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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!

Our Learning week ending 24th November 2017

We have continued with our Road Safety Learning this week and have been out and about in our community practicing our road safety skills.

We noticed a variety of different shaped signs that had letters, numbers and pictures on them  and we learned that all forms of print can provide us with information regardless of whether it is letters, numbers or pictures.

We walked to our local Zebra Crossing and continued to practiced the safe crossing skills that be began to develop last week.

 

We have also be learning Ziggy’s Safety Song.  Singing this song has helped us remember the things we need to do to keep safe whilst crossing the road.

Please have a look at our performance.

We received a gift from Ziggy of a special road book which will allow us to continue our learning at home with our carers.

 

Next week we will be celebrating Book Week Scotland and are looking forward to our Stay, Learn and Read with our carers as well as having the opportunity to go to the Play Talk Read Bus which is visiting our community on Wednesday 29th November.

 

 

 

 

Our Learning week ending 17th November 2017

Our Learning Week Ending 17th November 2017

This week our learning of fire safety and stranger danger has extended into Road Safety.  Whilst playing outside with the bikes and cars we have been practicing stopping at the Zebra crossing and allowing the pedestrians to cross safely.

We had lots of discussion about different road signs and what they mean.  We have learned that all print has meaning and we have been practicing “reading” pictures to gain information.

Next week is Road Safety week and we will be going out and about in our community practicing our Road Safety skills.

We have been hard at work learning Ziggy’s Road Safety Song and next week we hope to record our rendition for you to hear.  Watch this space for our video!

 

 

Our Learning week ending 29th September 2017

This week we have continued with our learning about Autumn

We have been investigating trees and learning to name different parts of the tree.  We have been looking at the different leaves and seeds that have fallen from trees.  The conker shells are very spikey and jaggy but inside the shells are soft and smooth but the conker is hard and smooth.  Ava decided that the Sycamore seeds are just like fidget spinners!

The apples have also fallen from the apple tree in our garden.

We have been gathering the fallen apples and picking others to cook and taste.  We used our fine motor skills to manipulate the knives and chop the apples before cooking them into tasty stewed apples.

We have many more apples on our tree so next week we will be trying different apples recipes.

 

 

Our Learning week ending 8th September 2017

What another fabulous week of learning we have had this week.

We have continued to search our vegetable patch and have found more potatoes, carrots and onions ready to be harvested.

Once dug out of the ground we have washed, peeled and chopped the vegetables to try at snack time.  They are definitely tastier that shop bought vegetables!

 

We are now on Pumpkin Patch Watch.  The buds have blossomed and we are now waiting for them to wilt back and allow the fruits to grow.  Next week we will start to use our measuring skills to measure the growth of the pumpkins.  Hopefully we get a few to carve at Halloween.

We are excited to be celebrating Scottish Maths Week next week.  Parents and carers are invited to come along to our Number Roadshow on Thursday 14th September 10.30am – 1pm to find out how to support and develop early number learning at home and in the community.

Minibeasts

Today we have observed the children trying to find Minibeasts in the garden.  The children have been using magnifying glasses to help us find them and Mrs McNee created a fantastic worksheet with photographs of the many different Minibeasts we can discover in our garden. We aim to extend our learning about these very small creatures further as we learn the names of the Minibeast and discover more about what they look like.

Follow this fantastic link and learn more about Minibeasts at home!

Mini-beasts

Minibeasts

Creative Recycling

The All Stars and the 2 year old children had a fantastic time making Ba Ba Black Sheep and Humpty Dumpty. We started by sorting through the recycled bottle lids which we used to make a sheep. We got lots of glue and stuck the bottle lids on to the shape of a sheep. We then tore and scrunched up crepe paper and put it on to the sheep’s face with bottle lids to make eyes. It took a long time to dry but the results are great.  We then made Humpty Dumpty using lots of kinds of material. We chose different coloured patches and wool and stuck them on using lots and lots of glue to make sure they didn’t fall off. We then filled Humpty Dumpty up with bubble wrap and fixed it on to the wall.

What could you create at home, using recycled materials?

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