We’re updating our achievement wall in Early Years & would love to add your child’s home achievements to it. This could be a certificate from a class or lesson they go to or a photo of them riding a bike or doing an activity they’re proud of.
If you would like to add to our display please hand them to a member of staff in Early Years or if you require us to print anything please email- Lindsey.hay2@shetland.gov.uk
Monthly Archives: February 2024
Have a nice long weekend! :)
Our main focus has been ‘Road Safety’ this week after a big interest in cars, we had a visit from our lollypop lady who explained to us her job role and showed us how she safely gets people across the road. We have a pupil who crosses the road every day using the lollypop lady. We went for a walk in the Strom Road to see what road signs we cold spot, speaking about which shapes each was. This gave us the idea to create our own signs at the craft table and spoke about what each sign means for both people and cars. We were very creative and used the junk to create our own traffic lights and acted out the role of the lollypop person to safely people across the road.
We looked at shapes around our environment after observing what shapes some of the road signs were. We were great at noticing what shapes different objects were.
We made some ‘Moon dough’ for our sensory play this week, we said- “It feels like foam”, “It’s sticky” & “It feels like ice cream”.
We visited the polytunnel, we liked the number grid and circled around the numbers which were ages of people we knew & stacked up the cushions to see how high we could get them.
We added new loose parts in our indoor outdoor area and children chose colours to mix with them & said “I’ve mixed blue and yellow so now I have green”.
We had some lovely sun beaming in our window so could see reflections on our wall from our sparkly jumpers.
We made a stage using the blocks again and pretended to have our own concert where we performed for one another, we decided it was a ticketed event & created tickets for one another.
We said goodbye to Miss Young 🙁 We wish her all the best in her new job & will miss her very much!
In Early Years this week..
We’ve had a lot going on this week!
Our Kitchen turned into a Chinese Restaurant for Chinese New Year, we learn all about the Chinese traditions, things they like to wear and eat and all about The celebration.
Seeing how big our puddle outdoors had gotten with all the rain lead to lots of running, jumping & splashing & seeing who could make the biggest splash. We even tested out which objects could float and which sunk in the puddle.
There were some big hail stones that came down, we gathered some in a bowl and had a closer look at them using the magnifying glass.
Lots of family portraits were drawn outdoors on our chalk board this week.
We baked pancakes for Pancake Day then spread them ourselves. We even had a shot at flipping some pretend ones which we made using playdough ingredients, we then used loose parts to decorate them. We said-
“I’m using strawberries for my topping”.
“I’m putting sauce on my pancake”.
“I like honey on my pancake”.
We celebrated Valentines Day, We spoke about what ‘Love’ means & created some crafts for those we love. We made some ‘Love potions’ & liked having red rice for our sensory activity this week. We then had a red / heart themed snack & the canteen gave us heart shaped shortbread for our pudding.
We had some visitors that came to read us a story, & do some songs & rhymes with us (Chloe & Bookbug). We were great at remembering the words to sing along & even learn a new song about ‘A peerie spider’.
We’ve been doing lots of colour mixing with the paint this week, we then read the book called ‘Mixed’ which is inspired by colour.
We’re loving music this week, we followed the dance moves on the interactive whiteboard then created out own music with the instruments.
We used beads & string to copy sequences and patterns and spoke about the different shapes and sizes of beads we had.
We played Bingo, this was great for our number recognition, listening and following instructions.
We took a trip to the beach, it was a very wavy day & we found some “treasure” & a “baby starfish”.
Another cold week
Another week of snow!! We’ve had lots of fun playing in it. We danced in it, we made snow angels, snow balls & searched for numbers in it & even added colours to it & said it was “An ice potion”.
We continued our interest in cars & made a ramp using pieces of wood outdoors this time, we problem solved to see how many pieces we would need for the big vehicles to fit down & figured 3 worked well.
We liked having Mr Travins back in playing us some music and singing us some songs.
We had Childsmile in observing our brilliant toothbrush skills, we got some stickers for being top brushers!
We did lots of problem solving with the blocks to make ‘Houses’ big enough for each other and for Paddington too!
We baked some scones, we had to measure, pour, mix and kneed the mixture before baking them to eat for snack.
We had The Nesting & Girlsta Up Helly Aa in to visit us so we could show off our helmets and shield we had made.
We started making speaking about Chinese New Year so made some lanterns out of sliced paper and craft materials.
January Snaps
Waw, What a busy month We’ve had in Early Years!
We’ve created lots using various different size and shaped blocks-
“It’s Paddington’s Tower”.
“It’s a tower”.
“It’s Paddington’s House”.
“It’s a puppy house”.
” It’s a chair”.
“I’m making a tower bigger than me”.
We had a new child start in the setting and celebrated a 4th Birthday. We have been helping the teachers prepare snack and set the table each meal time, we were great at counting how many plates and cups were needed each time.
Mrs Gilfillan brought in an Amaryllis for us to plant, We’re checking on it every week to water it and measuring for growth.
Show & tell is on going and We’ve been great at listening to one another and asking questions about each others items from home, We’ve become a lot more confident and willing to speak in front of the class with this.
We’ve been loving messy play and helped make some different coloured slime and playdough.
We liked having some Grandparents in for stay & play.
From making garages and ramps out of junk for our cars to making our own Galley boat, helmets and shields as we go into The ‘Up Helly Aa’ Season, we’ve been very creative in Early Years. We’ve learnt lots about Vikings and what Up Helly Aa means to us and even got to meet two Vikings that were in the Lerwick Up Helly Aa (Thanks so much for visiting and letting us having a look and hold of the equipment). We even learn about the burning of Galleys, how fire is made and how to safely manage a fire as well as put one out, we even got a special treat of marshmallows that we had toasted on the fire.
Happy Friday
Due to some technical issues with the system we are unable to do an end of week photo upload. We will update you on Monday with lots of January snaps, have a nice weekend everyone! 🙂
Snow Days
Thanks to those who shared their snow day photographs with us, we’ve loved seeing what you got up to. We thought it looked like you had lots of fun alongside doing some home learning with your great experiments.
