Outdoor Music Station

The boys and girls along with staff members worked together to plan how to develop our outdoor  music area.  We had  small planning meetings to discuss what objects we could find around nursery which could make the most noise/music – pots and pans were our favourite choice! We then used a pallet from St Mary’s Primary to fix our selected ‘instruments’ onto. Once we gathered all our noisy instruments we got wrapped and went into the garden to build our musical instrument station with Miss Kelly.  This was great fun.

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The Sleepy Shepherd Nativity at BEYC

Well done to all the children at Bathgate Early Years Centre who put on a total of 4 fantastic Nativity performances this week!

Thank you to all parents/carers and grandparents who  came to watch our versions of ‘The Sleepy Shepherd’.

The total amount raised for River Kids  was £400.35.

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Continued community / home link learning

We were very excited to have a visit from a nurse (Lily’s mum) in the afternoon. We discovered that a nurse is someone who cares for us and looks after us if we are poorly.  We also found out about all the different jobs a nurse does in a busy hospital. We had lots of things to see and investigate including a stethoscope and a real cast. We had great fun trying this on and listening for each others heartbeat. Children shared their stories of when they have visited the doctors or spent some time in hospital. Lily’s mum kindly left us a few very interesting books to borrow which will help to further develop our learning and new vocabulary about our bodies and people who help us.

Thank you very much to Lily’s mum for this fun, educational, hands on experience!

If any parents/family members would to come in and chat with the children about your job/role in the community please speak to any of the nursery staff.  We would be delighted to learn from you!

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On Tuesday morning the Wraparound children from Bathgate Early Years Centre put on their santa hats and walked to Acerdale House to sing Christmas songs to the ladies and gentlemen at the centre, on Mid Street.  This was a fantastic opportunity for the children to renew friendships with our senior residents of Bathgate and the enthusiasts singing was enjoyed by all!

Here they are pictured with Caitlin McKay, Work Experience student.

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St Andrews Day Celebration

The boys and girls all helped to celebrate St Andrews day on Monday the 30th of November. We were very busy in the art area learning about St Andrew, (a fisherman who was friends with Jesus) and creating our own Scottish flags to take home.  Some children chose to paint their flags and others chose to make their own using glue and cutting white strips. We enjoyed, dancing to Scottish music and dressing up in tartan skirts and hats.  We ate a yummy Scottish snack of Scottish oatcakes and Scottish shortbread with our fruit.  We plan to revisit this topic and learn more about Scotland after the Christmas holidays (Christmas has taken over in nursery!).

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Harvest art work inspired by orchard produce.

We have been very busy using the produce from our orchard to create seasonal artwork this week. On Monday we  explored the different colours and textures of the plants and fruit and vegetables in our garden to decide what we could use for art and craft materials.  We liked the feel of the sticks and the bright colours and smell of the petals.   When we were digging up the potatoes to be used for potato wedges at snack and harvesting the apples to bake in pies and crumbles, we decided bring some of fruit and veg to our art areas to try printing with them, painting with them and using them as colage materials..   Please have a look at our finished pieces of work at the front entrance.

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Van Gogh Sunflowers.

The children were very interested in looking at the sunflowers that were growing in the garden and then on display in a vase in the nursery playroom recently.  We then moved the vase of sunflowers to the indoor and outdoor art areas where children chose to use them as a visual aid for painting and creating mixed media representations of sunflowers. Children also studied pictures of Van Gogh’ Sunflowers artwork  to learn more about the technique and the work of artists.

 

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