We have had a busy couple of weeks in nursery.

Lots of play has been happening inside with our shop and the blocks, and we have been doing lots of painting!

We have also been very busy outside and we even found a very strange insect with a lot of legs!

On Tuesday we went for a walk to the shop to get wir errands. We made wir list before we went and knew exactly what we were looking for. Catherine also showed wiz some of the things that they use in the shop.

This week Miss Stewart went on an emerging literacy pre-handwriting course and she got us to draw under a table! This is very good for wir gross motor development and we had great fun doing it!

She also showed us some symbols that we can practice drawing. These are important symbols for pre-handwriting, once we can do them we will be able to start wrting letters and numbers.

Cutting skills are also very important for pre-handwriting to strengthen up the muscles in our hands.

Today is Children In Need so we all came to nursery wearing wir pyjamas and we took in some donations. We made some very colourful Pudsey pictures too.

We have had such a busy first week back after the October holidays. We got straight back into playing both inside and outside!

On Thursday it was Halloween so we came to nursery in our costumes. The nursery has a spooky house for us to play in.

We have been gifted a shopping trolley but we were a bit fed up that we didn’t have a shop for us to use it at, so the teachers made us one! We have had a great day buying things and getting to be the shop keeper too. Some of the boys even made a house with a fridge in it to put their shopping in.

We are really happy to be back at nursery playing with our friends and are looking forward to see what the rest of the term brings.

This term has just flown by, can’t believe it’s the holidays already!

This week we have been very busy building with the blocks. We have made towers and bridges, and we spent a long time working on this ferry together.

Our sensory path was finished this week too. We love it already. Mrs Irvine has done such a good job of laying it.

We are also starting to get excited for Halloween so we made some Halloween crafts this week to begin decorating for it.

We hope everybody has super holidays and we will see you all back on Wednesday 30th October 🙂

It was a lovely day on Tuesday so we decided to walk to the beach to see what interesting creatures we might find there since we love finding insects in the nursery garden. Hazel thought we might see a shark!

We had to wear hi-vis vests to make us visible to traffic, and we lined up and walked with a partner. It was a long walk!

When we got to the beach we started looking for insects straight away but we only found one huge sea slater. They must have been hiding really good from us. We found lots of other kinds of treasure though.

We have also had great fun in the garden this week making recipes from the ‘Myrtle an Meenie’s Gutter Keetchin recipes’ that we got from Ann Marie at Peerie Oorick. The recipes were really easy to follow and we had great fun finding the ingredients around the garden too.

And finally Happy Fairisle Friday 🙂

We have had another busy week at nursery this week. We have been very busy out in the garden playing in the sandpit and we found a huge hole of gutter too!

The playpark is finally open so on Wednesday we spent most of the morning there. The playpark is very good for our gross motor development and also provides an environment where we can take risks and learn to be safe.

While we were at the playpark Andy noticed lots of writing all around the place. He wondered if we could take photos of it then copy the writing when we got back to nursery so that’s just what we did. Everybody loved practising their writing and lots of good mark making was done.

And this week we have made some changes to the nursery layout! We got a right surprise when we came in on Friday morning and everything had moved! We had fun figuring out where everything was now and had a busy morning playing, we even built London Bridge!

Alongside our very busy week of art, frogs and experiments we have of course been playing lots too inside and outside.

We have had a big fascination with lots of different types of weather lately at nursery, mostly because it has been lots of types of weather outside!

Mrs Irvine showed us how to make rainy puddle pictures using symmetry, it was a lot of fun.

Miss Stewart was going to show us how to make a tornado as we have been playing lots of stormy weather games outside, but she could not get it to work! She is going to keep practising so she can try again. We still had lots of fun playing with the tub of water, we did floating and sinking experiments instead!

Sometimes at nursery we are in such a hurry we don’t always remember to wash our hands properly with soap. Miss Stewart showed us an experiment using pepper in water, the pepper were germs! She showed us that if we didn’t put soap on our hands the germs didn’t go away, but as soon as soap was used they go away as fast as they can! We are going to try our hardest to remember to use the soap properly now.

