Welcome back to term 4!

It was lovely to welcome everyone back to nursery, hear all their news and reconnect with friends. This term is sure to be a busy one!

Buddies at breaktime. – Wednesday

This will continue on Wednesdays throughout the term. The nursery bairns moving up to P1 are more confident teaming up with their P6 buddy before heading out and remembering their names.

 

Volcano – all week

Working together on the volcano offers STEM learning, social development, and sensory exploration in one engaging project. Problem solving, to decide on the shape. ‘It needs to be pointy at da top.’ ‘And da bottom is bigger.’ ‘Dats lik a triangle, isn it.’ The volcano will hopefully be erupting next week.

Special fluffy visitors! – Wednesday

One of our families brought in their chicks from home, we heard about what they eat, drink, that they have to stay warm and we got to look at their new feathers growing on their wings. Those who wanted had a little cuddle with the chicks, being careful not to squeeze them. To help the chicks feel safe we used both hands to held them, one under their feet and one over their backs. We then all washed our hands afterwards. ‘They are sooo fluffy.’ ‘The feet tickles on my hand.’ ‘He might poop on me.’

 

Rhyme – all week

This week has been full of rhyme! We have been recognising and
playing with sounds in spoken language. This is an easy activity to do at home. Having fun with silly words in rhyme has certainly been a hit when generating rhyming words!

Rhyme Detection: Helping children recognise when two words sound the same at the end (e.g., “cat” and “hat”).                                Rhyme Completion: Pausing during a familiar nursery rhyme to let children “fill in the blank” (e.g., “Twinkle, twinkle, little star, how I wonder what you… are!”).                                                                                Rhyme Generation: The bairns have been creating  their own rhyming words, including “nonsense” words like “shmancake” for “pancake”

Gym Hall Time – Friday

Mrs Garrick is away just now so there was no music this week. We used our hall time for group games, to work on listening skills, coordination and team building. the games included, Duch Duck Goose, Cleaning and Messies, Beanbag balancing, Sorting games and Animal hoop homes.