Safari fever has reached Bathgate West Nursery this week as we prepare for our summer trip to Blair Drummond Safari Park in a few weeks time. We have been learning about some of the animals that we will see when were are at the Safari Park. The AM and PM Green Groups each chose an animal they wanted to research more about. They used information books and the internet to find out some interesting facts. Then they shared their learning with the other boys and girls. They are now looking forward to seeing what the other groups have been discovering about Safari animals. Throughout the nursery we have been looking closely at all of the amazing animal prints and created some of our own and we have been enjoying drawing and painting our own animals as well as talking about what we are hoping to see when we go to the Safari park. Take a look at some of our work.

In other news…. our caterpillars are all tucked up nicely sleeping in their cocoons and we are eagerly awaiting their transformation in beautiful butterflies!

It’s been a very busy week, as this week we have also been gearing up for the Newland’s Day Procession, so hopefully we will see all of you Super Heroes tomorrow. Remember bring your capes, smiles and loudest singing voices …     Hip, Hip Hooray!!!

We are continuing our learning with our People Who Help Us topic and it’s been another busy week at Bathgate West Nursery. Tam the Postman paid us a visit to share how his job helps our community. We have been solving crimes, looking for clues and dealing with emergency situations in the nursery this week. A Do-At-Home activity has also been sent home this week for you and you child to spot some of the things that may keep you safe on your travels to and from nursery. See how many you can find…good luck!

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.

REMEMBER 

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!

What a busy week we have had at nursery!

On Tuesday we raised a massive £116 for Comic Relief from our Fancy Dress Day and Bake Sale. We also learned a bit more about why we were raising money and had great fun making funny faces as we danced to a Red Nose Day song. Thank you to everyone that contributed.

On Wednesday and Thursday we have all had a great time going to the library. Thank you to everyone that walked with us, especially the afternoon groups as they all got pretty wet.