Our learning this week has been about people in our community who help us. We have had a visit from the local crossing patrol team and have been practicing how to cross the roads safely. Our Doctor’s surgery has been very busy with patients requiring bandages and lots of medicine, so we have been busy writing our own prescriptions. We are learning how we can get help in an emergency and have been putting out fires and riding in our fire engine. Next week we will have a visit from a local postman to find out how he helps our community.

We have some surprise little visitors coming to stay at Bathgate West Nursery for a few weeks. Our little hairy caterpillars are here and they already munching their way through their food. Check them out at the nursery entrance and see how quickly they grow before they begin their change into butterflies. We will be leaning about all the changes that will happen in the life cycle of a butterfly whilst we watch they change.

With our Eco Topic almost over, the children in the nursery have become Eco Warriors fighting pollution and waste in our nursery. They have been learning where our rubbish and recycling goes once it leaves the nursery and how to save our planet by recycling, reducing and reusing. Our Eco song has become a hit and reminds us of some of the ways we can help save our planet. In our garden we have been spotting and identifying a wide range of mini beasts and we have a chart to show which bugs and beasts we have seen in our garden. It’s been an busy and fun topic and we hope that some of the skills and knowledge the children have been learning can help them become responsible citizens.

Our Eco Group’s Rag Bag collection took place took today and a big Thank You to everyone who returned a filled bag for us.  We collected 143kg of donations with 38 bags full! The funds raised will help our Eco Group develop our nursery garden.

The Rag Bag collection has been a part of our ongoing Eco Topic and the children are currently enjoying learning about looking after our nursery, the environment and helping us to reduce, recycle and re use.

We have also been learning our Eco song to help us remember some of the ways in which we can save our planet. The words are attached so you can practice at home too!   Our Eco Code

We have had an ‘Egg’scellent day at Bathgate West Nursery with our Easter Celebrations. We enjoyed sharing our work in our Easter Bonnet Parade. There was a surprise visit from the Easter Bunny who had lost all of her eggs in our garden and the boys and girls helped to find all of them in our big Egg Hunt. All of the staff  would like to wish everyone a Happy Easter and have a safe and fun holiday.

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If you brought in books for our Book Swap, please make sure you have a look through our selection and take some books in return. We have lots left to be taken away and enjoyed. Please help yourself.

The boys and girls are enjoying the Book and Fairy tale Topic so much we are going to extend it for another week! We have been learning some super fairy tale songs, exploring characters from fairy tales and nursery rhymes and spotting story characters hidden around our garden. We have also had a very special visitor in our library… Benji Book Bear has come to stay with us. He loves stories and books and the boys and girls at Bathgate West have been spending a lot of time with him in our library, reading to him and listening to stories with him.

We have also taken advantage of the better weather and been out playing in our garden a lot…. we even looked out our slide! It’s been another fun and busy week at nursery!

The boys and girls have been enjoying World Book Day by sharing some of their favourite books from home with their friends.

A  good website to help you explore stories and books with your child at home is the Play Talk Read website. There are lots of ideas, activities and of course stories to enjoy together!

http://playtalkread.org/

We have been celebrating the Hindu festival of Holi in the nursery this week. Holi is a fun festival of colours which celebrates the arrival of spring. Some of the children in the nursery went outside for our alternative ‘colour fling’ and instead of throwing paint at each other we threw paint at large sheets of paper. The results were  pretty impressive!

Many of our children at the nursery are lucky enough to have become big brothers and sisters over the past few months so there has been a lot of baby chat and baby role play in the house corner. We were lucky enough to have a visit from little baby Lewis and his Mummy who shared with us all of the important things parents must do to look after and care for a new baby. We now know what a big job this is and we have been practising with our own baby dolls in the house corner. We would like to thank Baby Lewis for coming to see us with his great big smiles and of course his Mummy, the boys and girls loved having such a special visitor at the nursery and are hoping to see him again soon.