It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas here at Bathgate West Nursery! The children have been involved in creating some lovely festive displays around the nursery, they have been helping to decorate the Christmas Tree and also preparing the scenery for our upcoming Nativity. I think you will agree the nursery is all set and looking fabulous for a busy few weeks till Christmas!

We are also working hard to learn our songs and dances for this year’s Nativity performance ‘Come to the Manger’. Remember you can take a song word sheet to practice at home. We are looking forward to performing for our audiences in the next few weeks.

The change in temperature has provided a focal point of discussion out in the nursery garden… we couldn’t miss all of the twinkling frost on the playground and the children have been spotting patches of ice hidden inside tyres, under pallets and inside buckets this week.

Archie wanted to break up the ice puddle he had found and said it would crack up. Finley has wanted to freeze water by leaving outside over night he said that water turns to ice at night. Our fire pit was filled with ice and we spotted wood trapped inside.. the children asked to melt the ice to get the wood out. Suggestions were that we put it in the sun, use hot water and some children wanted to crush it with their feet.

It sure has been a cold week, so wrap up warm so we can continue our learning outdoors as much as possible…

Take a look at our sway which is always being updated with how our learning is developing and progressing at Bathgate West…

The children have being having fun and raising money for Children in Need today. We dressed spotty, made spotty biscuits, took part in Pudsey crafts and danced to our Teddy Bear song. A big thank you to everyone who donated money for a very good cause…we will keep you posted on our total!

autumn-scavenger-hunt

Take a look at our Try at Home activity which links in with our current learning at nursery. To see how our learning has been developing please take a look at our Sway (in one of the posts below) and let us know of any links from home to our learning at nursery .

The Try at Home activity can also be picked up from the entrance to nursery.

Fletch and Gordon were back again this week for our music groups and they brought along some drums, some of the children helped to tell the story of Boris the spider using the drums.

Today we went on our Autumn walks around the local park to see what changes have been happening in our local environment and community. We had the added bonus of snow this morning to add to our discussions of the changeable weather we get in Scotland! On our walks we used our senses to explore the changes around us and we even had a couple of little autumnal friends on hand with some autumn related challenges and activities. To see how the Autumn walks link into our new consultative planning approach check out our Sway (see the post below).

Here are jut a few photos from our walks today…

Check out the Sway below to see how we are developing our planning and learning within the nursery using our new consultative planning approach. We will be continually adding to and updating the Sway so please keep checking to see how our learning is progressing. As always we love to hear what you think, so please feel free to leave a comment on our Blog.

There were lots of witches, spiders, superheros and spooky creatures today, great fun was had by all at the parties. Thank you to everyone for coming in all your lovely costumes.