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Thursday 21st September 2017

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Baking day.

Encouraging independence, posting our pictures to take home.

 

Sensory experiences in the kinetic sand.

Making dinosaur sounds.

Building a wall.

“We’re pirates.”

Getting rigged up for a rainy day.

We had Princesses and bandits.

Measuring carefully.

Taking turns with mixing.

“The yellow bits are making it quite sticky.”

Working together so everyone got a shot of the mobilo.

Adding some extra pieces to the helicopter.

Lots of measuring with different sized containers.

We take turns to be the helper. Counting how many bairns today, finding their placemat. Are there enough chairs, cups and plates?

Then we ask our friends to wash their hands and come for their snack.

We made pancakes today.

“I’m a pirate captain. We are going to Shetland pirate school.”

Our work experience helper playing a game of football with us.

The sand got drier and we scraped it up.

The sand outside was a bit wet.

Wednesday 20th September 2017

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What a busy day! We had the Playvan here this morning and the under fives group came to play too. We also had visits from Primaries 1-3.

Video:

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Before the playvan we had a play in nursery. We’re still building towers -and enjoying knocking them down again.

We are enjoying trying out the dressing up clothes.

Trying out the nursery resources while looking forward to starting soon.

Sean had loads of stuff in the van and set it up for us.

Cars and farm …

playdough … we made pizzas, pancakes and people, a really ‘p’ activity!

Soft play …

 

“These are rusty rivets.”

 

Turning a piece of equipment into stairs.

Learning what size arch the car will fit under …

Snack and a story in the nursery.

Back for more fun, lots of parental involvement.

Magnets are great fun, whatever your age!

Peerie ones  enjoyed playing together.

Great interaction, sharing, imaginative play and FUN!

Who needs dolls?

Not sure that car will be safe in the volcano ….

Parent comments:

“Thanks for having wis, we really look forward to our days with you.”

“It’s been super!”

“I’ve missed you!” (Parent of a P1 with no one currently at nursery)

 

Tuesday 19th September 2017

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More clatch today!

We made moon sand with 4 cups of sand, 2 cups of cornflour, some water and lots of gold glitter.

We dressed up and played at being firefighters after the toy dragon set the pirate ship alight. Joey discovered the fire extinguisher could be filled with water and everyone had a good time squirting it. We set the timer on the iPad to help us take turns.

 

Some of the other dressing up clothes were used today too.

We are still enjoying working together to make tall towers.

We looked at the colours and number patterns on the dominoes.

Ball balancing!

Joy was back for some more African drumming.

Video of our drumming:

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We danced like different African animals.

“I’m painting a picture for Mam.”

We added water to the sandpit to make a “muddy puddle” for the truck to go in.

We chose whether to do show and tell or go up to the garden today.

Monkeys in a tree (complete with sound effects).

Turn taking at being the ice cream seller. Lots of flavours, including melon and chocolate chip!

 

REMINDER – The play van is here from 10-12 tomorrow, all under fives welcome.

Friday 15th September

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A noisy, busy day today.

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“It’s a new Holland.”

We went to Edinburgh and Shetland.

“Yucky goo.”

We found 3 slugs and lots of slaters.

Discussing where the eye should go on Elmer. Up, up, up!

That’s  it!

A pet picnic.

We planted up our avocado.

Mixing, filling, pouring and banging.

Dressing up.

Stories and rhymes and puzzles.

Drawing and colouring.

Playing in the fire station.

Cleaning the tray after the aqua beads were emptied.

 

Very noisy learning. We noticed if we banged the table the rice moved. We moved it right into the middle of the table. Someone was watching closely, “it’s jumping.”

Lots of taking turns and sharing to finish off our morning.