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Wednesday 25th October 2017

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Welcome back!

We were all happy to be back at nursery.

Wax candle pictures.

We can write our names on our pictures.

We have started our topic on light and dark.

We played outside between the showers. We saw some nice rainbows with all of the colours in them.

We had some good rhythms going on.

Lots of pouring and filling int the sparkly water tray.

The nursery band.

Which nut fits on to which bolt?

We can match up numbers to dots.

“Pigs digger.”

“Look I can mak it spin!”

Staff: “Do you want to write your name in the soap?”

Bairns: “No, we just want to make a mess!”

“Messy hands!”

Fairy lights in the dark den.

“See how strong we are.”

We made up a cleaning song while cleaning the windows.

*Reminder: show and tell for tomorrow is “something from the holidays.”*

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Wednesday 27th September 2017

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We’ve had a bit of a musical theme going on today.

We learned about symmetry today when we painted butterflies for our Elmer wall display.

We painted some small butterflies and some very large butterflies!

Oliver made some vegetable soup in the playhouse outside.

“What can I cook now?”

“I want tae mak more butterflies.”

“Can I have some water to make a cup of tea?”

One of the large butterflies. We think it looks amazing.

Mrs Odie brought in her ice cream making machine. We all helped to make chocolate ice cream.

We mixed in coconut milk, honey, vanilla and cocoa powder.

“Can I look at the machine? Waw!”

Now time to taste the ice cream with some fruit at snack time. Delicious!

Look at how many butterflies we have made!

We read a funny story about pants!

Monday 25th September 2017

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Today has been about water play, counting, painting and using our energy!

We sorted the pom poems with tweezers.

“I like drumming.”

“Can we draw a cat?”

We needed an ear for Elmer’s friend on the wall display so we painted one with our feet.

Foot spa-with fish!

Cooking and eating in the playhouse.

Painting ice creams for the ice cream parlour.

Focus on counting. Can you put the right number of pom poms in each cup?

Lottie brought in some balloons. We had great fun throwing, catching and batting them. Lori took a picture of the bairns playing.

We read that story of The Tiger Who Came To Tea. Mrs Marshall brought in a tiger puppet. It tried to eat all of our snack.

We all did some great tooth brushing with Elizabeth from the childsmile team.

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.

Monday 18th September 2017

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Today has been a day of proil and clatch! And lots of other thing too.

Teamwork building the tower.

“I want pink and bubbles in da water tray.”

Shaving foam.

We added some food colouring and mixed it all up.

“Look at my names.”

It’s bigger as me!” Everyone helped to build the tower. It fell over when it got too high but we built it up again.

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“Whar’s da step? I need the be higher.”

Counting the dots on the fish.

We wanted all of the emergency vehicles out at the same time.

“I want tae work we proilly stuff.”

Everyone wanted to decorate a box so we had to move to a bigger table.

Joey wanted his library book about dinosaurs read at snack time. Everyone enjoyed the story.

We ran around the school in the rain to use up some of our energy.

Friday 15th September

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A noisy, busy day today.

“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.

Wednesday 13th September 2017

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Look at what we’ve been up to today:

Printing with leaves……and hands!

Pouring out some clean water for the birds to drink

We made some pizza. Shaun came to watch.

We did some careful chopping.

We chose our favourite toppings. We baked the pizzas in Margaret’s oven. “The cheese will turn into blobs.” – Oliver.

We discovered we really like printing with our hands.

We ate our pizzas at snack time. Yum!

We sang the “cups” song.

We proved we can be very careful and manage our own risk.

We did the “5 little monkeys” poem whilst sitting in the tree.

We found a den up in the garden. It was full of crocodiles!

Tuesday 12th September 2017

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Another busy day.

The bubble dough had dried up a bit so we added some water and made slime.

We coloured in PJ Masks pictures.

The fire engines and micro machines were popular.

Row, row, row your boat … if you see a crocodile, don’t forget to scream!

Arghh! It’s OK, this crocodile only eats autumn leaves!

Lots of stories today, Elmer, The Hungry Caterpillar and Duck in the Truck as well as the songs CD.

The big bairns went first for drumming and we could watch – and listen – through the door.

Even though it was raining we still wanted to go outside, we had to get our boots on first. We picked leaves for painting and printing and took shelter in the greenhouse until the heavy rain stopped.

We painted with water.

African drumming with Joy.

Drumming video:

At Show and Tell we had lots of smelly things, a bath bomb, bubble bath, perfume, playdough, cloves … and a very cuddly dog. There was lots of sharing and taking turns as well as sniffing and water play!