Category: Literacy and English

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Learning French with Hannah

This week Hannah a languages student from St Andrews University, has been in nursery working with the children introducing them to French through rhymes and songs.  The children have been counting in French and learning colours in French. Learning to singing Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes  in French (also known as Tete, Epaules, Genoux et Pieds)was fun and very popular with the children.   Next term we plan to continue our French topic and develop our international links by linking with a school in Cran Gevrier, France as the town of Bathgate has been twinned with Cran Gevrier since 2010.

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Life Cycle Learning – Venus Fly Traps.

Some of the afternoon children were talking about a plant that “eats flies”.  After doing some online research, together we discovered this plant is called a Venus Fly Trap.  As part of our ongoing New Life/planting topic the group of children asked if we could look after a Venus Fly Trap in nursery.  Together we looked on Amazon and found seeds and agreed we could plant the them in nursery and grow one ourselves.  After only one week the plants are starting to grow up through the soil.  We must not water them with tap water but only bottled water or rain water instead.  Tap water contains chemicals that are harmful to this type of plant.  Please come into nursery to have a look at our learning story and at our Venus Fly Traps.

If you would like to try and grow one yourself at home, this is the pack we purchased in nursery Grow Your Own Venus Fly Trap.

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Learning Stories

Please remember you can come into nursery to have a look at what the children are learning and how we are supporting their interests.  The New Life topic continues to be very popular, now focusing more on the life cycle of butterflies and plants.  If you are able to help further the children’s learning by sharing your knowledge please speak to any of the staff.  Remember we welcome pieces of work/photographs from home too and will add this to our learning stories.  You can also email information to Miss Wilkinson at eva.wilkinson@westlothian.org.uk

 

 

 

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Learning at home.

We are taking turns to watch this lovely short film ‘Sweet Cocoon’ on the SmartBoard at group time as part of our  ongoing New Life topic.

The morning children have asked for it to be put onto the Blog so they can watch it at home and share it with their families.

Look out for the very quick surprise ending!

Please remember to supervise children when looking at online clips.  For more information on how to keep children safe online please see Think U Know and Net Aware.

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New Life in the Pond.

We spotted frogspawn in our pond yesterday and today we saw three frogs swimming around!  It is hard to see the frogspawn unless the sun is shining on the pond so you need to look very carefully.

Over the next few weeks we will learn about the life cycle of a frog as we see it develop right before our eyes.

HWB050a

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Transition PEEP.

Well done to all the boys and girls and their parents/grandparents who are working very hard at our Transition PEEP groups with Miss Gardner this year.  The Transition PEEP group aims to help prepare children for Primary One by focusing on a variety of literacy and numeracy activities, while building confidence and developing concentration and listening skills. This group will continue into the end of the summer term.

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Fairtrade Fortnight

The boys and girls have been busy celebrating Fairtrade Fortnight with lots of fun and yummy activities.  We had an altogether sit down ‘Big Breakfast’ with freshly made pancakes, bananas and hot chocolate all made from Fairtrade ingredients.  In order to make the breakfast extra special the children wore their pyjamas and onsies.  Outdoors we have been baking bananas with milk chocolate on our fire pit.  Tesco local champion Tracey came to visit us and brought along lots of Fairtrade goodies to make banana lollipops and teach us about the people that Fairtarde helps.  Scotmid very generously donated £20 of vouchers and the Wraparound children took a walk to the local store to buy various Fairtrade products for snack and for baking.  The children also kept an eye out for Fairtrade products in their home and brought the packaging in for our display.

 

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Pizza Chefs

The nursery children have enjoyed making and tasting pizzas this week for snack.  When discussing the types of pizza that they like to eat, during writing a shopping list for the following weeks snack, the children discovered that they liked different/similar  toppings on their pizzas.  They decided they should make their own pizzas for snack, so then had a discussion to decide on which toppings they would like to order.   The boys and girls worked well together in small groups to create delicious vegetarian, chicken and pepperoni pizzas.   Lots of collaboration, cooperation, compromising and problem solving took place to ensure everyone was in agreement and happy about the choice of topping on each pizza…….

HWB 0-14a      HWB 0-19a     HWB 0-23a    HWB 0-35a    LIT 0-02a/ENG 0-03a     MNU 0-11a

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Exciting Writing

Children are encouraged to develop early literacy skills through a variety of materials for mark making, creating letters and writing all around nursery:

Creating texts

Within real and imaginary situations, I share experiences and feelings, ideas and information in a way that communicates my message.

LIT 0-09a

Writing- Enjoyment and choice

I enjoy exploring and playing with the patterns and sounds of language, and can use what I learn.

LIT 0-01a/LIT 0-11a/LIT 0-20a

Tools for writing

I explore sounds, letters and words, discovering how they work together, and I can use what I learn to help me as I read and write.

ENG 0-12a/LIT 0-13a/LIT 0-21a

As I play and learn, I enjoy exploring interesting materials for writing and different ways of recording my experiences and feelings, ideas and information.

LIT 0-21b

LIT 0-09a LIT 0-01a/LIT 0-11a/LIT 0-20a  ENG 0-12a/LIT 0-13a/LIT 0-21a LIT 0-21b

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