Tag Archives: Working Together

Wednesday 25th October 2017

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.”*

Friday 6th October 2017

Today we have had a French themed fun day!

We started with French breakfast.

We made the Eiffel Tower with spaghetti and marshmallows.

We made Cockerels. The cockerel the national animal of France. 🇫🇷

We learned a French song.

We had a competition to see which tower would stand up the longest.

We learned some French playground games.

We have all had great fun working in our groups.

Happy holidays. See you all from the 25th of October onwards!

Thursday 5th October 2017

What a windy day. There was lots of outside play today but not so many pictures. We spent a long time in Primary 1-3 while they were out on a trip.

Matching numbers, counting and drawing.

Sharing the pins and hammers.

“Snap, snap”

Using careful hand eye coordination.

We made a car wash for the trucks.

Playing with number mats and being pirates.

We listened to some new songs and joined in with old favourites. Here we are singing 5 little monkeys.

We listened to Oi frog and Megs Veg.

Making a fruit salad in Primary 1.

We found lots of letters and numbers in Primary 1-3.

We are great helpers.

We took turns to hold he puppets and sing some nursery rhymes.

Twinkle, twinkle is ones of our favourites. What is yours?

Wednesday 4th October 2017

Lots of visiting today.

Sharing the outdoor space with Primary 1-3.

“Snap!”

  

Mixing, chopping and stirring. Making ice cream.

Choosing flavours and flakes.

Sorting out the money for the parlour.

Washing our sand toys.

We had a trip to Primary 1-3 and they came to visit our room.

Number games on the big board.

We have borrowed the duplo from P 1-3.

Friday 29th September 2017

What a windy day!

Playing a game on th iPad. Choosing characters and dressing them up.

Some children from Primary 1 and 2 came to join us.

Parking the cars in the garage.

Helping us to learn to count.

Washing the dishes.

Making icecreams for everyone. Asking what they wanted and making it just right.

“How much does it cost?”

Even the crocodile wanted an ice cream.

We even managed to get outside for a run.

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Some tap, tap, tapping with the little hammers.

Thursday 28th September 2017

We were only outside for a short while today, it was so windy!

Mr Potato Head getting a new face.

Choosing colours for some beautiful butterflies.

Making picture together.

Finding somewhere dry to chat.

“It feels tickly.” (The wind)

Making a cone for our icecreams.

Very careful colouring.

Getting a little help.

Taking turns with our toys.

“We’re going round and round.”

Some more colour choosing.

Making a road for the cars.

Washing the dishes.

Making some trees to go with the “treasure castle”.

Snack time and a story about pants!

Making sure all the cars have a space.

Making a line and counting all the people.

     

We went to the hall for some big movement. Running, jumping, catching, throwing, balancing and stepping.

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!

Friday 22nd September 2017

An outside, inside, outside day!

The sand was still wet and sticky.

We found a wiggly worm and put it in the bug hotel.

Talking about what the vehicle is and where it is going.

Using something new to make pictures.

Discussing who lives in the castle.

Making a friend for Elmer.

An Elmer story at snack time.

Playing out instruments outside, even a little bit of marching too.

Sharing the lego and taking turns.

Measuring and filling.

Lots of running in the wind.

Playing number games with the parachute. How many times can we go around? Using a die to count how many balls to put on the chute and try to keep up.

Matching the pieces to make a man from the picture.

More building.

A pirate and a spiderman pirate shared the wheel.

Lots of hand eye coordination being used.

Pirate burgers!

“It’s pink juice.”

Weaving the strings.

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:

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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

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.

“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.