Just a reminder that the Nursery Lunch menu can be found on the Tingwall Primary School Blog – Our Nursery tab – Lunch menu:

Lunch Menu

You can also click on the link below:

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We are currently in week one and will start week two after the holidays.

Morning-snack-WB 28th March 2022

The snack information for the week ahead is contained in this file.

We offer a variety of healthy choices at snack times, with milk as an option at morning snack.  Water is available at snack time and lunchtime and at any other time if the children are thirsty.

Signs of spring has been the main flavour of conversation this week in Tingwall Nursery.  However, there has been such a lot of learning from other areas too.

We have been exploring opportunities to make marks, and use our fine motor skills outside with the lovely weather.

We have been building and creating using lots of different resources and materials.  This has helped us to take turns, communicate with others and collaborate to solve problems.  We have also been working out gross motor skills and muscles very well too!

We have been exploring collecting information.  Using our register information, we are exploring how to use that information to make a “bar graph” for folk to see how many people are in and how many people are out.  It has been working really well alongside our self-registration process.

We have been collecting information from other sources too, such as the outside thermometer and experiencing first hand, what the temperature feels like to us.

We are having lots of fun with our friends and also having time to rest in the quiet space.

We hope you have a super weekend!

 

 

There is continued interest in our Tingwall Frogs this week, as we watch the life cycle growth.  The burn is definitely “jumping” with frogs.

The conversation has been also moving towards other life cycles to observe, such as plant life.  We have been trying to paint and draw our own daffodil pictures this week.  This has helped us see close up the parts of the flower, speak about bulbs and spring flowers and practice drawing what we see.  We know that the daffodils come in all shapes and sizes and sometimes plants that look the same, come from the same family.

The boys and girls thought it would be a good idea to put up a height chart in nursery to measure and see our own growth.  It has fueled a lot of discussion already about size, measurements, growing and numbers.  It will be great to see progress over time.

We have been singing “The Little Green Frog” and reading all about “The Tiny Seed” this week in Nursery.

We were very luck to see some baby lamb pictures too, so keep an eye out for more signs of spring!

We dressed up in our night time clothes and had a group photo taken.   We hope you enjoy the rest of Red Nose Day for Comic Relief and thank you for your donations.

 

We were delighted to spot some frog spawn whilst out for a walk in the community this week.  The find sparked a lot of discussion and interest about frogs and learning about the life cycle of frogs.  The bairns had lots of questions and thoughts:

“What do frogs eat?  I think it is grass”

“Those look more like fish to me!”

“That’s not a baby frog, that’s an egg!”

“Da eggs are peerier dan my hoose.”

“The eggs look like watermelons!”

“I wonder how many eggs there are?”

We have started to write down our questions in our floor book, and find out some of the answers.  We have been looking at frog facts on line, and ordering life cycle cards and small world models.  The discussions have also led on to more conversations and questions about other life cycles.

We have been hearing the story of the 3 little pigs this week.  The illustrations have helped us draw our own expressive pictures of the big bad wolf as he tries to blow down the house of bricks.  There is a display of some pictures just inside the nursery front entrance if you want to have a peep.

Looking at books to help us also inspired more copying letters and pictures from books.  Some children were also able to retell the story of the week to our friends.  Very well remembered!

We had some visitors to the nursery this morning.  People who help us in the world were welcomed in and the children were able to have a quick look at their uniforms.

As always, there is a variety of games and resources to play with in nursery.  These help us learn how to take turns, use our working memory and bring about a huge amount of discussion.  We can use our imaginations and create amazing things.  We can use our motor skills and learn how to be kind and helpful to others. We are very lucky to be able to take our time to learn with these helpful games and resources.

We love being outside!  it helps us develop so many skills in our brains and our bodies.  We are so luck to have a variety of different spaces to learn in outside.  This week we have been making marks with chalk on a variety of surfaces.  We have been moving our bodies and learning to use large resources and spaces safely.  We have also been able to meet familiar people in the playground and say hello.

The snack menu for the week ahead is on the nursery door, and a photo of the menu is posted here too.

 

The ladies from Pre-School Home Visiting Service visited again this week.  They came armed with lots of new games to play, songs to sing and of course signs to learn.  This week we were learning how to sign family members.  We read a story about a family picnic, then played a game to practice signing and then we sang the wheels on the bus song.  We had to choose which family members were on the bus and signed along to the song.  As always, we had a lot of fun learning with the ladies.

Next week the ladies will not be with us at nursery, so they have left the signs, story and games for 2 weeks.  The week after will be their last visit for signalong.

 

We have had another super week, enjoying more light and the changing seasons.  We have been looking for signs of spring and spotting bulb plants like snowdrops and crocuses.

We have enjoyed being outside in the park and exploring how to use the large resources there.  We have been speaking about how we are aware of the spaces we use and how to move our bodies safely in the bigger outdoor space.

Some children made a stage from blocks and put on a puppet show this week.

We also had a visit from Child Smile, reminding us how to brush our teeth, and how important it is to do that for healthy teeth and gums.

We have some visual reminders now up in nursery showing our  nursery rules.  We have spoken about these a few times this week, particularly at the beginning of the session and any times when children may need a reminder of them.  The 4 rules are:

Gentle hands, gentle feet, quiet voices and be kind to our toys and friends.

The children have been building amazing things again this week.  We have had bonfires with marshmallows, a campervan, a puppet show stage, towers and a salmon feed boat and salmon cage from built from Lego blocks.

We have been singing songs, reading stories, writing messages, using numbers, exploring our environments and learning through play.  Our quiet space has been used more this week as children seek out a quieter space in our setting.  There are blankets, fairy lights, cushions and different materials in there to relax with.

Next week our song of the week is the days of the week song, our story of the week is The 3 Little Pigs and our rhyme of the week is Incy Wincy Spider.  If parents want to explore some more super resources from bookbug, here is a helpful link.

Bookbug Song and Rhyme Library – Scottish Book Trust

We have had a lovely week and we hope you enjoy your weekend!

 

Welcome to our new staff Member Lee Paton, who this week has commenced her established post as Support Worker at Tingwall Nursery.  Lee replaces Emma Sandison who left in December.

We have also had a number of relief staff in the nursery covering absences this week and we welcome those staff too.  Practitioner Bonita Riise will be in next week again.