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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 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 beginning 22nd January 2018
Wow, what a fantastic week we have had learning about our Scottish culture and heritage.
Our Scottish themed snacks have had such a variety of flavours, some of which we like and some we really don’t like! We have tasted Porridge, home made Scotch Broth, Cranachan, Oatcakes and Cheese and of course, Haggis Neeps and Tatties.
We have also enjoyed listening to Scottish Country Dance Music as well as the Pipes and Drums. We watched videos of highland dancers and tried of copy some of their moves. Mrs Olford, Miss Nelson and Mrs Prentice also taught us steps used in familiar Scottish Country Dances. We have uploaded some of the videos to our Learner Journals.
We have also been practicing our favourite Scottish songs. Can you guess which one this is?
Next week during Stay, Learn and Play we will practice our songs further with our carers as well as continue learning rhymes and identify the rhyming words.
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 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.
Fairtrade Fortnight
We have been learning about Fairtrade and Foncho the Fairtrade Banana Farmer and can now recognise Fairtrade products by the symbol on them.
We ate Bananas all week at snack. Banana Smoothies, Banana Sandwiches and homemade Banana Cake it was delicious.
We decided to have a Fairtrade Coffee Morning and made our own posters to advertise our event.
On the day we helped to serve our parents and carers tea, coffee and cake and retold them the story of Foncho.
We celebrated our learning at the primary school assembly last Friday morning by telling the boys and girls of Foncho the Banana Farmer.
