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The children have had lots of fun today at nursery. We have been playing with water pistols. They thought it was funny soaking Miss Kitchin as she was filling up the water balloons. Some of the children were using the water pistols to wash the windows.

We used hula hoops as targets for the water balloons. The children all stood behind the red line and threw the water balloons into the different sized hoops. We were able to identify the hoops by size and talked about the distance we had thrown them We recorded on the chalk board which hoop the water balloon had ‘splatted’ in. 

After all the fun and excitement we enjoyed cooling off in the paddling pools on the cool grass.

Lets hope we get more nice weather where we can enjoy more days like this at Deans ELC!!!

Happy Friday everyone!!

Hope you are all well and have had an amazing week, the weather has been alright hasn’t it? We have had a very busy week especially with Adventure Ted who has now made an appearance into nursery which is very exciting! Since the weather has been nice we have been out in the nursery garden engaging in planting with Miss Galbraith.

Come see some of our adventures with Ted and how the wee gardeners have been getting on.

Our adventures with Ted

Adventure Ted has made their way back into nursery and is looking to go on an adventure with our children over the weekend. As you can see, some of our wee monkeys have been luckily enough to be picked by Ted to go on an adventure with. Now, you can imagine the adventure these guys have been on from the park or the cinema which is all very exciting! Ted is always looking for an adventure so be prepared for a busy busy weekend if your wee one comes home with Ted haha!

Deans Nursery gardeners

The weather has really turned around this week which opened the opportunity for some planting. Miss Galbraith has done an amazing job of maintaining our lovely garden – we would give Dobbies a run for the money haha! The children this week have been involved in planting fruit & veg and when the have fully grown they will be delicious, so does it look like we have potentially new gardeners in town? would it surprise you? it wouldn’t surprise us with this talented lot. When you are walking around the nursery make sure to have a look and see all the hard work that is going into our amazing garden.

Well well well another week down and ready for the longish weekend, I bet we are all ready for it! We hope you have a lovely weekend whatever you are up to and we will see you on Tuesday for another fast paced exciting week!

Stay Safe

ELC

Welcome back everyone!

We hope you have had an amazing time off and been very busy. We can’t wait to hear all the excitement you have been upto and also what treats the Easter bunny left you on Sunday!

Over the course of the last 2 weeks we have been quiet but very busy from visiting the park to Easter activities, it’s been very exciting.

Come hop in and see what our little Easter bunnies have been upto!

Mornings at the park

We went to the park on Friday morning for a little holiday treat. On our way there we engaged in some animal spotting, we were trying to see what we could see and also hear on our travels. It was a beautiful but cold morning and some of our brave wee souls attempted the big spider climbing apparatus and even had a go on the traditional seesaw! We also used our road safety as we were crossing some roads when getting to the park and spoke about the importance of being safe near roads.

The Easter Bunny is on the way!

Well as you can see we have been super busy taking part in some Easter activities, we made some delicious crispy cakes with Miss Copland `(they were very delicious trust me haha) and they turned out superb! We also had a Easter egg hunt and you imagine how fast the children found they chocolate – must be a super power when it comes to sweets haha.

Well first week back was a quick one but was nice to see everyone back!

Hope you have had a good week back and we have enjoyed listening to the children’s stories!

Have a nice weekend and we will see you back next week!

Stay safe!

ELC.

Happy Friday everyone and the Easter holidays are here!!!!!

Hope you had a great week but what has the weather been all about? Sunshine Monday then absolutely horrible the rest another big sad face :-((((((

Anyway we have been super busy doing some Easter activities – getting into that Easter bunny spirit. We also got to celebrate a staff members special birthday, so come see our fun this week and mysterious birthday celebration!!

Step into Easter

How quick has this year been already, we are right into decorating eggs!! We have been so busy with Easter activities this week, as you can see our little Easter bunnies have been decorating their own egg to take home – on top of the chocolate egg they also get to take home….lucky ducks haha!! We put out glue, glitter and all different resources but by the looks of it you can’t go wrong with a old fashioned pen decoration haha! Some of the faces these eggs have been brilliant and also funny, it’s been interesting watch create their own decorations.

Who’s birthday is it???

HAPPY 40th BIRTHDAY!!!

It was Miss Stewart’s birthday this week and staff and children baked her a wonderful and very delicious cake. We all got the chance to wish Miss Stewart a happy birthday and give out lots of cuddles from our monkeys! From the staff and children you don’t look a day over 21 and we hope you have a lovely weekend!!!

Well that is another week done and dusted and I think some of us are ready for the Easter break! We all hope you have a lovely weekend and an amazing Easter! and don’t eat all the chocolate at once haha!!

See you all next week!

Stay safe!

ELC

Happy hot hot hot Friday everyone!!

Hope you have all had an amazing week being busy and creative in this sunshine and was it hot enough to get the sun cream oot haha!

