Thank you to everyone for your milk carton contributions. Our igloo is now finished. Please have a look at our journey.
Category: Our Learning
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!
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.
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.
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.
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.
Limelight Finale
The morning class have enjoyed the 12 week Limelight Music programme developing their listening, rhythm and story to music skills. We have seen every child develop their confidence in new situations and found their voice to sing, speak out and perform.
The parents and carers joined us for the grand finale becoming active participants themselves.
Our Autumn Learning
Please have a look at our exciting Autumn Learning.
Finding the Garden Veg- How our learning has evolved
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!
Fairtrade Fortnight
Over the next two weeks the children will be investigating and learning about Fairtrade. Children will be bringing home the Fairtrade logo from nursery and are being encouraged to see if they can find any Fairtrade products at home. We would be very grateful if children could bring in any labeling or empty packaging that displays the Fairtrade logo from home. We will be recycling labeling and packages, to use on our Fairtrade investigation table.
The Children will be listening to stories, playing games and will be involved in lots of discussions about Fairtrade.
If you would like to learn about fairtrade, follow the informative link below or why not ask the nursery staff to share our learning with you.
Chinese New Year
The Nursery will be celebrating Chinese New Year all week with stories, discussions and taster snack sessions.
Please follow the links listed to explore and learn more about Chinese New Year!
Chinese New Year (Short video)
A story about Chinese New Year