There was massive excitement on Wednesday when Mila saw a peerie frog just outside the nursery fence. He decided to come into the nursery garden so Mrs Irvine catched him and we put him in a box of water for safe keeping until after lunch. We gave him some goldfish food to eat! After lunch we put him in a peerie tub of water and carried him over to the polytunnel to release with the other frogs. We think he will be very happy there!

On Thursday Mrs Irvine showed us another cool way to make pictures by blowing bubbles onto paper. It was great fun but we had to use lots of puff so we got a bit tired. We decided to use our hands instead and then we did mark making with our fingers in the paint.

Today we wanted to make playdough but we have used up all our flour and cream of tartar this week so Miss Stewart showed us how to make bubble foam instead. We had to squeeze out a whole cup of bubble bath, everybody had a turn and it was really tough to do! Then we all had a go whisking it but this was hard work too, even the teachers found it tough, so we used the electric mixer to finish it off. Actions like squeezing and whisking are really good for our gross motor development so we will keep doing them to build our muscles. The bubble foam was so much fun to play with, we put the cars in it for a while, then we realised we could mark make in that too!

Here is the recipe if anybody wants to make it: (Miss Stewart heard it wrong on the video, it’s a 1/4 cup bubblebath, 1/2 cup water and a few drops of food colouring. Mix together until foamy.

We have learnt lots of new things this week!

This week we went back to the polytunnel for a walk on Monday and found more frogs!

We have also been busy hanging out the claes this week. This is really good for wir fine motor development, dat claes pegs can be tricky to use sometimes!

It was really horrible weather on Tuesday, never stopped raining the whole day, so we were very excited to get back outside on Wednesday to play. Of course we found lots of worms and slugs since they love the rain. We also found a muddy puddle that was so much fun to jump into, we even found worms in that!

We have also had fun inside this week, we have been very busy at the playdough, Noah made some lovely bright red playdough for us, and we have attended a few weddings too!

Thursday was quite a windy day but it did not keep wiz inside. We got the wind sock out and it was blowing really high! We also took shelter a lot in wir ‘storm house’, everybody had to pack in when the rain started! We had a giant bit of cardboard that kept blowing away through the garden so we had to work together to get it safely back into the storm house too.

Today was a really fine day so we went down to the play equipment and we ended up joining in play time with the school bairns. It was really exciting to see wir friends that are in P1 noo, and some of wir big brothers and sisters too. We even went on the tar with the play leaders and did an obstacle course with them which was a lot of fun!

This week we got new stones in our construction area as we continue our garden upgrade. The bairns got to work right away loading them up and tipping them out.

Insects continue to be very popular, this week we found worms and slugs. The lasses even found new homes for their slugs!

We have also loved using chalk this week outside, especially getting the teachers to draw around us so we could draw our features, and today we drew around Miss Stewart! We have also been practising writing numbers with the chalk, Joe learned how to write one thousand million!

Indoors, dinosaurs and babies continue to be very popular in our play, this week they all went to toddlers with their babies.

We have definitely made the most of the good weather this week and been outside nearly all week.

We needed errands fae da shop today so we decided to go for a walk to get them, and since it was such a fine day we went to da pier first to see the boats.

We saw lots of creels and huge wooden boxes which Miss Stewart told us was for keeping lobsters and crabs in once they were catched in the creels. She told wiz about the Linga raft too, it can have quad bikes on it!

We went on the sailing ramp for a look. Hazel knew it was sailing boats on the ramp and we saw Andy & Magnie’s Daa’s sailing boat too. We went on the marina for a look next as Andy wanted to show wiz his Daa’s peerie boat. There were lots of boats, some were bigger and some were smaller. We met Andy’s Daa Ian fixing a boat too.

We stopped to look at a phone box, Tommy said he had seen lots of them in Edinburgh before. We found a massive stop sign on the ferry ramp too.

We saw scallop boats, a huge yacht and the ‘Comrades’, the boat the Andy & Hazel’s dads work on!

After all the excitement at the pier we still had to go to the shop for wir errands!

Then it was time for the long uphill walk back to nursery for a well deserved rest and some snack.