Inveralmond Early Years Centre and Ladywell Nursery School

Storytime and rhyme time

Week beginning May 23rd

Our Wordboost story for the week beginning May 23rd is

Salty and Button by Angela McAllister

The boost words are

adventure

rough

peer

enormous

Nursery Wordboost Books 1-5

The focus of Nursery Wordboost is on vocabulary development which supports all aspects of literacy; reading, writing talking and listening.

Go to this Sway

You can find the definitions to the words on our SWAY if you are looking for some child friendly ones.

Try to use the words as often as you can throughout the week so they become part of every day chat.

Rhyme time

Children in Ladywell Nursery were very intrigued to see our broken bench mended by the joiner who came to the nursery. We observed from the window and discussed the tools he was using and watched in amazement as he made a new bench. We spoke about being safe with tools and only adults should use these types of tools. Once the joiner had finished the children went out into the garden to inspect the new bench and were very happy with it. We provided the children with pretend tools so they could role play what they had seen. We then recorded this in our outside floor book.

Children in Ladywell Nursery showed great excitement with the new Finger Gym activity today! Children demonstrated very good fine motor skills as they carefully placed the correct amount of flowers onto the straw. Helping to develop number recognition 1-10, one to one correspondence, and counting skills. The children engaged well in this activity and demonstrated good turn-taking skills.

Ladywell Nursery children getting creative. We are learning to explore different ways to express our thoughts and feelings through drawings, paintings or printing.

Ladywell Nursery children have been using technology in their play. The children were excited to explore the beebots on the tuff spot.  We decided to draw a map of a road for the beebot to travel around. The children decided they wanted to add shops and houses to their map. Each child demonstrated good listening and turn-taking skills. The children were learning to develop their problem solving skills and the skill to programme the beebot to go forward, backwards, left and right. Everyone was able to follow instructions successfully and demonstrated a good understanding of mathematical language.

Children in Ladywell nursery have been exploring the garden. At times the weather has been very wet and the children have enjoyed splashing in the big puddle. Some children explored the potion table. Using the different sizes of churns. Filling them with water, mud and leaves before pouring each one into the basin to mix their spells. Great descriptive language used to describe what was going into their potions.

Mud was a fun and interesting material for the children to explore. The boys happily sat in the mud with jugs and pots and poured the running mud into them. Describing how it plopped into the bowls as they carefully transferred the mud from one jug into a pot and back again.

We learned how to use our bodies to climb over the stepping stones, peddle the bike while developing our large gross motor skills and balance.

Children in Ladywell Nursery have been learning how to make vegetable soup. They have been developing their fine motor skills while using a knife to cut the different vegetables ready to go in the pot. We used our senses to explore the different textures and smells of the vegetables. The children demonstrated a good understanding of being safe with the knives and participated well in using their listening and talking skills during discussions. The children were then able to enjoy their nursery made soup for snack. Yummy!

Storytime and rhyme of the week

It is revision week of weeks 1 and 2 of Nursery Wordboost.

Please scroll down through the blog to find the links to the two stories and the boost words with their definitions.

We have created a SWAY with the first five books of the nursery Wordboost programme with the boost words and their definitions. It is now available either through the QR code displayed at the nursery, by following the link below or the one sent in a group call.

Nursery Wordboost Books 1-5

The focus of Nursery Wordboost is on vocabulary development which supports all aspects of literacy; reading, writing talking and listening.

Go to this Sway

Our rhyme focus is:

I Have Ten Little Fingers

Story and rhyme time

Nursery Wordboost

Sylvia and Bird by Catherine Rayner

Boost words: gaze  lonely  search  tumble

Child friendly definitions:

gaze– gaze is looking at something nice or interesting for a long time

lonely-lonely is feeling sad because you are on your own

search-searching is when you try hard to find something and you look in lots of places.

tumble-when you tumble you fall and roll over

One way to support the boost words is:

Use the Tweeny song below but substitute the boost word into it as you perform the action.

e.g. Everybody searching, searching, searching.

Everybody searching just like me

Rhyme time

Hickory Dickory Dock

The children in Inveralmond EYC have spent a lot of time outside this week enjoying the better weather.  Played hopscotch, used soft play equipment to build assault courses and made their own campfire and campsites.  Lots of discussions and negotiating amongst the children to allow them to play together.