Category: Our Learning

This week we heard the story The Owl Babies. We then talked about how many feathers a baby owl would need to keep warm, we took turns counting out the feathers.

We go through lots of playdough at nursery and the kids love to get involved making it. We carefully weigh and measure the ingredients which is so much fun the children don’t even realise they are learning.

Mrs Galbraith was very brave this week and took some children outside for some muddy play.  How does that relate to maths?  Well I can tell you it has left the nursery team counting the washing!

Another way to learn is through song, this week to tie in to the maths theme we chose Five Little Ducks.  Everyone loved counting and singing.

We used the words the same and not the same at group time today to sort our bears. We enjoyed choosing which bears were the same colour and the same size.

Problem solving using pictures and colours is a great way to learn, here you can see we followed the instructions and counted out each block to match.

It is maths week this week and schools across Scotland have been completing challenges and finding out about maths. Not to be left out we’ve focused lots of our learning around counting and numbers.

Here the boys decided to use the chairs to make a taxi which became so busy they changed it into a bus, they then decided they needed tickets for the bus.  They made tickets and wrote numbers on them and counted everyone on and off.

When we returned from our summer holiday the trees in the nursery garden were laden with apples.  We decided to put them to good use by stewing them.  The children helped to collect them and took turns to wash the fruit, chop it and cover it with a little sugar before cooking it.  Everyone was asked if they wanted to taste, some liked it more than others.

We took advantage of the drier weather this week and got outside for some problem solving.  Boxes, crates and planks of wood were all used to create a car which had to be extended into a limo to make room for everyone to fit.  Great learning and great fun.