HALLOWEEN WEEKFrom Monday 27th October we will be having a Halloween themed week in Nursery. Your children will have the opportunity to carve pumpkins and dook for apples, and listen to Halloween stories and songs. Your child is very welcome to dress up but can we request no masks please. We are looking forward to lots of Halloween fun!
Some more photo’s from our Math’s Week and how we extend and develop play and learning in numeracy and mathematics………..
Counting and recognising the number of objects we put on our art work and display’s.
Measuring and comparing our heights,
“I am 8 leaves tall”, “I am taller”, “I am smaller than …….”
Discovering shapes and numbers in the world around me.
Baking our ‘Gruffalo Crumble’ involved counting and measuring ingredients and learning and discussing the language of time.
Our Nursery team have been busy creating display boards throughout the nursery to keep families informed about their child’s play and learning. Please take the time to have a look and share your child’s learning and magic moments with us and we can display this on the boards.
Living, Growing and PlayingYou will find this board displayed in our reception area. If your child has had a ‘magic moment’ at home please share this with us. We are both delighted and proud to hear all about your child’s play and learning and would love to display this on the fruit tree’s. Perhaps if your child has managed to put on their shoes for the first time or zipped up their coat, we would celebrate this by writing it on the fruit and displaying it on their group tree (red group has red fruit, green group has green fruit etc).
We have a new ‘Planning’ display board in the main nursery area beside the smartboard. This display’s your child’s voice. photo’s and work of what we have observed during play and learning. This guides us in extending and developing their learning further by taking the lead from their interests.
The children have been enjoying our trips in the local community such as the park, sheltered housing, sensory garden, library, cafe and shops. These opportunities have helped us to build relationships and make valuable connections. The children have shown enthusiasm and used what they have learned from these meaningful real life experiences to extend their role play, literacy and mathematics skills and health and wellbeing.
We have displayed photo’s and your child’s voice on our ‘The World Around Me’ board in the reception area.
Please check the names on your child’s nursery jumper’s. Another child’s jumper is lost and we are trying to find it. Many thanks for your support. Please ensure all your child’s clothing is labelled as it’s easier to find when your child loses it.
Scotland Math’s Week
During Math’s Week the children participated in many math’s activities to help develop and extend their problem solving, numeracy and math’s skills.
Using fingers to show how many
Matching and sorting on our nature trail
Measuring dinosaurs on our height chart
Counting how many blocks we can walk across
Using our problem solving when doing puzzles
Making patterns on the peg boards
Matching on our Autumn Walk
We are urgently looking for kind donations of the food listed below to donate to West Lothian Food Bank in time for Harvest Festival.
Many thanks for your support.
Consultations for 3 and 4 year olds will be held on Wednesday 27th November 5.10-6.40pm, details will follow shortly.
West Lothian Foodbank’s Combined Harvest Appeal
West Lothian Foodbank are looking for the following items as part of their Harvest Appeal:
Tinned tomatoes
Tinned sweetcorn
Sweets
Shampoo
Dried Herbs
Mug Shots
Sponge Puddings
Tinned Cold Meat
Meat Paste
Washing up liquid
If you would like to donate items to the West Lothian Foodbank’s Harvest please hand in any donations to our school. A box has been placed in the main foyer, near the school entrance, for your donations. Thank you
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