Ladywell Nursery School

We would like to wish a warm welcome to all of our families new and returning to Nursery after the holidays and we hope you all had a fabulous summer.

All staff are delighted to see the children have settled into the Nursery very easily and all seem happy to be back or to be joining us.

The children have continued to enjoy baby play in the Nursery.  There has been lots of role play, creating stories and sharing and cooperating with each other.  The children have a good understanding of the tasks required to look after babies.

Some children made Father’s Day cards this week.   We would like to wish everyone a happy Father’s Day!

We harvested some of our potatoes and we plan to make some potato salad next week.

This week in Nursery we have been learning about symmetry.  The children have been participating in many activities building on their knowledge and understanding.

Yoga time.

Practising our cutting skills during skills sessions.

We have also discussed holidays and countries we would like to visit.  We have spent time learning about what animals live where.

We have been busy in the garden this week looking after our potatoes, which are growing well.  We have planted some wild flowers and broad beans.

Our transition visits to Harrysmuir have continued this week and lunch at the school was a great success.

The children have continued to enjoy hunting for minibeasts in the nursery garden.  They have found a variety of bugs, and we have been learning their names, discussing their size and counting legs and spots.  Indoors we have been playing mini beast board games and using small world toys to practice our counting,  subitising, matching and sorting abilities.

The children have been using the floorbook to share their thoughts, ideas and drawings.  We would love for you to have a look through this and share any of your own thoughts and ideas with us.

Our transition visits to school have started this week and the children have thoroughly enjoyed visiting the Primary 1 classroom and school playground at Harrysmuir Primary.

We have spent lots of time in the garden hunting for minibeasts.  We have discovered lots of worms, centipedes, ladybirds, woodlice and spiders.  We have been learning their names, counting their legs and discussing their size and length.

In this term, at Nursery we are learning about the importance of staying active.  So you may hear your children talking about Active Alex.

Nursery is on holiday now until Wednesday 8th May.  Have a lovely weekend.  We hope the sun is shining.

The children have been making full use of the Nursery garden this week.  The sunshine is long overdue.  We have begun looking for signs of Spring and discussing what happens in the world around us.

The children have been planting seeds and potatoes in the garden, and some children have sent photos of signs of Spring they have seen while out and about with their families which we will add to our floorbook.  We have also been making our own perfume from petals and leaves. 

We have also began hunting for mini beasts and will be taking this forward next week where we will be increasing our vocabularies leanrning the names of minibeasts and the names of body parts.  We will practice our counting, subitising, sorting and matching through the mini beast topic.

The children have continued to be interested in the people who help us in the world.  We have a new small-world police station which has been very popular.  The children have been using their imaginations to invent situations.  We are also working hard on sharing and turn-taking.

Some children thoroughly enjoyed preparing and chopping vegetables to make soup for snack.  The soup was very popular and very tasty.

We would like to wish you all a Happy Mothering Sunday.  We hope you have a lovely day!

We have been learning about mathematical language and measurement.  The children have taken part in a wide variety of measuring activities and have been learning the language of measure. 

We also had our February birthday celebration.  We enjoyed cake and sang happy birthday to all our friends with birthdays in February.

The children who received star awards this month were

Millie Mae, Elina, Harris, Inaaya, Dylan and Aria.  Well done!

In Nursery this week we have continued to discuss and learn about different types of weather.  We have been using a variety of words each day to describe and record the weather.  We have noticed that in Ladywell we get lots of wind and rain.

We have also enjoyed learning about the Chinese New Year.  We have been working hard on our fine motor skills using chopstix, trying to copy  Chinese writing and using scissors to make Chinese lanterns.

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We also worked together to make our own Chinese dragon to allow us to perform our own dragon dance.