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

Last week of term

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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.

“We’re on a pirate ship, We’re the pirates”.

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.

“Look I found some berries”.

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.

“This is the airplane,We’re going to Africa”.

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.

Health and Wellbeing, Literacy, Mathematics, Outdoor Play

Homegrown Tatties

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Back in May we planted some Tattie seeds. 

 

We’ve been checking on them to see if they were growing  and watering them over the months. Today we dug them and discovered loads of Tatties had grown, we gathered a whole bucket full!!

We thought we would do a ‘Guess how many Tatties are in the bucket’ game to be able to win a bag for free, this is available outside the nursery door for  50p a shot. We will then be bagging up the rest for you to purchase for £2 a bag, please let a staff member know if you would like a bag.

All money will go towards our Nursery fund for purchasing new resources for our environment.

  They were all difference sizes, some were big and some were  really really tiny.

 

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
Health and Wellbeing, Outdoor Play, Sciences

ICY ADVENTURES

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Broken bits of ice
In a boggy part
The north wind was cold on our hands and faces
Fun on the see-saw
Footprints
We listened out for the scrunching sound when the ice broke
We broke the ice in the puddles

We went for a play over in Strom Park today. We thought of three different ways to play.

We showed good turn-taking on the see-saw and really enjoyed that.

Others played a chasing game on the ramp to the clubhouse door and the rest of us spent time breaking the ice in in the boggy puddles. We enjoyed listening to the scrunching sound as the ice broke, and noticed how water turns to ice then melts again.

We took great care walking there and chose the safest routes away from icy areas to reach our destination. We realised that the grass was the safest place to walk.  We had to go back to nursery when our hands and noses were freezing cold!

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Todays activities

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Getting ready to do some dancing.
We enjoyed playing musical statues
We enjoyed dancing to ‘Farmers in the den’
The farmer, wife and child
The farmer, wife, child, nurse, dog, bone
Carefully cutting the food out for their placemats

 

Today we enjoyed going to the gym hall to play some dancing games. We enjoyed playing musical statues, farmers in his den and The Hokey Pokey. Everyone enjoyed doing the different games and trying to be so still during musical statues.

We then came back into nursery and decorated some place mats for us to use at dinner time. Everyone tried so hard and had good cutting skills.

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Happy New Year

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Fun in the water tray
Trying so hard to pick up the bears with tongs
Drawing and practicing writing numbers
Colouring in Peppa Pig on the smart board
Helping each other to pick different sounds
Making a frozen jigsaw
Finished jigsaw, they were delighted with the outcome
Making pictures
Helping ourselves to lunch today to encourage independence.

Happy New Year Everyone. It was so good having everyone back in today. The children were very excited to tell us what they got from Santa. We had great fun in the nursery today, craft table , playing games, jigsaws, drawing with chalk and we went outside too.

We also introduced ‘serving yourself at snack and dinner’. The children enjoyed putting their own food on the plates and choosing how much food they wanted. There was good communication about passing plates of food and jugs of water. Great work everyone 🙂

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Snow Day

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Running in the snow
Group photo
Everyone loved being outside in the snow
Snow angels
‘Look its ice’
Making friends laugh
Having fun with friends
Say cheese
Running round.
They were all so excited to be having snack in the polytunnel
Everyone was so hungry after being outside
Enjoying snack in the polytunnel

The children were so excited to see snow this morning. We spent the morning out at the multicourt playing in the snow. Some of the children enjoying making the snow into snowballs. Other children enjoyed making snow angels too. We enjoyed following the lines of different shapes and making our friends laugh too.

We then went into the polytunnel to have some snack in there. Everyone was so hungry after playing in the snow.

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Eco Class of the week.

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The finished product, they were all so proud of it.
Making our eco badge

Taking our time to create the badge and  doing it carefully.

The nursery and p6/7 won Eco Class of the week. We have been having daily checks by our eco committee to make sure our lights in the nursery have been switched off when we are not in the room. The paper also needs to be recycled properly in the recycling box and not in the bin. The committee has also been checking to make sure we have unplugged technology that we are not using.

We were then given the task to create a badge for the door to display for winning. The children have worked so hard on the badge and are very proud of the outcome.

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Out for a walk

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Group photo!
Being sensible and responsible, standing on the grass to let cars pass. We enjoyed waving to them
Even Santa enjoyed playing too.

            

Watching the sheep be released into the fields

We enjoyed taking a walk up Stromfirth Road today. The children done so well at standing in a line and following the people in front of them. Everyone done good listening and followed the instructions well when cars were passing by.

The children enjoyed watching the sheep be released into the fields and watching them run away. The children enjoyed running on the grass and saying ‘hello’ to a few nursery children who weren’t feeling well and were staying at home.