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Wednesday 27th September 2017
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!
Wednesday 20th September 2017
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:
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
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:
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
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.
Monday 11th September 2017
We have had an Autumn themed morning. Mrs Odie brought in some leaves from her garden to show us.
Singing and dancing in the rain!
We painted our boots to make footprints.
One of the bairns found a hedgehog in their garden. We made our own hedgehog in the nursery.
Mrs Odie is going to make a tree handprint.
“Look, I got a number 3!”
The girls chosen a game to play out in the area.
The lasses washed the peerie dinosaurs…. then they washed the sink!
We made our own water tray outside.
“We might get a rainbow because it’s a sunny, rainy day!” (Lori)
We found a clock beetle, centipedes and a slater. We put them in the bug hotel.
“We are going to Edinburgh on da boat. We need lots o water in case we get thirsty.” Lori.
We listened to some great action songs on “The wheels on the bus” cd.
We read the story of “Elmer’s Friends.”
Just a reminder to say can we please have toothbrushing consent forms back this week as the Childsmile team will be coming to visit the nursery. Thank you.
Wednesday 6th September 2017
We made more music.
We did salt painting. It was great fun and we learned more about colour mixing. We used food colouring in droppers to mix the colours. Â “Look, I’ve made orange.”
The workmen are going to make a new playground.
We listened to “5 little ducks” on the iPad then sang the song with our own set of ducks.
“I am the forklift!”
“We need a rope to stop the rock from getting away.”
We have changed our baking day for this week, so we “baked” some bubble dough.
The recipe:
We did calendar today. We learned about the day, the date, month, season and weather.
“I’ll set out the cones. You count them.” We learned that 6 and 1 more makes 7.
We worked together to make the tractor jigsaw.
We took the bikes out at the end of the session because the sun came out.
Monday 4th September
A busy day today with an unusually all girl group.
We had great fun with the water beads.
The big bairns came for a visit and a play at break time.
We made lots of sandcastles.
We took out the Barbies and Action Men and made Barbie  City with some shoeboxes.
We are reading Elmer stories and making an Elmer display with our artwork. Today we did printing with apples and peppers. We listened to the story Elmer and the Windy Day. The elephants in the story held onto each other so they didn’t blow away so we went outside in the wind holding onto each other too.
We did writing and photocopied it.
We made the tea with noodles.
The big car got stuck in the garage but it was rescued – phew!
We overlapped cellophane on the light box to make new colours and cut up pies to make our own patterns.
We enjoyed playing with the musical instruments today.
Below is a video of a music session with the band.
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Friday 1st September 2017
A very busy morning in nursery.
“I want to play with da sand, I can mak sandcastles.”
“It’s Elmer!”
More tattie printing.
Someone is good at balancing!
We made some cupcakes to sell at the charity teas in the hall this weekend. We weighed and measured ingredients on our new digital scales. Continue reading Friday 1st September 2017
Wednesday 30th August
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.
