag and the salt and ice to another and got to shaking. After the ice cream had formed it was time to have a taste “yummy”, “it’s very cold”, “it’s a bit icy”. If you fancy making your own, it only takes 6 minutes!

How To Make Ice Cream In A Bag – My Fussy Eater | Easy Family Recipes

Here are the rest of our photos of learning and fun from this week. The bairns have been playing lots of different games and making up their own.

Early Years 2023-24 Term 2 Week 4

November 17, 2023 Mrs Malcolmson Leave a comment

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This week has been World Nursery Rhyme Week and we have enjoyed taking part in games and activities as well as learning and revisiting this years focus rhymes. The Magical Rhyming Tray also made an appearance building their knowledge of the sounds within words and rhyme.

At our music session with Mrs Garrick the christmas show preparations have gone up a notch and the instrumentalists have been learning their parts.

The soft play equipment is always a temptation for the bairns while at the village club for music so we stayed down for a play.

On our way to visit the Salvation Army polycrub this week, we discussed the size and speed of the cars and how we could remember the distance between the nursery and the polycrub. We spoke to the new pygmy goats and the noisy cows in the shed. The bairns planted their own strawberry plant, making sure to give it some water before taking it back to nursery to take home. Then it was on to planting spinach by loosening the soil, making a hole and placing the seedlings inside.

We were very lucky to be able to offer a placement as part of the ‘Modern Apprentice for a Day’ programme. The bairns took full charge of showing them around the setting and introducing everyone.

It was so great to see so many of our families at the pasta and pizza night. Thank you all for coming out to have your tea with us!

Children in Need. We joined the school for an assembly and had some Pudsey fun and games!

Early Years 2023-24 Term 2 Week 3

November 10, 2023 Mrs Malcolmson Leave a comment

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This week we started our music lesson by moving to the beat and warming up our muscles. We did lots of practicing for our Christmas concert and then finished off with a super fast Heads, Shoulders, Knees and Toes.

The bairns made use of the soft play area, building structures to jump from and making an ice cream shop.

A couple of the bairns went on a trip to the Salvation Army polycrub with some of the school bairns. They took up the strawberry runners and replanted them. There are a number of strawberry plants in the nursery honesty cupboard for sale. The bairns sampled some raspberries which was a highlight of the trip. The hens were fed too with handfuls of crushed egg shells.

We were delighted to have a visit from Miss Irvine and her baby. The bairns were keen to find out more about their little visitor and noticed that she had four teeth. The bairns read lots of stories to the baby making sure she could see the pictures.

We’ve had another busy week and here are just some of the learning that has taken place.

We listened to a short story called Poppy’s Day which follows a little girl finding out about Remembrance Day and why we wear poppies to honor those lost to war. The link below is a two minute video containing the experiences of animals on a WW1 battlefield. After listening to the story of Poppy’s Day, the bairns were keen to make their own poppies.

(1) CBeebies | Poppies animation – YouTube

Early Years 2023-24 Term 2 Week 1

October 27, 2023 Mrs Malcolmson 1 Comment

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We were delighted to welcome the bairns back this week after our October break. It was an exciting first morning with a trip to Lerwick on the service bus to see Paper Moon, an interactive adventure show featuring Poppy and her dog Peppy. We meet Poppy and Peppy and find out they love all things space. Poppy dozes off under the bright light of the moon. This is just the start of the adventure. Suddenly, Poppy wakes up to discover that MoonMoo (the cow that jumped over the moon) has got stuck on the Moon! Poppy and Peppy begun their mission to rescue MoonMoo and with the help of the bairns they walked on the moon, fought off a meteorite and found MoonMoo. After the show we went on a quick walk which took us around the water’s edge at North Ness. The bairns were curious to find out what was inside the big red squares on the wall. We had a look and found life rings showing the words Lerwick Harbour. We spoke about how these could be used to help rescue someone who had fallen into the sea by helping them float and be pulled back to shore.

The bairns have been engaged in various fine motor activities this week. This has also involved imaginary play in the small world area and playdough station.

Childsmile visited this week and the bairns brushed their teeth following the directions.

The bairns have settled back into the nursery routines which has supported their play. We’ve noticed how much collaborative play has taken place this week already. The bairns have discussed the best way to include their friends, how they want to continue their imaginative play and worked together to build.