We have spent the majority of our week outside – showing our well rounded gross motor skills on the trim track, playing games out on the field and even having snack outside. This week has been full of smiles and sunshine and we can’t wait to show you the entertainment!

Come see the funnnnn!

The Deans Daredevils

We have been such daredevils this week out on the trim track and you can tell we all had a blast. We put our balance to the test on the wall (with supervision haha) and see if we can get all the way to end and even jump and see if we can land without falling. It looks like I have been roped into being Mr Catcher haha but what fun we had – but this bunch were absolutely amazing and so confident and motivated tackling these wee obstacles. We hope the weather continues (fingers crossing big time) and we can continue to be outside and enjoy our outdoor learning.

Spring sprinting

We have been taking advantage of this weather and the big field right next to nursery to continue our fitness. We have been using our warm-up, main activity and cool down routine to help us get into that Olympic summer shape haha – this week we have been focusing on the cool down and trust me running in that weather you will need a cool down haha but our guys have been learning the benefits of a cool down and how it calms us back down when returning to nursery. Our bunch are fast fast fast so we need to definitely up our game now haha keep and eye on them a blink and they are off!!

Snacky in the sunny

What a way to top of an amazing week with snack in the Friday morning sunshine! We had some fruit, some yoghurt and some cold water to keep us all hydrated (trying to taking a professional photo in the first one haha). The children spoke about having picnics outside and what they would enjoy at a picnic, which gave us ideas for when summer arrives.

The weekend is here and it is to be warm and beautiful – we all hope you enjoy it while it lasts as its to snow next week BIG SAD FACE :-(((((!!!!

We will see you next week for another amazing week!

Stay safe!

ELC

Happy Friday everyone the sun is shinning and it’s exactly what we have been needing!!

Hope you have had a great week, we have been busy ourselves focusing on measuring and we have even been back in the construction area building – no surprise there with this lot haha!

Drop in and check out what has been happening in Deans Nursery!

Building again?

Well we are back in the construction area…shock haha! These guy have been putting their creative minds to work and construction a ‘double decker’ bus – I hope its a holiday bus to take us away haha. Some of the children designed it so it could try and fit everyone in but I think it was secretly just for them and not staff…This could lead onto a sparked interest in transport but as always will let the children led the way. We all knew that this talented bunch would come up with something new.

Measuring me Measuring you

We have been learning about measuring this week which has been very interesting in Deans Nursery. At group time we have been measuring our heights, we have also been estimating our heights before we used our massive measuring tape to see if we can guess who was the tallest and the smallest. We have also been finding things around the nursery that we can use to measure i.e a ruler and a measuring tube for the water tray. We also have a height chart to help us keep tabs on our ever growing monkeys!!

Well another week is finished and its look like this weekend is set up to be amazing with the sun shinning!!!

See you all next week!!

Stay safe!

ELC

Hey hey everyone hope you have had a great week and its been a busy one!

We have been busy this week outside and discovering some insects in the dirt can you guess what it is? We also have been wizards completing jigsaws.

We have also been using our hall time to focus on exercising through games and discover our heart rate changing. We have very interested in how our heart rate can change through exercise and how its high when exercising and reduces when having a cool down.

Come see this weeks show in Deans Nursery!

Will the jigsaw ever end?

We have been interested in animals lately and I think completing a safari themed jigsaw was appropriate don’t you? The children were wizards at these jigsaws and we know they would be because they are such a talented wee bunch which we have seen in previous blogs – I think we are a bit jealous of how good they are haha! Jigsaws are great for improving cognition, visual-spatial reasoning and short term memory very crucial in pre school. Get out and get some jigsaws and see how fast you can complete it at home – the race is on!!!

The new David Attenborough’s 

Our little explorers have found a little worm in the dirt – the eye sight this lot have is incredible, if you lose anything we all know who to ask now haha! This sparked a mini interest in insects and we spoke about other insects we might find in the grass/dirt and crucially how to look after them when we do find/see them. As you well know we have had the children rack up professions in other areas from builders to hairdressers/barbers – I think a new David Attenborough could be next on that never ending list! What an amazing gang we have!!

Jelly beans

We have been using our gym time to exercise through games with Mr McNab & Miss Swanson and we didn’t realise how fast the children were haha! We have been starting with a warm game called ‘beans’ which involves the children following commands and being different beans i.e running bean, jumping bean and French bean (must ask the children for that one, it’s a great laugh haha). Once our session is finished we have a cool down and this involves laying on the floor and counting to 0-20 very slow (to lower our heart rate). After every activity we check our heart rate to see how fast its going and after our cool down to see if it has lowered. Very interesting to hear the children’s voice their opinion on exercising. Keep an eye out for more blogs on our exercising journey.

We will be all in Olympic shape…haha!

