Month: September 2018

Our Learning Week Ending 14th September 2018

This week the children continue to harvest apples from our nursery garden. some of the girls went on an Apple Walk with Mrs McNee to collect apples in preparation for washing, chopping, tasting and using them for baking activities throughout our the week in nursery.

Following this our walk,  we stewed the apples to have for snack which we then tasted and thought were delicious with custard!

The children were very excited when Oliver brought in plums from his very own plum tree at home. We decided to wash and prepare Oliver’s plums to have along with our snack and use the remaining plums for a baking activity, where we worked together to make Apple and Plum Crumble.

Together we enjoyed the challenge of following the recipe, measuring out ingredients and chopping the apples and plums. We then enjoyed tasting our plum and apple crumble at group time.

 

To celebrate Maths Week Scotland we took part in a variety of different activities to develop our numerical and mathematical knowledge.

 

We plan to share our learning with our parents and carers at our next  Stay, Learn and Play session.

 

Our Learning Week Ending 7th September 2018

The children have enjoyed many healthy learning experiences this week including exploring our healthy Greengrocers.  Whilst taking on the role of shop keeper and customer, the children had the opportunity to name and explore a variety of fruit and vegetables as well as sort them into categories of type, size, shape and colour.

Our potatoes came from the nursery garden and before they were transported to the shop the children were set the challenge of ordering the potatoes by size from biggest to smallest.

The children then helped to prepare the potatoes for a snack.  This included using our fine motor skills of washing, peeling and chopping the potatoes.

The children enjoyed tasting the yummy boiled potatoes that they had helped to prepare.

Our creative children then used the loose parts materials, the vegetables from the shop and the Box Clever Kitchen Utensils to work together to make their very own ‘Vegetable Soup’ in the water tray.

 

We were counting the number of ladles and spoons of soup we needed to fill and empty our pots, pans and cups.

Next week we are going to find other ways to count and improve our maths and numeracy skills whilst playing during Maths Week Scotland.

 

Our Learning Week Ending 31st August 2018

What a week of fabulous learning!

Neil from the Knightsridge Community Garden popped in to see us with some of the garden vegetables that had grown over the summer.

We then washed, peeled and chopped the vegetables before cooking them with lentils and stock to make a tasty soup for snack.

Later on in the week when we were outside digging in our own garden we started to find the potatoes we had planted earlier in spring.

As we hunted for more vegetables we noticed that the apples on our apple tree are beginning to get big enough that we should be able to pick them next week.

Our next step is to write a list of all the yummy recipes we can make with apples.

We are looking forward to next week’s learning!

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