Month: April 2020

Good Afternoon!

As you know we often play different games in Nursery that help us develop good listening skills.

Our Speech and Language Therapy partners have suggested games that you can play at home with your family.  My personal favourite is What Looks Different?

Why don’t you have a go, have fun and let me know if you enjoyed the games by sharing your learning on your Home Achievements in your Learners Journal.

Have fun!
Mrs Olford

Good Morning Everyone!

Our caterpillars have moved onto the next phase of their life-cycle.  Do you know what that phased is called?

I have moved them out of their feeding tubs and into the Butterfly Garden whilst we wait on them metamorphosing into butterflies.

As we have moved away from the caterpillar stage, today’s challenge is to create your own caterpillar in the form of a snack. You could use any of your favourite foods. Have a look at what Mrs Glidden, Mrs Woods, Mrs Prentice and even Miss Calder and Miss Muir from Primary 1 have used to make their snack.

Please share a photographs of your snack on the Home Learning Achievements section of your Learners Journal.

Have fun and enjoy your snack!
Mrs Olford

Our NHS Lothian Speech and Language Therapy partners have posted excellent home learning activities to support Phonological Awareness.

Our children in the Early Years Centre and beyond into Primary 1 and Primary 2, regularly clap syllables and sounds to help develop early speech, reading and writing skills.

Have a go and have fun trying for yourself.

You can follow NHS Lothian Children and Young People’s Speech and Language Therapy Service on Facebook @NHSLothian

Good Morning everyone

We talk about numbers all the time in Nursery whether we are singing counting songs, recognising dot patterns, hanging numerals on our washing line or counting objects but today’s challenge is to do something different.

Can you find objects and create a staircase number line?

Can you find enough objects to match the numeral and order them into a number line?

What number is after or before? What number has one more, or one less?

Have a look at the picture of my number line. I have only managed to get to 5 but can you go further to 10 or even 20?

Please share your learning with us on your online Learners Journal

Have fun

Mrs Olford

Good Morning Everyone, Happy Earth Day!

Did you know that today we celebrate the 50th Anniversary of Earth Day?  Have a look at the video below that will tell you more about what Earth Day is all about.

We already have lots of knowledge about how to look after our planet and when we are Nursery we are very good at recycling, looking after the birds and caring for our plants and garden.  Can you remember when we learned all about what happens to sea-life and creatures in the ocean when the oceans are polluted with plastic?

We can stop plastic from going to our oceans by recycling and reusing.

Your challenge today is to recycle and reuse a plastic bottle.  You can make a decoration, you can use it for something else or you can make a game or toy.

Have a look at what Mrs Glidden, Mrs Prentice and Mrs Olford have already made.  What can you make?

Please share your learning with us by uploading a photograph to your Learners Journal.

We have had a busy morning in the Rainbow Hub Nursery recycling our plastic bottles for Earth day to make our own musical shakers 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yl3zgcL0Tv8

Good Morning Everyone

Have you logged into your online Learners Journal today?

Mrs Olford has added a story for you to listen to and Mrs Glidden has set you a challenge.

Can you create a patterned caterpillar?  Can you create a pattern using different colours or shapes?

Please share your learning with us by uploading a picture to your online Learners Journal.