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Drag, Drop, SWAY!
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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 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 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. 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 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.
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.
