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This weeks activities.

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Mark making outdoors. 

“It’s strawberry and chocolate ice cream”.
We said we were having a ‘picnic’ with Mrs  Drozdowska, we role played being at school and had our bags full of loose parts, we said these were “Sweeties” and ‘”Ice cream”.

Mrs Gilfillan brought us  in a big box, we chose to paint it and decided it was ‘A rocket ship’.

We got a new creel for our boat and caught lots of different sea creatures in it.

“It feels so soft”.

We love messy play!!

 

 

 

 

 

 

We have been looking after our sunflowers by giving them daily drinks of water and they are now beginning to grow.

 

 

 

 

We mixed up some soap flakes and discovered they turned into big bubbles.

We were great at looking after our babies, we washed them, dressed them and made sure they were well looked after.

We used the loose parts for ‘Animal food.
We played ‘Hot potato’.

 

We were happy to have Gym in the multi-court this week. We practiced our aiming skills with kicking balls into the wooden blocks.

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We controlled the ball with both our hands and feet to get them in and out of the cones.

We practiced scoring goals, we all had great aim and were able to get the ball in the goals.

“I’ve got an ice cream”

Whist at the park we discovered that there were no tadpoles in the pond but we did find lots of slugs and snails, slaters and spiders too, we were very gentle with them and put them back where we found them. We liked looking at all the pretty flowers that have grown too.

 

“Let’s put him back here so his Mum can find him again”

Miss Laurenson did fun Friday with us in the gym hall,

We did lots of aiming, throwing, running and jumping using different equipment.

Expressive Arts, Health and Wellbeing, Literacy, Outdoor Play, Uncategorized

A busy week

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We welcomed a new child to our nursery this week 🙂
We explored the blocks and found letters to spell out names.
Following on from a child’s bringing in a musical instrument, Miss Morrison brought in her accordion and played us some music, we danced and did the actions to Incy wincy spider.

We practiced our ball skills in gym, we rolled them to see who’s could reach the other side the quickest. 

We practiced throwing into the basket ball hoop.

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.

Our windows needed a scrub too!

We got very excited when it started snowing and danced around the garden in it.

We watched it fall and melt on our hands.
“I’ve made gingerbread, it needs to cook in the oven”
We seen lots of flowers whilst out for our walk and discovered there were various different colours, sizes and smells of flowers.
We seen a puppy whilst we were out and about too, it was very friendly and we were very gentle with it.
We used loose parts to make a ‘Bonfire’ and said we were having ‘Popcorn’ and ‘Marshmallows’ around it.

  We were kind and helped one another with the sunflower planting.
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Health and Wellbeing, Sciences

Sunflowers

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Looking at the seeds

 

Today we were planting sunflower seeds together.

We filled up the pots with compost and made a hole with a stick then we popped in the seed.

Everyone has their own pot with their name on it.

We decided that the most sunny spot was the window sill.

We are excited to watch them grow.

 

 

Making the soil ready for the seed
Pressing down the soil
Helping Mrs Gilfillan with the seed
Health and Wellbeing, Outdoor Play, Sciences

OUT & ABOUT

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The Spring tide was so high there was no beach!

it was such a lovely day last week that we had an early snack and spent two hours exploring near the school. First of all we went to the Taing beach and discovered there was no beach! The tide was really high. We found lots of stones and had fun throwing them into the sea. We tried different styles of throwing to see which one worked the best.

Throwing stones in the sea
We found a Scaddie Man’s Head (sea urchin)
One of the frog spawn lumps we found
Searching for frog spawn
We found a big lump of frog spawn in the ditch

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

After the beach we went for a walk in the Stromfirth road to look for frog spawn. We were lucky to find two big lumps. We are looking forward to going back soon to see if there are tadpoles or even frogs!

Expressive Arts, Health and Wellbeing, Literacy

WORLD BOOK DAY

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We all dressed up for World Book Day. Lots of the children brought their favourite book to school with them and dressed up as a character from that book.

 

We played outside in our costumes

It was so sunny, we spent time outside in our costumes. We were all excited and did lots of role play with the outfits.

Later on we dressed up in some of the nursery fancy dress and swapped costumes with each other.

Throughout the day we looked at all the different books and listened to and read stories.

The staff all were different characters from books
Woody the cowboy from Toy Story
The princess and the frog
Sciences

Dynamic Earth – Deep Sea Workshop

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We had a visit today from Catriona from Dynamic Earth in Edinburgh, who did a Deep Sea Workshop with us.

We heard the story of Charlie who lived near the beach and how he was searching for a silver bracelet.

We looked at animations on the interactive board of rock pools and sea creatures. We took turns to put our hands into ‘Rock Pool Boxes’ to feel the contents and see if we could guess what it was.

Catriona showed us how some sea creatures blow bubbles and then we had fun catching bubbles from her big bubble machine.

Catriona told us about Charlie who lived by the sea
Feely, rock pool boxes
Trying to decide what’s inside
Playing a fishing game
Searching for the bracelet with our fishing rods
We all took turns with the magnetic fishing rods
A shark!
Looking at creatures that produce there own lights

We also had scents from the sea we could smell in little containers. One pupil said that the blue container made him feel calm – it was the scent of ‘Sea Breeze’. We all thought the green one was very stinky! – It smelt like rotten fish and seaweed.

We explored a big roll out mat of the sea floor, spotting different sea creatures and someone found the missing bracelet!

We all had great fun and remembered to say thank-you to Catriona before she left.

Health and Wellbeing, Social Studies

Lerwick Up-Helly-Aa Trip

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On Tuesday we had an exciting trip to Lerwick to see the jarl squad and the Galley.

We were all dressed up cosy so we didn’t get cold waiting around. Everyone was excited about going on the bus. Our first stop was in the centre of Lerwick to see the jarl squad.

Everyone was so well behaved and patient waiting for the Vikings to arrive. Then we saw them marching down the street right past where we were standing. We couldn’t believe how loud the bagpipes were!

We got a good spot on the pier and we could see the big red galley-boat. We heard the Vikings singing and saw their outfits up close. They had axes and sheilds with a dragons head on them.

After that we all got back on the bus and went to Clickimin Centre for snack and soft play. On the way it started hailing and we were lucky to be able to get exercise inside, away from the wild weather. We really enjoyed running around the huge area and climbing over the obstacles and sliding down the slopes. We had big beach balls which we kicked around too. Miss Laurenson got a big speaker and we listened to music while we played.

Soon it was time to go back to nursery and we were all hungry for lunch after our big trip.

Thanks so much to all the parent helpers who joined us and made the outing possible.

The bus was fun
Excited to be on the bus

Granny came too!

Our Mum’s came to help

 

 

Waiting patiently

Here they come!
Singing Vikings
The bagpipes were very loud
A very big drum!
Here comes the Guizer Jarl

We saw the Viking up close

 

 

Getting ready to jump
Big jump

Climbing & sliding
Making new friends
Expressive Arts, Health and Wellbeing

Drumming with Joy

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We had our second week of drumming with Joy in the music room on Tuesday.  We all learned how to take care of the drums and how to play them properly with the palm of our hands.

We learned to say hello in a foreign language called Swahili – The word we learned was ‘Jambo’.

In one of the songs  we have to shout out our name and then everyone else shouts our name back . Joy wants us all to be able to do that for next week.

At the end of the session  Joy played a song and we got to dance. In that song we had to pretend that we were different African animals. We all had great fun moving to the music.

Joy says that by Easter we will all be able to play a tune together!

We were being lions
We were snakes in this picture
Everybody joined in the fun
We all got a big drum to play
We listened to Joy’s instructions

 

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