Drag, Drop Sway!
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Tag: Numeracy
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Drag, Drop, SWAY!
We had new additions to our Knightsridge Early Years Centre family in April. Check out our fabulous learning experience.
Maths and Numeracy Learning at KEYC
Check out some our everyday Maths and Numeracy Learning
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 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. Â 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. Â However Ethan stated ” I like pumpkin soup” Â 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. Â 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.
Our Learning Week Ending 15th September 2017
Week Ending 15th September 2017
This week we had a fabulous time celebrating numerical and mathematical learning. Â We all participated in a variety of play experiences that supported our learning both indoor and outdoors.
Our Number Roadshow on Thursday was a huge success and gave many parents and carers ideas on how to support number and mathematical learning both at home and out and about in the community.
Examples of our learning can be viewed in our SWAY. Please click on the link below
https://sway.com/Fxe3rYsAtotsD7MM?ref=Link
Next week we will be looking for signs of Autumn and changes in the seasons.
Scottish Maths Week
Come along to our
Number Roadshow
on
Thursday 14th September, 10.30am – 1pm
Discover different ways to support your child’s learning of number at home using everyday objects and experiences.
Nursery Garden
We have been busy weeding and planting in our nursery garden as we work towards gaining our green flag award.
We have also been learning about healthy eating in the nursery so we invited Willie Carruthers the community gardener along to show us how to plant properly and talk to us about different types of fruit and vegetables we can grow in our garden. We have at the moment planted strawberries, peas, potatoes, carrots and cabbage and we are looking after them and eagerly awaiting to see the first signs of growth.
The photographer from the West Lothian Courier came along and took our photograph and our picture appeared in the paper that week.
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.
