Knightsridge Early Years Centre
To foster Kindness, and Encouragement ensuring all Young learners achievements are Celebrated
Recently in the nursery we were very lucky to have a visit from Zoolab. We were learning about nocturnal animals and how they like to come out at night time. Ian brought us along a rat, a snake, a tarantula, giant land snails and a tree frog. We learned what they like to eat and where they like to live. We all had the opportunity to look at and touch the animals and some of us were even brave enough to touch them!
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.
We are learning about lifecycles. We have been making frogs with the play dough and have been making caterpillars. We have made frog puppets where we were learning how to use scissors. The children have also been listening to and enjoying the story of The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle. We are very excited as our caterpillars have arrived and we are going to closely monitor them as they grow and turn into butterflies.
Our nursery and the primary school raised a great £300.00 to donate to the rebuilding of the reptile house at the zoo. Well done everyone and thankyou very much for your kind donations.
We have been learning about Scotland. We made tartan patterns, Scottish flags and kilts. We listened to a story about Robert Burns. To celebrate his birthday we had haggis, neeps and tatties for snack and we learned how to do Scottish dancing.
