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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, 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
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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.

Health and Wellbeing

Outdoor Explorers

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We all like to go on adventures in the community beyond the school grounds if we get a chance. Last week we went on a walk in the Stromfirth road and went off-road to see what we could find. The bairns were very excited when they found a rabbit burrow and enjoyed listening to the sound of the ‘waterfall’. The looked up close at the tiny heather blooms and took turns of clambering on a big rock ‘horse’.  Stones were upturned in the successful hunt for bugs, and there was plenty excitement and future plans to return, with the hope to see if the rabbit is at home on the next visit.

This week we had a walk to the beach at the Taing which was the first time the new starts had been there with the Whiteness ELC. Collecting sea glass and throwing pebbles into the sea were the favourite activities. We saw a Shetland bumble bee on a purple flower on the verge and heard more trickling water noises in the ditches.

Listening to the waterfall
Keeping Safe
Searching for sea glass
Looking for the rabbit in his burrow
The ‘Waterfall’
Heather blossoms
Riding on the stone horse
Throwing pebbles into the sea
Searching for treasure at the beach

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Staff reinforce road safety rules as we go along and all the bairns paid attention and listened well.

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Caterpillars

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We have enjoyed learning about caterpillars this week at nursery. The children have enjoyed watching our own caterpillars grow and get bigger, they are very excited for when they turn into butterflies. We have been making a big caterpillar for the wall display this week. The children enjoyed cutting, sticking and colouring in a circle to make the caterpillar bigger. Some of the children enjoyed the playdough and making caterpillars with it and some enjoyed copying different kinds of butterflies from the ipad and drawing them. They all done so well and took their time 🙂

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Special visitors

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We had a special visit yesterday in the nursery! One of the children released a creel with their uncle at the weekend. They were very excited to come and show everyone at nursery what had been caught. The children were excited to see some crabs, hermit crab and a star fish!!! Thanks for bringing these in to show us before releasing them back into the sea!