Thank you to everyone for your milk carton contributions. Our igloo is now finished. Please have a look at our journey.
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.
Celebrating Scottish Book Week with Storytelling
Come along and join us in the Nursery on Tuesday 22nd November at 10.50am or 12.15pm for our Parent and Child Storytelling Event to celebrate Scottish Book Week.
Our Autumn Learning
Please have a look at our exciting Autumn Learning.
PEEP at Knightsridge Early Years Centre
Looking to support your child with their learning in a fun filled PEEP group? Join us on the following days
Tuesday for PEEP 4s at 9.15am and 12.45pm
Wednesdays for PEEP 3s, at 12.45pm
Thursdays for Tweenie PEEP at 10.30am
Contact Mrs Olford and Mrs Marshall for more information.
October Break
We hope that you all have a wonderful October break and look forward to welcoming you all back on Tuesday 25th of October.
If you are looking for a free activity idea for the holidays, why not go on a Autumn scavenger hunt!
Follow the link below for some of the local woodlands we have in West Lothian:
West Lothian Walks
Follow the link to book your Parent Consultation
Parents’ Guide for Booking Appointments
Browse to https://knightsridgeprimary.parentseveningsystem.co.uk/
| Step 1: Login
Please fill out all the details on the page. A confirmation of your appointments will be emailed to you and we may use the phone number to contact you.
Please use your child’s “preferred” forename that matches our records (no abbreviations).
Date of birth – eg: 26/11/2005
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| Step 2: Select Parents’ Evening
Click the green tick to select the parents’ evening you want to make appointments for. |
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| Step 3: Choose Teachers
Your child’s teachers will appear. Ensure the teachers you wish to see are selected in green. If you do not wish to see a teacher, click on their name to de-select them. If you have another child to book into this parents’ evening, press the “Add another child” button, enter their details and then repeat this step.
Click on the Continue button to proceed. |
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| Step 4: Book Appointments
Click ‘Book’ to make your appointment with the teacher for the time you wish. Optionally enter a short note to the teacher to help structure the appointment. Repeat this for all the teachers you wish to see.
After you have finished making appointments, click on “click here” in the yellow box at the top of the page to send the confirmation email. |
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| Step 5: Finished
You will receive an email confirmation of your appointments. Please print this out and bring with you to the parents’ evening. To send the school feedback about this system, click on “Send Feedback”. |
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| Viewing/Editing/Printing Appointments
You can also view and print your appointments online by clicking the “Appointments” tab. Please bring a print out of your appointment times to the parents’ evening.
You can change your appointments by clicking on “Add/Edit/Delete Appointments”. There is a link at the bottom of the confirmation email which logs you back into the system. |
