This weeks snaps of our little learners :)

 

“Look, car tracks”.

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.

 

“I’ve made a camp fire”.

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.

“It’s a garage”.
We said we were ‘Puppies’- “I’ll draw around you to make your paw”.
“We’re having babies, this is the hospital”.

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 šŸ™‚

 

ā€œThe road goes all the way up hereā€.

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.

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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 ā€˜Familyā€™ 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 šŸ“ø.

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.

 

Happy Friday!

We were great at climbing the monkey bars in the playground and helped one another to learn how to climb up and stay safe.

 

 

 

We picked some flowers in the playground and were super kind and gave them to Miss Young & Miss Hay.

“We’re being cats”.

We’ve loved being back in the playground doing

lots of climbing, balancing and problem solving.

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We showed our new starts the pond area, we found some bugs and lots of slugs in the trees!

 

We decided to make them a home to live in before we left the playground again, we decided they needed grass, leaves, flowers & some stones.

Welcome back!

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We welcomed our happy new starts! šŸ™‚Ā 

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.

“Look it’s orange”.

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.

“I’m doing my homework”
Writing numbers with the drawing pad.

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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! šŸ™‚

Last week of term!

Following on from The children role playing ‘Going shopping’ we took the check out and till out this week, we found some swimming costumes and clothes to buy along with the groceries.

We did lots of climbing, balancing and running over

at the football pitch.

 

We used the parachute out in the wind,

we went around it, over it and under it, holding it

carefully so it didn’t blow away!

The children said they were looking for Frog Hoppers in the cuckoo spit found on flowers, they found not one but seven of them! We had a conversation about Frog Hoppers colour, shape and how many legs it had. The children discovered it was an ‘insect’ because of it having 6 legs. The children helped one another look for more frog hoppers by looking around for cuckoo spit and said “They live on the spit”.

“Look at this baby caterpillar”

We watched aĀ  clip about Super Tato (From The Sue Hendra books We’ve been reading) and found it hilarious!

Miss Morrison brought in some crabs, lobsters, starfish & a scabbymans head that was caught at the creels. We spoke lots about the different types of crabs and the facts about each creature.

We then walked down to the beach to release the creatures back into the sea and watched them move freely through the water.

We found some “treasure” and some “welks” whilst at the beach too.

Sports DayĀ 

Everybody did amazing at taking part in the races at sports day and cheering each other on.

“We’ve made a swimming pool, This side is for the big guys and this one is for the little guys”.

The train track has been popular, we worked together to fit the track together and figured that lots of the trains could stick together because they had magnets on them.

We had a ‘Colin the Caterpillar’ come to play at Nursery for the final day before the Holidays, he chomped a lot of leaves throughout the day so we thought he must be like The Very Hungry Caterpillar.

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.

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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! šŸ™‚

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 –

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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’re the three little pigs in the house”.

 

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.

Ā  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’.Ā 

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!

“I’ve made a Birthday cake”.

We used the paddling pool for something different this week, we thought it was very cosy and comfy!

 

 

A week of glorious weather!

 

The pre-Schoolers went through to do some art with Ms Mullay, they used water colour paints.

We chose colours to add to the water then said it was “A Volcano”. We then collected natural materials to bring back to Nursery and said we were “Making Potions”.

We experimented with different loose parts and cars, seeing which could flow down the pipe the fastest.

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The paddling pool cooled us down on the hot day!

Whilst exploring the mud kitchen the children used great imagination to make “Lemon Pie”, “Strawberry Cupcakes”, “Marshmallows”, “Soup with chives in it”, “Grass cupcakes”, “Chocolate soup” & “Mint cupcakes”.

We’re always practicing risk taking and new tricks on the monkey bars in the park!

We took chalk to the playground and did some mark making & made ‘tracks’ all around the playground for others to follow.

It was lovely to read outdoors in the warm sunshine with Miss

Laurenson.

 

Joy brought Sidiki along to visit us in the hall, he showed us his great drumming skills and we showed him what we had learnt, thank you for visiting Sidiki.

“Hands up if you love drumming”.

We took our own pictures using the ipad, We found this really funny.

We created some cards for Fathers Day, We were very good at coming up with our ideas for the cards & writing independently.Ā 

 

There has been lots of constructing ofĀ  great models with the Pop bits & Duplo.

Mr Travins came played us some music outdoors this week since the weather was so lovely. The Sun was so warm we needed to put up the tarpaulin so create some shade.

We’ve been practicing our cutting skills and are great at holdingĀ  the scissors correctly and helping one another.

We’ve used the sand for lots of different things this week, we mixed it with water and said it was “Cement” and that we were ‘BuildingĀ  walls’. We then used it to ‘Cook’ and saidĀ  we were “Bakers”.

We went to the beach to have our snack, we were very lucky to have been given some ice lollies from a parent to have in the sun (Thank you very much they helped cool us down!).

We chose another Sue Hendra book to take with us & Mrs Gilfillan read it to us.

Whilst we were at the beach we seen lots of different things – We seen some boats (One with sheep coming off), Some divers & some people out walking.

 

 

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