Inveralmond Early Years Centre and Ladywell Nursery School

The children have had a lovely week this week at Ladywell Nursery School.  They did great taking part in our Christmas sing along; we hope you all enjoyed watching them.  At their party they enjoyed playing party games, dancing, a magician show and a visit to Santa’s grotto. Please take a look on your child’s learning journey to see a picture of them with Santa.

Nursery will return on Monday 6^th January 2020.

We would all like to say thank you for your continued support and we hope you have a lovely Christmas and New Year.

Have a safe Christmas, click on the link for some tips,

Santa’s top safety tips

BOX CLEVER

Week 3-action words on the theme of Christmas

wrap  decorate  open  pull  give  sleep  wake-up  make hang  fly

NURSERY WORDBOOST

Revision week

Henry’s Holiday by Gillian Shields

Boost Words:  exciting  smooth  firm  delicious

Salty and Button by Angela McAllister

Boost Words: adventure   peer  rough  enormous

Christmas Singalong

We would like to invite you to come and hear the children sing the Christmas Songs they have been learning at our Christmas Singalong.

This will take place on the following dates:

Ladywell Nursery School-Tuesday 17th December at

12.00pm and 2.30pm

Inveralmond Early Years Centre-Wednesday 18th December at

12.00pm and 2.30pm

Christmas Parties

Nursery session times will run as normal on the days of the Christmas parties. However, for those parents/carers who wish to bring their child along for the party only, the times are:

Thursday 19th December

9.30-11.45  and  1.15-3.30

We will have a magician at each party and are looking forward to a visit from Santa too!

Full day children who do not usually attend on a Thursday are welcome to join us for the afternoon party.

The last day of nursery is Thursday 19th December, returning on Monday 6th January.

This week in IEYC we have been getting prepared for Christmas.  We have been having lots of fun learning Scottish Country dances, circle games and practising our Christmas songs.

We have recently received a new water tray which the children are thoroughly enjoying experimenting with.

There is still a lot of interest around ourselves, therefore we have been measuring and comparing our height and shoe size.  Some children have been hand and feet printing.

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The Child Accident Prevention Trust has provided information about how dangerous button batteries can be.There are posters in both nurseries showing where there might be batteries of this type in your home.

Button batteries, particularly big powerful lithium coin cell batteries, can badly hurt or kill a small child within two hours, if they get stuck in the food pipe. Know where yours are so you can keep your children safe.

The following video is also from the Child Accident Prevention Trust website, you may find it’s content upsetting.

It is not intended to be watched by/with children.

We’ve had a fabulous week at Ladywell Nursery School.  The children received a visit from West Lothian Council waste services team where they carried out different activities with the children.  One activity was looking at bean bags with a picture and word telling you what it was e.g. toothpaste. The children had to decide what colour of bin it went in and then post it in the bin. The children were also developing their fine motor skills when using the grabber to pick up the rubbish and recycle it into the coloured bins.  Well done boys and girls!

The children have enjoyed the experience of all the different Christmas activities on offer.  Christmas collages and  Christmas card making along with writing letters to Santa to tell him what they would like for Christmas.  The children also enjoyed walking to the post office to buy a stamp then walking to the post box to post their letter to the North Pole to tell Santa what they would like for Christmas.

9.12.19

Nursery WordBoost 

Boost words

adventure   enormous   peer   rough

Box clever

Week 2, describing words

red   green   silver    gold   shiny  big/small    cold/hot   dark/light   

top /bottom    excited

The Rhyme of the Week is displayed in the cloakroom.

Ladywell Nursery School

This week in Ladywell Nursery School some children took part with litter picking in the woods in our local community. Whilst they were picking up all of the litter we discussed the reasons why we were doing so and why it’s important to keep the community clean. At the end of the walk they watched a member of staff put the filled bag of litter into the main bin where they explained that the bin lorry and bin men/women will come to pick it up. The children are becoming more aware of the different jobs and roles people have in the wider community.

In the sensory room this week the children have enjoyed learning about light and dark which links to our current floorbook.  They were mark making with the coloured light up boards sharing their thoughts and feelings with others. They have also been investigating with the coloured magnetic blocks identifying different colours and learning how magnets stick together.  They are continuing to enjoy the experience of the black tent where they are using the torches to see and some children have asked for the light to be off in the room to further explore darkness.  Next week the children will be learning all about the moon and why there is a moon.  Children’s comments and photos will be added to floorbook.  If your child happens to share their learning at home with you in relation to light and dark please feel free to add a comment about this into the floorbook.

This week at the construction area the children having been using their imagination to create models through block play.  Staff are also encouraging children to risk assess their play when standing on the large wooden blocks to encourage them to think about whether or not it is safe or not safe. Well done boys and girls!

Box Clever

The theme for box clever for the next three weeks will be Christmas and displayed at both Inveralmond and Ladywell.

Week 1, naming words:

tree   Santa   beard   boots   chimney   present   tinsel   cards   sleigh    reindeer    sack    stocking    bells    elf     cracker

Nursery WordBoost

The book for this week is Henry’s Holiday by Gillian Shields and the boost words are:

delicious   exciting   firm    smooth