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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, 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!

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

 

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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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.