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Tuesday 26th September 2017

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It was a day for visitors today, Elizabeth was back for more toothbrushing and Joy came for African drumming.

Mrs Marshall spent some time in nursery this morning. We helped her with her counting.

Brushing teeth.

Singing an African song.

Show and Tell (or Fun and Tell as Leah calls it!). We had to bring something yellow today. We also sang ‘Wind the bobbin up’.

We played outside with the primary bairns.

We went up to the garden. We picked a tomato 🍅 in the greenhouse to share and pulled up carrots. We each took a carrot 🥕 home.

It’s a good job we put our boots on, the tattie patch had been dug over and we enjoyed jumping around on it.

Caroline’s’ cat came to visit us too.

We watched the ferry load up a van and a truck and then watched it leave. We waved and the captain tooted the horn for us.

Reuben took this photo of his friend.

‘Look at me!’

 

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.

 

Wednesday 30th August

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Lots of imaginative play today.

The boat went into the boat shed to be fixed. We used the rope to tow it. Later we made swimming pools, a paddling pool, burgers and a combine harvester.

We played music to help the builders.

We measured with spoons and scoops.

The door stickers move so we changed some of the diggers.

We picked some beans to put into our stir fry snack.

Working out how to get the beans out was tricky. Next we counted how many beans we had. Then we talked about what the pod feels like.

The snack helpers washed and peeled.

Then we chopped our vegetables.

Time to cook.

The noodles were so long and wiggly. We looked at the noodles and talked about the change from hard to soft.

There was lots of outdoor play today. Bubble blowing, catching and stamping too.

Tuesday 22nd August

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First thing this morning the whole school went to the beach.

Testing the depth of the water …

Throwing stones to make a splash … or three!

Collecting and counting shells.

 

Climbing

Paddling and finding things under the water …

We had two stories at snack time. One was a counting story and some good counting and number recognition took place.

After snack we took toys outside along with the bikes. Too nice a day to be in – and no midgies!

Problem solving, when you can’t pedal with two people, pull!

Finding out it’s better to be in the middle when you’re on a see saw on your own.

Show and tell, something from the summer, souvenirs, photos and stories!

When we were in the garden we picked a small bunch of juicy grapes from the greenhouse, yum!

 

Please remember there is no nursery tomorrow because of a power cut. Could anyone who still has forms to return please do so asap.

Monday 21st August 2017

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What we did today:

We welcomed some more bairns into the nursery.

We harvested broad beans we have been growing in the planter outside. “They are furry on the inside.”

We cut the beans in half so we could share them st snack time.

We chose some books from the library to take home.

We took the playdough outside. It was too dry and crumbly so we tried adding some more oil to it. We practised cutting the playdough with scissors.

We tried to have a story outside but the midges got the better of us and we had to stop!

There were fewer midges up in the garden so we went to play there.

“I want to go on the motorbike but the engine is not working.”

“Look, I’m up in da tree!”

We we made collage pictures to take home.

Mrs Odie helped us to harvest carrots from the plant  pot outside too. We tried some and all agreed they tasted yummy.

 

 

Thursday 17th August 2017

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“Look, it spins around!”

“I take it out and iron it.”

We tried to play outside. There were too many midges so we had to run back inside!

We made some green playdough. We measured, poured and mixed.

Joey took a picture of the finished product.

We need some new photos for our welcome wall, boxes and birthday wall.

“Waw, a big New Holldand tractor!”

We discovered the windmill on our way to the garden.

Everyone had a go on the fitness trail

We found purple grapes and green grapes in the greenhouse. We ate some.

We all went outside to listen to a story about going to nursery.