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!