Today we had a Christmas party in the nursery. Miss Stewart took in a massive speaker and disco lights, it was very cool!

We played Pass the Elves hat, you had to sit out if you were holding the hat when the music went off.

There was lots of good songs for wiz to dance to, Miss Stewart tried to learn wiz the Grand Old Duke of York but it was a little bit confusing. We loved making tunnels though!

We played musical chairs too, it’s been a great party!

See you all in 2025 for more nursery fun and adventures!

What a busy month we are having! We got such a surprise when we came to nursery on Monday 2nd December, there was an elf called Jingle and he had hidden secret symbols all around the nursery! We had great fun searching for them, and if we found one we had to draw the symbol on a sheet of paper on the office door. He has been hiding ones every day for us to find, and he moves around every day too!

We went to Tetley & Anderson for a walk one day as we had run out of wrapping paper for our wrapping station. We found Miss Stewart working in the shop so we were a bit confused! We saw Jamie Tetley’s bus too!

The wrapping station has kept wiz very busy and we have been doing other Christmas crafts too, as well as lots of playing.

This week we got to go to the canteen for the Christmas dinner! It’s the first time we have been in the canteen for lunch, it was very exciting, the whole school was there!

This week it was wir school concert. We have been practising so hard for weeks and we all did such a good job singing for everyone that came to watch. Thank you very much to everybody who came to the concert and bought calendars and fudge, your support means a lot to wiz. We will be able to buy new resources for the bairns with the money we made. Nearly the holidays noo 🙂

Blocks are such an important part of our nursery play. Building with blocks strengthens our gross motor and fine motor development, as well as giving us a platform to link to things that we experience in the real world. We have blocks indoors and outdoors so there is no limit to what they can do with them. Ferries are very popular just now, and Amelia even glitzed her ferry up with a bit of bling. Outside Joe was making sure his bridge would be very safe by putting ‘grit’ on top of it so people didn’t slide and fall off, while Hazel was very busy building her Chinese shop so she could sell noodles.

Speaking of grit, we were so excited last week when we got a bit of snowy weather we could go out and play in. We had great fun looking for big bits of ice, we found some massive bits! We also made snow castles and icy potions too. The boys were making sure everybody was safe by making a gritter, and they were very excited to get real grit to put in their gritter. They did a great job making sure the paths were all gritted.

There wasn’t just ice outside, when we came into nursery last Friday there were huge blocks of ice in the water tray with animals frozen inside them! We had to problem solve on how we were going to get them out, Tommy suggested hammers which worked really well for a little bit until the ice got too small to hammer. Joe then suggested water and Hazel realised it would have to be hot water so it melted! They safely got all the animals out then Maggie and Tommy had great fun cleaning the water tray afterwards.

The teachers also froze some paint for us to paint pictures with. It was very cool to paint with.

We have also been very busy this week decorating the Christmas tree and making a beautiful cosy Christmas house. Christian had great fun playing inside the Christmas tree box! The tree is looking wonderful and everyone helped to make the fireplace for our cosy house.

We have also had great fun putting on some Christmas dressing up today. We are definitely all in the festive mood now!

We are also really busy practising on the stage for our Christmas concert. We can’t wait to sing for everybody!

Lastly here are some photos that the bairns have taken themselves on the ipad. They like nothing better than using the ipad to capture what they are up to, and staff love seeing the photos from the bairns point of view. There are some posers among us… 🙂

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!