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Category Archives: Expressive Arts
Welcome back! :)
We liked having the stepping stones and hoola hoops out to practice our balancing and co ordination.
“It’s treasure”.
Block Play
There was been lots of block play recently which has made the children do some great problem solving and team work, creating a variety of different models.
“Let’s make a big tower”.
Miss Hay took us in a long tube, we used it to put cars down, they went super fast into the basket!
We pretended we were at ‘Monster school’, we were great at following Miss Youngs instructions to gain us some stars, ours roars and stomps were very loud (and scary!!).
We had some fantastic costumes and face paint in Nursery for Halloween, even the teachers dressed up!
We listened and danced to some music and played some musical statues and bumps for Halloween.
We created some spiders using loose parts.
We used glue and straws to make some ‘Ghosts’.
The craft area has been very busy this week with lots of different materials, some spooky pictures and models have been created! 
We were experimenting with the pipe to see how fast the water flowed down and if it would go into the bucket.
” We’re going to Italy”.
We discovered the grass and the leaves were frozen, We said it was because it was ‘Cold’ and ‘Icy’.
“We’re making Scooby Snacks, they have baking powder and secret ingredients in them”.
We helped prepare the fruit for snack and spoke about all the different types you can get and had a conversation about fractions as we cut them.
“We’re making a sunshine Island, like I seen on my holidays”.
We were very lucky to be donated this old laptop by a parent (Thank you!) after it was requested by a child, it spurred on lots of role play and we said we were ‘Doing jobs’, ‘Working in the shop’ and it even was made in a ‘Till’. We spoke lots about currency, the cost of items and what items you might find in a shop and the role of a shop keeper.
Last week of term
We did some ‘cooking’, we said we were “Making pie” and “Something spicy” that needed “Cooking in the oven for four minutes”.
We hydrated the soil in the polytunnel as it had dried up.
Mark Making
We have done some amazing drawings this week that have been very detailed and involved speaking about different emotions of the people in each drawing.
“We’re in our bear hunt house”.
We said the bear couldn’t see or catch us from our ‘hidden house’.
We used the new polytunnel for a number hunt, some of us could recognize the big numbers from 10-20.
Thank you to everyone who took part in our tattie guessing game and purchased bags, the total number in the bucket was 230. Well done to the winner with the closest guess of 205.
We tasted our tatties at snack time and thought they were yummy. We then used some to print in paint to create some great pictures.
Following on from all our tattie
work this week Miss Hay read us a Supertato story.
Miss Young found a rose hip, she cut it open us to see the seeds and to smell.
The autumn coloured rice has been popular this week for scooping, filling and pouring.
We built a den, lots of us could squeeze into it.
We loved Mr Travins singing to us whilst we had our snack.
We had our gym lesson outdoors again, we did lots of energetic play, games and used great imagination and skills with the balls and the hoops.
We’ve been busy at the block play area making “hay for the horse” and “A Castle”, we did great team work to problem solve and build.
We baked some cupcakes to end the week and use up cupboard ingredients, we looked carefully at the scales to weigh each ingredient out in grams.
This weeks activities
We welcomed a new child this week who has settled in really well thanks to our current children being so kind and supportive! 🙂
We wrote some ‘Secret messages’ for our ‘Nursery Trow’ because he’s a bit cheeky and sneaks around our Nursery without us seeing.
We helped Miss Young bake some Gingerbread men to take home, we discovered when we checked the oven that they had escaped and we had
to go on a hunt to find them. 
We ended up finding them all hiding in the library.
Miss Young then read us the full ‘Gingerbread Man’ story.
We’ve used the loose parts and playdough well this week to make some great imaginative creations.
We worked together to fill the container all the way to the top and said “Its full up”.
We’ve been adding lots of great creations to our Learning Stories.
We sung and danced around in the rain taking turns of the new umbrella.
We practiced our ball skills using different kinds of balls in the multi-court with the nice day, we could throw, catch, bounce and roll them.
This week we combined our Numeracy with The Children’s interest of cars and had matching activity out where they matched the number on the cards to the toy cars.
We went on another gingerbread man hunt, this time we
found 11 of them running around in the gym hall!
This weeks snaps of our little learners :)
Following on our interest in cars, Miss Young helped us to create a ‘Car wash’ for them as they were a bit mucky!
We found a ‘Secret passage’ through the trees and discovered we could follow it all the way through and get out at the other side.
The blocks outdoors have been used well this week to create various things such as ‘paths’ to balance on, A ‘puppy house’ & ‘puppy toys’.
We explored different ways to get the wood to balance and problem solved how to make it ‘higher’ and ‘lower’ and then if we could go ‘under’ it or’ over’ it.
We took the bikes to the multi-court and spoke about road safety, we were great at keeping ourselves safe and wearing the helmets.
We welcomed a new start this week and have all been very kind to help them settle in 🙂
We had a visit from Anne Marie who came and read us her stories about Peerie Oorlicks, she then helped us make our very own Peerie Oorlick with paper, felt and wool.
Please feel free to have a look at our floor book outside The Nursery door which The Children have lots of involvement in adding their voice and pictures each week.
We have also started a ‘Family’ display in our quiet room if you would like to contribute your Family photo you can email the picture to the main office for us to print off 📸.
Lately in Early Years
We’ve had a busy and active few weeks in Early Years-
We’ve made playdough (We chose to mix blue and red together to make it purple), explored colour mixing with paint to make new colours, baked some healthy pancakes, practiced washing our own dishes after meals, found lots of bugs to look at in our bug viewer & went for a trip to the beach where we found lots of things including a jelly fish, mermaids purse, various stones and shells & crabs!
