Knightsridge Early Years Centre
To foster Kindness, and Encouragement ensuring all Young learners achievements are Celebrated
We have been noticing the changes that are happening in the environment around us. The leaves are starting to fall off the trees and change colour, the weather has changed also and we have noticed it becoming a bit windy! We have also started to harvest the potatoes that we have grown in our garden.
Please take a look at our learning from the last Two Weeks! We have been finding out about living in the Jungle and what creatures live under the Sea!
We had “newbies” join our nursery family in April. This sparked unwavering interest and learning in the minibeasts that could be found around our garden.
Have a look at our learning below.
Our "newbies" joined our nursery family today @KnightsridgeEYC 🐛. We are all looking forward to watching them develop and grow as we learn about metamorphosis.🦋 #lifecycles #developingbiodiversity pic.twitter.com/ELL9m51P5m
— Gillian Olford (@GillianOlford) April 19, 2021
We are delighted to have been awarded our 3rd Green Flag from Eco Schools Scotland. This award is a real recognition of the important work and learning that has been happening across the Early Years Centre and how our youngest learners are developing as responsible citizens within society.
Our youngest learners priority this term has to clean up our community.
Have a look at what we have been up to.
This week @KnightsridgeEYC our youngest learners priority has been to clean up our community. We have categorised the litter we have found and discussed what will happen if we don’t bin it and what we can do to help our environment. #litter #reducereuserecyle ♻️@EcoSchoolsScot pic.twitter.com/EO4pRvwYlu
— Gillian Olford (@GillianOlford) April 30, 2021
Are you taking part in the RSPB Big Garden Birdwatch 2021?
If not have a look at how you can take part.
Remember to share you learning with us by uploading a photograph to your Learners Journal.
The boys in and girls in the Rainbow Hub last week enjoyed listening to caterpillar stories and we also learned Mrs Olford’s caterpillar song. We are looking forward to learning the actions this week.
Drag, Drop Sway!
Continuing with our new life learning, have a look at our Metamorphosis SWAY.
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.
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.
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