Hello to everyone,

This week the story of Goldilocks and the Three Bears has been in all areas of our nursery. Children have been exploring porridge, measuring how many spoons it takes to fill the three different sized bowls. They also discovered it is absorbent as they first “fed the fish” in the water tray and then continued this by adding water to the tray of porridge and then continuing to add water- “Yuk!” “It’s sticky!” “It’s stuck to me” and “What happened?” was frequently heard. Though their hands were covered in soggy porridge they did enjoy this experience.
Children retold the story in the home corner, using puppets and other props to create their own Bear’s house. Let us not forget the outdoor area as crates have mobilised to make chairs for the bears and children still retell this wonderful story. This story also focused on the language of mathematics with differentiation of sizes such as big and biggest or small, middle and large.

Continuing from our water focus children have been creating boats and testing them out to see if they sink or float. Those who made boats out of paper/cardboard recognised that their boat floats to start off with but depending on size will sink “’cause it got wet and the water made the paper all soft.”

The primary schools had invited Jidel Judo 93 into the community centre and we were lucky to be be included too for a wee taster session in the morning. Most children were very keen to participate and were certainly enthusiastic in following instructions. John was the instructor and Anna supported him in demonstrating some of their moves such as “Link sausages”. Both John and Anna were impressed how children worked collaboratively to do this as it requires concentration and team work. Well done everyone.
Children thoroughly enjoyed their time and left saying, “That was great, I really enjoyed it!” and “That was super cool”. Though John doesn’t do Judo for under fives, he was impressed with the hall and said he may start up a class on a Tuesday night in August – we have some flyers if anyone is interested.

Our snack menu is changing from June 6th 2022 as we can longer buy supplies from Tesco. But don’t worry our food will still be fresh and nutritious as we continue to follow the guidelines in place from the NHS Setting the Table.

Dates for your Diary

Monday 30t May Parent Consultation starts for the next two weeks.

Friday June 3rd 2022 nursery will be CLOSED for celebrating the Queen’s Jubilee. This is the last time the nursery will be closed until December.

Thursday June 2nd 2022 a change to our Lunch Menu as West Lothian Council kick off this event with a royal theme meal.

Friday 17th June Leaver’s Assembly (Graduation) for children going to school in August.