Whilst by the playground we spotted a frog hopping around, Miss Laurenson helped us to release it into our pond where we watched it leap and swim.
Messy play (Gloop, Foam and paint), building with blocks and loose parts and exploring nature making ‘food’ in the mud kitchen and finding and learning about different creatures has been some of our favorite things to do lately, We’ve been very lucky to have nice weather being out and about too.
Welcome back!
We welcomed our happy new starts! 🙂
We also welcomed our new Modern Apprentice-
Miss Young who will be doing her second year placement with us.
We’ve made good use of the loose parts this week & have been doing lots of imaginative play with them, here was a “Fire” & said it was “Hot”.
We played ‘Families’ together and were great at looking after each other.
We created our own place mats for snack & lunch times, this sparked lots of conversations about different types of food and which ones are our favorites.
The kitchen was turned into ‘A shop’ & we used the till and spoke about different money and quantities.
We experimented how high we could get the blocks to stack then turned them into a road to balance on, we said “The floor is lava” so had to very carefully balance along!
We’ve liked having orange sand this week, we added lots of different loose parts to it for filling up and pouring. Some of us even liked having vehicles in it.
The playdough has been popular to create lots of different things this week, mainly “Cakes”.
We made some carrot cake muffins upon a Child’s request, we were great at following the recipe to grate the carrots, measure the ingredients and mixing with help from Mrs Morris! We said “They smell yummy” whilst they were cooking in the oven.
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We liked being back in our outdoor area & have been doing lots of different things out there including block play, energetic play using equipment, water and sand play and being back role playing in our boat.
We liked being back in our outdoor area & have been doing lots of different things out there including block play, energetic play using equipment, water and sand play and being back in our boat.
^ We’ve had lots of happy faces like this one being back in nursery! 🙂
Happy Friday everyone! :)
With the paint this week we used rollers instead of brushes and looked at the different colours we mixed and the pattern each roller made.
We made “A castle” using the blocks this week, great team work was done to plan how to do it and then create it.
This then led on to bring the Duplo Castle set out which we were great at building independently, even the tricky bits! We especially liked the “Fire breathing dragon” that lived in the castle.
We had a visit from ‘Shelby’ and ‘Little Dude’, we learnt lots of facts about tortoises from the parent who brought them in and got to feed them some flowers too. Thank you for visiting us! 🙂
One of the children told us “If I was a tortoise I’d eat apples”.
We made our own necklaces and bracelets using the large selection of new beads and were very proud of them.
We practiced some sports day events at the football pitch, it was great to have so much space and some suntoo!
The Primary Sixes came to speak to us about Bike Safety and the importance of helmets and did some helmet pictures with us.
– Nature –
We visited the Pond and found lots of things in the surroundings, We seen lots of Painted Lady Butterflies, bumblebees and some spiders too,
We were managing taking risks by climbing the trees independently.
We said we were ‘Mams’ and we were ‘Cooking’ for our Babies.
We used loose parts from around the playground and said we were adding “Sugar”. We then sat down and said we were ‘Having Dinner’.
We said the blocks were ‘Raspberry and Strawberry chewing gum’.
We wanted to take back some of the nature items from the playground and chose water and colouring to mix in with them.
We said the gloop was “Sticky”.
We expressed an interest in role playing Doctors so took out the Hospital box which sparked lots of conversations and learning around job roles.
Playing ‘Doctors and Nurses’.
We took down Doctor notes for each ‘patient’ and helped them get better with bandages and ‘Strawberry medicine’.
We requested to take the car mat and cars outdoors.
We made a fresh batch of playdough and picked orange food colouring to add to it, we said we thought the new children that were visiting would like orange!
We used the paddling pool for something different this week, we thought it was very cosy and comfy!
Happy weekend everyone!
We love messy play so this week we had spaghetti and moon sand, the children then added Sea life as they thought it looked like a beach.
We’ve loved mark making in all areas around the nursery this week & have seen some great drawings and progressions in writing.
We were ‘performing’ on stage for Miss Morrison to some music.
We were scooping & transporting stones and watching them flow down the pipe whilst doing great team work.
“We’ve made a tower”.
Love Learning Love Life Day.
We were all great at being brave and performing what we’ve been learning with Joy in front of the whole school and Parents / Carers.
We’ve revamped our Quiet space with some sensory resources, twinkly lights and pictures. We’ve liked having a dark space to ‘relax’ and look at the colours of different lights.
We like reading stories to each other in the area.
“We’re cooking Dinner in our house, I’m the Mammy”.
“What are you cooking for Dinner?”
“I’m adding Salt and vinegar”.
“We’re making a submarine”.
- The boys worked together well to source loose parts from around the park and figured out how to get them all to fit together.
Practicing our balancing and risk taking.
We loved using the mud kitchen, we found lots of nature resources to add in to our pots and used great imagination to ‘cook’ some “Butter cupcakes” and some “Chicken’. We then put it inside the ‘oven’ to cook. We said we set the temperature to “Fifty Nine”.
We had great fun spinning around in the spinning top then hiding under it.
Driving our nice clean boat after we gave it a good scrub. 
We asked for some colouring in the the water and mixed it in with bubbles and said “Look it’s changed colour”.
A busy week
We practiced our ball skills in gym, we rolled them to see who’s could reach the other side the quickest. 
We were great at listening to the instructions from Mrs Drozdowska.
We decided our boat needed a wash so worked together to scrub it clean again.
We got very excited when it started snowing and danced around the garden in it.
We were kind and helped one another with the sunflower planting.
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