Polbeth Nursery School Blog

September 11, 2020
by Miss Taylor
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Look how busy we have been!!!!!

This has been a really busy week!!!!!

We have been picking the apples from our tree in the garden and taking them to our potato box. We have been developing our own imagination skills by creating what we are thinking, we made ‘Mud apple soup’. Rocco was trying to gather interest among his peers by calling out “Get your apple Soup here!!!!!”

Amelia, “We need another apple!!”

Jacob, “there is ten apples”

We are going to Harvest the Apples from the tree and make Apple Crumble!!! Yummy.

We also took part in a science activity with Miss Livingston. This involved using little cardboard tubes, vinegar, bicarbonate of soda, and food colouring. We  watched to see what would happen when all the ingredients were put together and linked the colour explosion to our mood monsters by using describing words to express our thoughts such as: sad, happy, angry, worried etc

Karim “that’s stinking”

Oonagh, “red is for angry, green is for worried”

We are going to do more science activities to further develop our observation skills and thoughts

We are developing our paint station and have lovely new pump action bottles and used the primary colours blue, red and yellow so that we can do mixing and explore the changes that take place when two or three  colours are mixed together.  We have also been exploring our curiosity in mark making by using sticks and paint.

The weather stayed nice so that we could get to make make Hot marshmallows at the fire pit. We were told all about the safety around the fire such as why we have to have a bucket of water near and why we don’t go past the red rope without an adult,  we listened really well to this and waited our turn to roast our Marshmallow We were very interested used language to describe and ask questions and we want to make other things:

Karim, “Hot Chocolate”

Argyll, ” whats that smell?”    Smoke

Cody, “The fire is nice and cosy”

James “mallow!! Yummy!!!!

 

 

September 4, 2020
by Miss Taylor
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Emotions

We are focusing on exploring our emotions and feelings. Through the use of mood monsters we are giving the children the opportunity to engage in activities to talk about their feelings.

At our entrance we have an area with Happy, Sad, Angry and Worried pictures, when the children come into nursery in the morning/afternoon they have the opportunity to go and get their own name/picture card and place it on the mood monster that tells us how they feel.

We also have other resources around the nursery, Miss Livingston has been making a game for the children to play consisting of various feelings picture cards which are placed on the floor and the children can use a bean bag to throw onto the picture and say which facial expression it is. 

Miss O’Hara has been listening to what the children want and through this has brought out various resources such as buttons, pasta, google eyes and picture frames. The children were happily engaged making use of the resources and had fun with the picture frames and facial expressions.

The drawing resources were also of interest to develop mark making and talk about what they are drawing. Miss Trench was  engaging in play with the children at this area where some lovely work was displayed about feelings. Ariana drew circles and used sticker eyes and when asked about her pictures she said, “it is a happy face and an angry face”

All staff are supporting the children to talk about there feelings.

August 28, 2020
by Miss Taylor
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Having fun Exploring.

We have been very busy in the Nursery this week, we have been enjoying being out in the rain with our waterproofs so that we could splash in the big puddle area.

We have explored painting techniques and have been  using marbles and balls to roll in trays with paint and paper to get a print effect.  We have also done our handprints for our group wall.
We have also explored clay and moulded it into shapes of our choice enjoying the messy play.

We have been enjoying using our Billy Goats Bridge and have been recalling the story using props.

August 28, 2020
by Miss Taylor
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Welcome back to Biscuit and Muffin.

Children who have returned to Nursery have been so excited to see our Guinea pigs Biscuit and Muffin. Mrs Gray has been looking after them during lockdown and the children have been asking about them. Mrs Gray was telling the children that Biscuit and Muffin have been well looked after.

When Mrs Gray brought them back to Nursery the children all gathered round to welcome them back. Biscuit and Muffin got a lots  of attention from the children. Jorja remembered that she had previously helped to feed them before and asked if she could do this again, she and Jamie fed some Kale to the guinea pigs of which we are sure they really enjoy.

Our new start children have also been introduced to the Guinea pigs and are so excited about them as well, they are keen to learn about them and help to give them food. There is a little play pen area that Biscuit and Muffin use to get exercise and children take chairs over to sit and watch them playing.

August 17, 2020
by Miss Taylor
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Welcome back to Nursery

Children have settled back in really well to the nursery environment, we have kept the nursery areas as they were before lockdown with only a few adjustments to adhere to the government guidelines such as separate sand trays for morning and afternoon sessions, limiting the amount of resources at each area so that staff can keep up the cleaning process, promoting more outdoor play etc

Children have been so resilient and have adapted well to the new ways throughout the pandemic and are demonstrating a good understanding of why there is some changes. So well done to all our parents/carers for the amazing job you have put in place.

On entering the nursery they remembered the routine of hanging up jackets and happily accepted the new part of washing hands before going off to explore and were so excited to see their friends in nursery.

They are eager to go exploring the areas and knew where to go for what choice of activity they wanted to take time with. We have tried to keep everything in the nursery as normal as is possible and are keeping our focus on Health and Well Being with reassurance and continuity where we are doing our very best to provide a safe, stimulating, warm, friendly  and welcoming environment for the children.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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