Knightsridge Early Years Centre
To foster Kindness, and Encouragement ensuring all Young learners achievements are Celebrated
We are absolutely delighted that our tiny little caterpillers have now turned into Painted Lady Butterflies. The children have really enjoyed and learned alot from this experience. We couldn’t keep them long so on Thursday 30th May we let them free and they flew away into the community.
Rural connect in association with Dobbies Garden Centre have challenged West Lothian Schools to grow the largest sunflower
The story so far…
A group of pupils from Broxburn Academy planted over 200 Russian Giant sunflower seeds in the glass houses at SRUC Oatridge in January. Over the following months they had the responsibility to care for them and ensure they were in great condition to be handed out to competing schools in April.
We are taking up the challenge and now have the responsibility to look after and grow our sunflower. We have made a display in the nursery entrance area to monitor the growth of our sunflower and at the moment it is measuring 99cm. There will be a prize for the tallest sunflower so wish us luck!
The children will be learning what a sunflower requires to grow successfully and learn how to care for it themselves.
The children have been learning all about plants. We are learning the names of the plant parts and that they need water and sunshine to grow. The children have enjoyed planting beans and sunflowers. They have also grown cress and made a funny head from tights, compost and cress seeds and it grew hair!
Our caterpillers are now in the butterfly net. We are watching them everyday. We have put sugared water and fresh oranges in the bottom of the net so they have food to eat when they emerge from their cocoons.
The children have recently been enjoying looking at their Learner’s Journey. These are where we record information and put photographs of the children’s experiences and learning during their time in nursery. We also encourage the children and parents to contribute to this by bringing in achievements and learning from outside of nursery.
We are all very excited about the progress of our caterpillars. They have eaten lots and lots of their food and have grown very big. They have now turned into chrysalises.
The East Knightsridge Residents Association recently ran an Easter egg colouring competion for all the children our nursery. P.C John Gray was asked to pick the winning pictures which were Kuba Oleszek in the morning session and Nadia Zdunska in the afternoon session. Well Done.
We are learning about lifecycles. We have been making frogs with the play dough and have been making caterpillars. We have made frog puppets where we were learning how to use scissors. The children have also been listening to and enjoying the story of The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle. We are very excited as our caterpillars have arrived and we are going to closely monitor them as they grow and turn into butterflies.
Our nursery and the primary school raised a great £300.00 to donate to the rebuilding of the reptile house at the zoo. Well done everyone and thankyou very much for your kind donations.
We have been learning about Spring and Easter. We painted lovely spring flowers and made them into a display. We have made pictures with our fingerprints which are on display in the nursery entrance. We have been learning about the Easter story at small group time and have made Easter cards and decorated easter pictures. As a treat we had Hot Cross Buns for snack. The children have enjoyed reading Easter stories and had fun with the interactive Easter display. Below is a link to the Easter Story we watched in nursery.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/lets-celebrate/stories/lets-celebrate-easterperformance/
Just a wee reminder that all children return to nursery on Monday 15th April
Happy Easter from all the staff at Knightsridge EYC
