Although this has been a shorter nursery week than usual with the long weekend, there has been no let up in the engagement with play and the opportunities that leads us to with our learning.

There has been continued enthusiasm for our construction and block play areas, both the smaller blocks indoors and the larger, hollow blocks in our “indoor/outdoor” area.  The bairns made a campsite from the large blocks this morning, as they continued to think about where they might go on their holiday travels around the isles.

What a lot of stories we have read this week, and have enjoyed sharing a quiet space to look at books, retelling stories and also drawing pictures of some of the characters we read about.  Lots of wonderful discussions, and some really good listening too.

We have really enjoyed transporting water into the stone chips area, as well as filling up the different sized containers.  We have explored lots of different ways to make marks and patters.  We have also really enjoyed lots of games and different ways to play together this week too.  This has helped us to create lots of lovely things, learn or develop our skills, take turns and share our time and resources as well.

We have been in the hall for gym lessons again this week.  We used our bodies to move in different ways.

Transition activities are also continuing very gently, as we take every opportunity to visit the school, meet the people who go there to work and learn, and look through the window into the Primary 1 classroom.

We have enjoyed meeting some of you on line for parents/carers evenings this week too.  Another very busy week has come to an end.  Have a lovely weekend everybody.