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Our Learning Week Ending 14th September 2018
This week the children continue to harvest apples from our nursery garden. some of the girls went on an Apple Walk with Mrs McNee to collect apples in preparation for washing, chopping, tasting and using them for baking activities throughout our the week in nursery.
Following this our walk, we stewed the apples to have for snack which we then tasted and thought were delicious with custard!
The children were very excited when Oliver brought in plums from his very own plum tree at home. We decided to wash and prepare Oliver’s plums to have along with our snack and use the remaining plums for a baking activity, where we worked together to make Apple and Plum Crumble.
Together we enjoyed the challenge of following the recipe, measuring out ingredients and chopping the apples and plums. We then enjoyed tasting our plum and apple crumble at group time.
To celebrate Maths Week Scotland we took part in a variety of different activities to develop our numerical and mathematical knowledge.
We plan to share our learning with our parents and carers at our next Stay, Learn and Play session.
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 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.
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!
Our Learning week ending 29th September 2017
This week we have continued with our learning about Autumn
We have been investigating trees and learning to name different parts of the tree. Â We have been looking at the different leaves and seeds that have fallen from trees. Â The conker shells are very spikey and jaggy but inside the shells are soft and smooth but the conker is hard and smooth. Â Ava decided that the Sycamore seeds are just like fidget spinners!
The apples have also fallen from the apple tree in our garden.
We have been gathering the fallen apples and picking others to cook and taste. Â We used our fine motor skills to manipulate the knives and chop the apples before cooking them into tasty stewed apples.
We have many more apples on our tree so next week we will be trying different apples recipes.
Our Learning week ending 8th September 2017
What another fabulous week of learning we have had this week.
We have continued to search our vegetable patch and have found more potatoes, carrots and onions ready to be harvested.
Once dug out of the ground we have washed, peeled and chopped the vegetables to try at snack time. Â They are definitely tastier that shop bought vegetables!
We are now on Pumpkin Patch Watch. Â The buds have blossomed and we are now waiting for them to wilt back and allow the fruits to grow. Â Next week we will start to use our measuring skills to measure the growth of the pumpkins. Â Hopefully we get a few to carve at Halloween.
We are excited to be celebrating Scottish Maths Week next week. Â Parents and carers are invited to come along to our Number Roadshow on Thursday 14th September 10.30am – 1pm to find out how to support and develop early number learning at home and in the community.
Worms
When we were digging in our Mud Kitchen we found lots of big juicy worms. Mrs McNee explained that worms are good for the soil as they “break it all up”.
We didn’t understand what she was saying so we invited the Local Authority Waste Management Department to bring their wormery to the nursery to show us. Joanna from Waste Management, explained that a wormery had a kitchen, a livingroom and a bathroom. The kitchen is on the top floor and we added chopped vegetables for the worms to eat. The livingroom is in the middle as this is where they bury themselves in the soil. The bathroom is on the bottom floor and they go there to cool down.
We learned that worms do not like to eat meat, crisps, sweets or animal poo!
We observed and cared for the worms for 1 week and now have a better understanding of how important they are to our soil.