FYI

In the nursery while observing children in play we have become aware that the children have been acting out characters from media they are accessing at home.  Some of the characters and play scenarios are from media that is not age appropriate for our children e.g., Poppy Playtime is age 9+.

In the nursery we actively discourage the children from participating in these play activities as they are not conducive to our nursery values Safe, Nurtured plus Respected and other children are becoming distressed by this.

We would appreciate your support on this.  Thank you.

Well another week has ended and the weekend is finally here!

Hope you have a great weekend and we shall see you next week for a wicked and crazy show in Deans Nursery

Stay Safe

ELC

Hey everyone hope you’ve had a fantastic week and we are back for another weekly blog!

We have another busy week especially because we had pancake day which is just an excuse to go crazy with it am I right????

We also have been having some outdoor fun with the parachute – which made things so much easier because the storm has done a runner. Also we have been investigating and playing with stacking dolls trying to see if we can get fit all the sizes in properly and we even had a yoga session which was amazing!!!

Come and see this weeks entertainment.

The pancake madness

Well we absolutely had a blast having pancakes this week and you can imagine all the different combos the children liked – personally I like mines with ice cream but shush haha! As the children are self serving now, it is giving them that independent opportunity to decide what to choose from what is on offer. Our children are enjoying trying different foods at snack time especially fruit which is great!!

That parachute ain’t blowing away

We have been using the field directly across from nursery to play games and to run laps because the children absolutely love to be running everywhere right now!! We have introduced some parachute games that have included a sing song and the children have really shown high levels of engagement. You can only imagine if we had introduced this during the storm we would all be up up and away haha!

The big doll little doll

Miss Swanson has introduced stacking dolls into nursery to challenge the children – for anyone who might no know what these are they do have different names but are they a set of wooden dolls of decreasing size placed one inside another. The children have been so engaged in these dolls and found in fascinating trying to match all the sizes together and fit them all in. This is activity is going to be a long lasting one so stay tune for the updates…

Lets all do the yoga

We enjoyed some yoga this week thanks to Lotus Learn Yoga who gave us a funtastic jungle safari themed yoga which was super exciting! All the children joined and engaged and from what you can see they were making those poses look effortless. Hopefully this is something we are going to introduce as weekly activity because yoga is very beneficial especially in pre school.

Well that’s another week done and dusted happy Friday!!!

We hope you have a lovely weekend whatever your doing and we will see you all next week!

Stay safe

ELC

Hey everyone!!

Hope you had a great week – it was mental with that weather wasn’t it?

Well in Deans Nursery we have been embracing that windy snowy weather and been having lots of fun. We have been out in the snow making some snow angels and we even brought the snow inside shhhh don’t tell anyone!

Come drop in and see the full show from this weeks entertainment!

The wee snow angels

The second the snow fell we were straight outside enjoying it even though the wind could blow us away at any given moment. We created some snow angels and even had a snowball fight – looked like it was the children against the teachers and we all know who would have won that. As you can imagine, the children didn’t last very long outside because of those icy cold temperatures but it kick started a very interesting topic about arctic animals…stay tuned for that!

The snow creeping in

Well well well the snow has found its way in nursery and into the water tray…I wonder how that got there?. The children were exploring the snow with the arctic animals and we begun to expand and find out what animals the children knew that lived in snowy weather. We even attempted to see how long we could keep our hands in the snow for – it wasn’t very long haha….

The wee successful learner 

“I was showing my mummy my letter A for Alfie”

Alfie has been mark making at home and marked the later A from his name at home in his garden. He was using some chalk and by the looks of it, it was a sunny day as well. Some great learning in the sunshine – if there is any other successful learning going on at home we love to hear about it!!

Another week done guys, its been a snowy wild one but we made it!

Have a great weekend everyone and we will see you next week!

Stay safe!

ELC

Hey everyone happy Friday!! Hope you’ve had a great week and stayed safe as it’s been wet and wild out there.

We have had another busy week learning about Valentines day, how to stay safe during this storm and why they have “funny” names (haha!) and being chefs. In nursery we have also been outside experiencing the storms and making sure our garden is safe and clear.

Come check out our busy week and hopefully it doesn’t blow you away…

Storm whatever it’s name is…

We have had such a good wee week playing in the garden while the storm has been here, the 90mph winds didn’t stop us. As it was very windy, we made our own kites from string and bags, this is something you could do at home if you do venture out into the storm this weekend. As a group, we spoke about different storms the world can experience from tornados to hurricanes and even how the begin which was a very interesting discussions – who knows we could see some of our lot working at the Met Office…

That rain was hammering our garden this week which was a bonus because it gave us HUGE puddles that we could all jump in – our wellies has taken a beaten that day!! Hide – in – seek has been such a popular game in nursery which we have been playing outside, it has been showing us that our wee group are very sneaky at finding they great hiding spots. Also, it has been increasing there numeracy skills as we have been counting from 0-10 and even 0-20.

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