Category: Expressive Arts

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PEEP with Mrs Ola

Mrs Ola’s PEEP has been great fun for both our children and their families, so far the children have been developing their early mathematical concepts, counting with 1-1 correspondence, sorting & matching, shapes and sizing. Peep group is a fantastic opportunity for parents/carer’s to work in partnership with their child to support their learning.
Please see Mrs Ola for more information.

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Christmas Sing-a-long

Please have a look through our song lyrics in the Sway below to begin practicing our nativity and Christmas songs. (Printed copies of the lyrics can be found in the foyer)
Children in the afternoon session will be recorded singing by West Lothian Council for their YouTube channel on Thursday 6th December at 1pm, our morning children are invited back to nursery to join in accompanied by their parents.

Nativity Sing-a-long Date reminders (2 Adults per child, per sing-a-long) :
Wednesday 12th December – Parents
Thursday 13th December – Grandparents

 

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Fire Pit Vegetable Pizza

After reading ‘Olivers Vegetables’ we discussed what we could make if we had lots of fresh vegetables. We are very lucky to have such a fabulous orchard so we already knew where some of the vegetables came from just like in Olivers grandpa’s garden. We decided on vegetable pizza and vegetable (carrot) soup. Please see floor book in nursery for more comments.
Instead of buying pizzas we put our fire pit to good use. After preparing selecting our toppings we used the heat from the flames to melt the cheese toppings. Margaret and Miss Kelly used our safety fire booklet and explained to us how to keep ourselves and each other safe by being responsible around the fire.
We each took turns carefully placing our pizza on the grill and watched closely to see the cheese begin to melt.
At Bathgate Early Years Centre we promote experiences with a risk benefit, ’embrace risk in a positive sense rather than limiting valuable experience’
All activities are risk assessed prior to being carried out, a task we complete alongside the children. We believe this is a valuable lesson for every child as this provides the early skills and abilities for a child to risk asses their own play and challenges throughout life.
Have any ideas of what else we could cook on our fire pit? Please comment below or tweet any suggestion to @wlbeyc
Please have a look at our video below:
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Parent Craft Group

We would like to invite all parents/carers to join our Parent Craft Group, starting on Wednesday 24th October 2018.

The purpose of the craft group is to demonstrate new skills and to use expertise as we prepare goods for our Christmas Fair, which takes place at the end of November. It is a relaxing way to be creative, chat and have some fun with other parents/carers in our Nursery.

The group will run during the morning and afternoon session on a Wednesday, for 5 weeks, taking us right up to the date of the Fair.

Time: 9.00am-11.00am- 1.00 pm-3.00pm.

If you are interested in coming along and supporting your child, and the work which goes on in the Nursery, please speak to Mrs Todd.

Everyone is welcome!

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Music & Loose Parts

At Bathgate Early Years Centre we encourage the children to play and explore open ended and loose part resources. (Versatile items and materials which can become anything a child envisions)

This week the children helped to revamp the music area and had a great idea of how they could really make it their own, Please have a look at our Sway below to see…

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Introducing Clay

 

 

Please have a look at our Sway Link above.  Sway is an online Microsoft presentation programme.  Tap/click on the right arrow to scroll through the presentation and view the photos and videos.  When you see a ‘stack’ of photos, tap/click on each photo to flick through the stack
When you see a ‘Video’ tap/click the play button

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Apple harvest

 

Please have a look at our Sway Link above.  Sway is an online Microsoft presentation programme.  Tap/click on the right arrow to scroll through the presentation and view the photos and videos.  When you see a ‘stack’ of photos, tap/click on each photo to flick through the stack
When you see a ‘Video’ tap/click the play button

 

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