Drag, Drop Sway!
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Tag: Expressive Arts
Spring Chickens
Drag, Drop, SWAY!
We had new additions to our Knightsridge Early Years Centre family in April. Check out our fabulous learning experience.
All Things Scottish
Drag, Drop, SWAY!
Have a look at our learning where we find out more about All Things Scottish and the customs of the country we live in.
Our Learning Week Ending 27th January 2017
Wit ‘a guid week we’ve had!
We’ve read a selection of Scottish themed stories and used our recall and sequencing skills to retell the story “There was a Wee Lassie who swallowed a Midgie”. Â Some of our favourites also included The Grouse and the Mouse and Can’t-Dance-Cameron.
We increased our vocabulary learning lots of new words such as semmit, breeks, saltire, thistles, tartan, and kilts and used our observational skills to create artisitc examples of Saltires and Thistles.
On Wednesday we celebrated with a Burns Supper.  We all tried the new foods and thoroughly enjoyed the social setting of eating together. Some of us enjoyed the haggis, neeps and tatties followed by shortbread however some of us just enjoyed the shortbread!
We listened to the bagpipes and drums and danced to traditional scottish ceildh music.
We finished our week of celebrating with a Scottish Sing-A-Long with our parents and carers.
Thank you to all who came along.
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.
January
Last month our learning focused on developing our story telling and rhyme reciting skills during our Story, Rhyme and Song time. We have been listening to traditional tales such as The 3 Little Pigs, Goldilocks and the 3 Bears and The Gingerbread Man and have participated in retelling the story using role-play costumes and puppets. We have been learning and reciting different nursery rhymes and songs including Old MacDonald, Hey Diddle Diddle and the Row, Row, Row your Boat.
During our Scottish Week focus we learned many different Scottish words to describe our clothing, including our semmit, breeks and bunnet and used our art and craft skills to design our own tartan kilts. We held our very own Burns Supper where we tasted Haggis, Neeps and Tatties and entertained our parents and carers with an impromptu Scottish Singalong with songs including Wee Willie Winkie, Yi Cannae Shove Yir Grannie, and the children’s favourite, The Midge.
Home-Link activity sheets and booklets supporting the children’s learning in Nursery Rhymes, Traditional Tales and Scottish Songs are available in the cloakroom.
Group Time activities take place at 9.30am and 1pm where the children engage in key learning opportunities to develop their listening and talking skills through sound matching and rhythm games or activities such as cutting, drawing, throwing and catching to develop their gross and fine motor skills.
A small snack is served mid-session. We have introduced an opportunity for the children to practice their fine motor skills using a knife and fork as well as offering tasting sessions for the children to try different foods.
We have also been learning to cook and have really enjoyed making our own Krispie cakes.
Road Safety
We had fun making lollypop STOP sticks and we learned that the road crossing patrol help us to cross the road and they stop traffic so we can cross the road safely. We were also busy making red, amber and green traffic lights which also help us to keep safe on the roads. Some of the children dressed up in bright clothing which helps the cars to see us when we are out walking especially at night. We also read some lovely stories about Ziggy the Alien which helped us to understand about keeping safe on the roads.
Autumn
We have been learning all about Autumn. We have been talking about the change in the weather and how all the leaves are now turning red, green, orange and brown and falling from the trees. The children even made an autumn tree with their painted footprints which was very messy and lots of fun. The children have been making Autumn pictures with glue and tissue paper. They have enjoyed going on a walk and collecting lots of leaves which they had great fun playing with in the garden. The children have also been exploring conkers in a large tray using scoops and tongs to help improve fine motor skills. Some of the parents and children made scarecrows at home as Sam our scarecrow was feeling lonely. The results were fantastic and well done to everyone took part and made our Sam very happy.
Number, Shape and Colour
Recently in nursery the children have been exploring and learning about numbers, colours and shapes. We have been cutting squares, triangles, circles and rectangles in the playdough and talking about the different colours of the shapes. We have been playing with shape and coloured jigsaws. Some of the children went on a shape walk where they looked for different 3D shapes around our centre which they then turned into a lovely disolay. We have been making pictures using different shapes and painting nunbers. We have also made a lovely number display and a very popular coloured Elmer display. We are encouragong counting through simple number songs and rhymes.
Sunflower Competition
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.
