Mrs Stewart has enjoyed her snow day with Toni her dog, going on lots of walks.
Toni loves the snow and was playing hide and seek! However he did get a little grumpy when his ball disappeared into the snow!
Evie’s pirate chest
Evie has managed to make this fantastic pirate chest during her snow day!
Good job Evie, hopefully we will be able to use the junk in nursery to make some fantastic things too, what a lovely way to recycle!
Kirkton Park
Today we followed the path into Kirkton Park during Forest Fun.
“Its right next to my park” Aimee.
As you can see from the video everyone had a great time exploring the park land, climbing on trees, hunting for treasure and telling stories in the Den.
Hope you enjoy!
Den Day
On Monday the 19th we headed to the woodland. Now that the children are becoming more confident in using the environment and risk assessing independently we are able to start adding more exciting activities normal kept for indoors, outdoors!
To keep us dry we had to build a den!
Here is a short video which documents our learning!
The Swing
We have now enjoyed 4 weeks of Forest Fun!!
We are becoming more confident outside and are developing our independence especially in relation to risk assessing and dressing skills.
This week we made a swing in the woodland, we will let the video explain!
Bookbug Visit!
The Wednesday children were very excited to meet the
“actual real bookbug” Martha
The children enjoyed listening to a story ‘The Crocodile Who Was Afraid Of Water’ before singing some of their favorite nursery rhythms and songs hoping that the Bookbug would hear and come to see them.
They were not disappointed, not only did he visit he also left a gift for the Anti-Preschoolers in the form of an EXPLORER BAG (Pre-school children will have received theirs last year) .
The Scottish book trust aim to inspire young readers, offing explorer bags to 3 year olds and also run free sessions within local libraries and community centers across Scotland (including our own community wing in Boghall).
These sessions are great fun and full of stories, songs and rhyme which support the development of speech, confidence, movement and co-ordination skills.
For more information please go to scottishbooktrust.com/localbookbugsessions
The Actual Real Bookbug on Film 7 Feb 2018
Festive Friday!
Wow, what an amazingly busy morning!!
We are all thrilled that so many of you could take the time out to come this morning and hope you all enjoyed our Festive Friday.
After our stay and play it was requested that there be more opportunities for Parents to meet one another and we couldn’t help but add some Christmas Cheer into the mix!!
On the last head count we had 24 nursery children and almost 56 adults, all within nursery playing and engaged in activities, what a fabulous turn out!!
I think you will all agree that the children sang amazingly well and of course the staff didn’t do too badly either!
We will get a photo out to all who attended next week, but to keep you going here are a few of the Children and their families enjoying themselves this morning!!
Christmas Cheer!
Christmas is always a really busy time of year in the nursery:
We have been out and about within the community acting out the story of the 3 Billy Goats Gruff, we took out masks down to the park and had great fun using the buried tunnel and mound to act out the story!
We have been working on our singing voices for before the Nativity and some of the children had the opportunity to sing on the school stage during all together time on Wednesday, the school children were fantastic listeners and the nursery children really enjoyed performing. We hope everyone will enjoy listening to us on the 15th, we are really looking forward to it!!
Being the month of December we are focusing on Caring and Kindness within the nursery, last week the children were asked “Who has been kind to us, or helped us in our Nursery?” Staff noted the responses and our Kindness Advent Calendar started on Monday!
We took lots of time thinking of nice things we could make, bake and design to show our appreciation for people who have helped us! The children will all take turns to deliver a Kindness gesture and on Monday we began with the Community wing!! We are grateful for all the help they gave the nursery at the beginning of its journey hosting parents meetings and for continuing to allow us to share their play area.
Tuesday we said thanks to the Janitors, Drew, Tom and Diane! They fix our toys for us and they help the ladies move heavy furniture, they also make sure the doors are unlocked so we can play in nursery.
On Wednesday it was the turn of Miss Potter and Primary 6, we really enjoy them coming to visit us in the nursery and enjoy the stories they read us in the library. All the children look forward to them knocking on the door and we know they loved the Crispy Cakes we made them!
On Thursday we said Thank you too Mrs Grey she comes and presents NYCOS to our children and staff. We are thankful for her taking time to teach us new songs and games and helping us develop our ability to hear and follow rhythm and beat.
We have been busy making lots of nice gifts and cards to be given out as Kindness Advent…. I wonder who will get a visit from Mini Santa’s next week??
Sorry for the Delay !
Its been a busy couple of weeks in the nursery!!
We’re not quite sure where to start!!
“Stay and Play” sessions have been happening over the last fortnight giving Parents/Carers the the opportunity to visit nursery and find out about all the exciting activities the children are involved in.
This was a great success with parents joining in activities and engaging with all the children, we even had the birth of a baby in the hospital, much to the surprise of the Mummy in question!
Parents/Carers were also encouraged to giving feedback on what the nursery are doing well and where we can improve. There were some truly lovely comments given and some fantastic ideas which have given us food for thought!
There will be a “You said, We did” display arranged so you will be able to see how we aim to take your comments forward.
The library opportunity with Primary 6 is in full swing! The Primary 6’s take small groups of children to the library to read to them and also helping them to choose a story to share at home. This is a great opportunity for the children to meet older children within the school and develop relationships with those who will be buddies for our pre-school children attending Boghall as Primary 1 next year.
We are really lucky to have Alison from Caterpillar Music and Mrs Grey from the National Youth Choir of Scotland come and visit us within the nursery both offering great opportunities to join in with singing and games.
Mrs Grey from the National Youth Choir of Scotland visits us on Tuesday and Thursday helping us to develop our circle games, follow rhythm and beat as well as singing together as a group. Alison from Caterpillar Music will be attending in 6 week blocks moving days as the blocks progress so that all the children have the opportunity to attend sessions. Alison uses themes, instruments and fun songs to engage the children with rhythm and beat.
Both opportunities help develop vocabulary and are great fun!
During a walk to Kirkton Park we got a little side tracked by the puddles….
This was a fantastic opportunity to get outside and splash, the children are developing their self help skills by getting ready independently and also dressing themselves once we return to nursery (I don’t think there was a dry sock to be found anywhere!!)
Important dates:
Tuesday 28th November – Christmas Fayre 6-8pm
Friday 15th December – Festive Friday and School Nativity
Thursday 21st December – Christmas Party 1.30-2. 30pm
All break up for Christmas holidays Friday 22nd December
You should have all received a letter this week with more information regarding these dates.
