Month: January 2017

Our Learning Week Ending 27th January 2017

Wit ‘a guid week we’ve had!

We’ve read a selection of Scottish themed stories and used our recall and sequencing skills to retell the story “There was a Wee Lassie who swallowed a Midgie”.  Some of our favourites also included The Grouse and the Mouse and Can’t-Dance-Cameron.

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We increased our vocabulary learning lots of new words such as semmit, breeks, saltire, thistles, tartan, and kilts and used our observational skills to create artisitc examples of Saltires and Thistles.

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On Wednesday we celebrated with a Burns Supper.  We all tried the new foods and thoroughly enjoyed the social setting of eating together. Some of us enjoyed the haggis, neeps and tatties followed by shortbread however some of us just enjoyed the shortbread!

We listened to the bagpipes and drums and danced to traditional scottish ceildh music.

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We finished our week of celebrating with a Scottish Sing-A-Long with our parents and carers.

Thank you to all who came along.

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Developing Creativity Through Loose Parts Play

Have you seen how creative we can be through Loose Parts Play?

We know that children are creative and innovative and Loose Parts Play can provide opportunities for them to explore, design, plan and build in multiple open-ended ways.

The materials used can be both natural and synthetic and can be moved, rotated, stacked, sorted, combined, taken apart and re-assembled without a prescribed plan.

It provides opportunities for children to explore their own creativity, innovation, problem solving and critical thinking.  It promotes independent learning and opportunities to represent learning in a variety of ways.

Have a look at what we’ve been doing so far and come in and join us during Stay, Learn and Play in January to develop your own creativity!

"It's a happy face with eyes and mouth" - Lexi 12/1/17
“It’s a happy face with eyes and mouth” – Lexi 12/1/17
"An alien girl. She has sooky eyes and eggs" Olivia 12/1/17
“An alien girl. She has sooky eyes and eggs” – Olivia 12/1/17
"I've made a reindeer. A smile, a nose and two eye" - Ella 12/1/17
“I’ve made a reindeer. A smile, a nose and two eyes” – Ella 12/1/17
"My mum with a necklace" - Poppie 12/1/17
“My mum with a necklace” – Poppie 12/1/17

Our Learning – Week Ending 13th January 2017

Week Ending 13th January 2017

What a fabulous week we have had for continuing our Winter learning!

With the first flurries of snow and freezing temperatures, our garden turned into a magical land of sound as we heard crunching and crackling underfoot and the dripping of snow as it melted into water.  We used our booted feet, wheelie toys and even our bodies to create patterns and shapes in the snow.

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All too soon the sun came out and the snow began to disappear.  We watched the BBC Reporting Scotland weather report for information, trying hard to read the pictures to tell us if more snow was on it’s way.  We could see the snow, rain and wind moving across Scotland as the Meteorologist told us to take care.

We continued to learn about hibernation and we added new words to our vocabulary; freezing, melting, Artic and Meteorologist.

 Next Week we will be continuing to increase or knowledge and use of Winter vocabulary as well as investigate different ways to melt snow and ice.

Following on from looking at Scotland on the map we will continue to find out more about the country we live in and it’s traditions, starting with some familiar songs.

Our Learning – Week Ending 5th January 2017

Happy New Year!  Welcome back to a new term, filled with exciting learning opportunities.  Jack Frost has been out and about dancing down our street and turning our garden all white.  We weren’t really sure how frost was made so we decided to investigate using our magnifing lens.  We saw “fingers of frost” on the grass, the toys and the garden furniture.  Our Mud Kitchen pots and pans were filled with ice which was very cold, wet, hard, and slippery.

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We also used our cutting skills to create Snowflakes and have added them to our window displays

Our Winter Igloo is starting to take shape and we have been working hard to prepare the “bricks” and build 3 layers of wall.  We still need lots more empty clean milk cartons to add more walls and then a roof.

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Through our stories and songs this week we identified 2 new and unknown words.  We will be continuing to learn what Hibernation is and what a Snowdrop is next week.

Please ask your child to give you a rendition of our new winter songs we have been learning this week; Jack Frost and Put Your Coat On!

Santa left us new books under our Christmas Tree and we will be adding them to our Lending Library for it reopening on Monday.  The Lending Library will reopen on Monday with the Green Group, Tuesday for the Yellow Group, Wednesday for the Red Group and Thursday for the Blue Group.

Next Week we will be continuing to increase or knowledge and use of Winter vocabulary as well as investigate the properties of ice and how it changes back into water.

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