Our Learning Week Ending 7th September 2018

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.

 

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 beginning 22nd January 2018

Wow, what a fantastic week we have had learning about our Scottish culture and heritage.

Our Scottish themed snacks have had such a variety of flavours, some of which we like and some we really don’t like!  We have tasted Porridge, home made Scotch Broth, Cranachan, Oatcakes and Cheese and of course, Haggis Neeps and Tatties.

 

 

We have also enjoyed listening to Scottish Country Dance Music as well as the Pipes and Drums.  We watched videos of highland dancers and tried of copy some of their moves.  Mrs Olford, Miss Nelson and Mrs Prentice also taught us steps used in familiar Scottish Country Dances.  We have uploaded some of the videos to our Learner Journals.

We have also been practicing our favourite Scottish songs.  Can you guess which one this is?

Next week during Stay, Learn and Play we will practice our songs further with our carers as well as continue learning rhymes and identify the rhyming words.

 

 

 

The Christmas Story

What a fabulous week of learning we have had!

Thank you to everyone for supporting your child and their performance in the retelling of The Christmas Story.  Weren’t they wonderful!!!

We hope you have enjoyed the festivities this week.

 

We wish you all a very Merry Christmas and a Prosperous New Year.

We will see you back, ready to play and learn on Tuesday 9th January 2018.

 

 

Our Learning week ending 8th December

Oh my, what a magical week we have had!

On Thursday 30th November, Holly and Olly the Christmas Kindness Elves landed in our playroom with their little house, the story of their life and an abundance of glitter everywhere!

Since then, each day, we have received a different book to celebrate our countdown to Christmas.

We have loved opening the presents and listening to the stories we have received.

 

In addition to our new books we have had a daily suggestion of how we can spread a little kindness to our friends.

We have been passing a smile to friends

Using our manners and being polite….

and writing thank you cards and letters to those who help us.

We can’t wait to see what next week brings.

If you would like to have a look at all our learning with Holly and Olly you can find our storybook next to our Learning Wall in the large playroom.

 

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.

http://vimeo.com/244320839

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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!

 

 

Big Bedtime Read

We had  a fabulous day at our Big Bedtime Read Launch Party.  Our playroom was transformed into a gathering of our favourite story characters as we dressed up as Fairytale Princesses, Three Little Pigs, Three Bears, Big Bad Wolves, Hungry Caterpillars, Bad Tempered Ladybirds, Rainbow Fish and Highway Rat’s to name a few.  We read books, listened to stories, sang songs drank hot chocolate and finished by leaving with our fabulous Bedtime Story Book Bags.

We can’t wait to read our stories, bring our books back and get a new bag next week!

Our Learning week ending 3rd November 2017

This week we have continued our learning about Autumn. Following on from the interest in the book “Pumpkin Soup” by Helen Cooper last week we chose to make our very own pumpkin soup . This gave us the opportunity to investigate pumpkins in more detail . We have discovered that pumpkins have skin, flesh and seeds. We chopped the flesh to use in our soup which we all had the opportunity of tasting at group time. Although some of us were reluctant to taste our soup, with some encouragement, many of us enjoyed it so much we asked for a second helping !

We enjoyed the sensory experience of putting our hands into the pumpkins and pulling the seeds out . We used descriptive words when engaging in this activity including “slimy, wet and cold”. When asked what could be done with the seeds Ava suggested planting them to make more pumpkins and Aaron thought we could use them to make pictures at the glue table. Mrs Olford suggested toasting them so we could eat them. There was a mixture of opinions on whether the children liked the toasted seeds or not. Some voted with a thumbs up to indicate they enjoyed them, some with horizontal thumbs to indicate they thought they were ok, and some thumbs downs as they didn’t enjoy them.

  

We have been learning about autumn festivals this week starting with Halloween. Some of us chose to dress up in scary costumes while others chose favorite story and film characters.

We explored goo and slime. Some of us were reluctant to use our hands, instead using tweezers to lift spiders and insects out of the containers.

We used our mark making and fine motor skills to draw pumpkins in trays of semolina.

We dooked for apples in our groups using several techniques including putting our faces in to the water and biting the apples.

 

We continued with Autumn festivals by observing fireworks on the smart board to link with Guy Fawkes. We also listened to government publication  “Frances the Firefly” to help introduce us to the dangers of fire.

 

Next week we will be learning more about fire safety and if it doesn’t rain  we hope to have a practical experience out in the garden.

 

 

Our Learning week ending 27th October 2017

This week we have continued with our learning about Autumn. A display of pumpkins and squashes was created alongside the book  “Pumpkin Soup” by Helen Cooper.  This stimulated the childrens interest which resulted in a sensory exploration of  the different pumpkins.  The children noticed the similarities and differences and this led to lots of discussion about size, weight, colour and texture. Lucy, Alexandra and Millie worked together ordering the pumpkins from “the tiny one” to the “huge peachy coloured one”.

The Pumpkin Soup story was a popular choice by all and was read by an adult in small group as as well as looked at independtly by the children.   Many discussions were held about the characters, analysing their friendship and in particular what makes a good friend.

Recalling learning from last year Darcey rememberd tasting the pumpkin pie that we made last Autumn.  However Ethan stated ” I like pumpkin soup”  so after much discussion it has been decided that we will be making our own pumpkin soup in Nursery next week.

Alexandra brought in felt bat shapes from home that her mummy had made. She decided that she wanted to decorate the den with them.  Alexandra wanted them to fly and after collaborative discussion it was decided that the bats needed to be attached to wool. After counting the bats to work out how many pieces of wool would be needed a Alexandra and her friends worked together to measure and cut the wool to an appropriate length before hanging the in the den.

We added numbers 1-5 onto bats to create a number line. The children have been identifying and ordering the numerals and are using them as props for the”5 little bats” number rhyme.

Copies of the number rhyme are available on our Learning Gallery wall in the cloakroom.

 

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