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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.

 

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
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.

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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.