Nursery

Thank you to the parents and carers who attended our 'Welcome Meeting' on Tuesday 14th September.

For those who could not attend, please find the Power Point presentation with all the necessary information about your child's education at our school below:

This week at home we have been doing lots of "Moving and Grooving".  These activities help us to improve our listening and gross motor skills.

We have also been counting action such as clapping and jumping.

We have also been going on our own bear and number hunts around our home.

Mrs Carpenter also set us a craft challenge to make some bear masks.

Have a look at this week's slideshow.

Have you logged into our Google Classroom yet so you can join in with lots of fun activities?

We have been reading about Goldilocks and the Three Bears.  We have made porridge and laid the table for the bears.

We have also been drawing "Happy Pictures"

Hello Nursery.

Hope you are all well and are having fun learning at home.

Have you logged into our new Nursery Google Classroom yet? You will be able to complete lots of activities.  Your grown ups will be able to help you upload photos of your learning to share with us.

COLOUR MIXING

We had lots of fun mixing up paint in shaving foam.

We noticed that when we mixed blue and red it made purple and when we mixed blue and yellow it made green.

Over the last few weeks we have been finding out about.....

COLOUR

5/11/20     

Autumn Leaves

We found lots of autumn leaves in the playground.  We talked about the different shapes, sizes and colours we could see.

We used lots of sticky glue to make some leaf number collages.

5/10/2020

This week we will be practising to put our coats on by ourselves.  Please help your child to practice at home.

PARENT/CARER READING WORKSHOP

Hello,

I am Dawid Szot and I am the Early Years manager at Sir John Lillie Primary School. I would like to invite you to watch our reading workshop for parents and carers. Please click on the link below.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1NwbIaHXKgEQVt3_P6CRjdwrRyGUCK5jG/view?usp=sharing

USEFUL LINKS:

Here you can find useful links to help you further support your child(ren) with reading at home.

Letters & Sounds scheme:

https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/190599/Letters_and_Sounds_-_DFES-00281-2007.pdf

Phase 2 letters and the sounds they make:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DIpcahxNSU4&feature=emb_logo

Free online phonics games & resources:

https://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/resources

https://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/for-home/find-a-book/library-page/?view=image&query=&type=book&age_group=Age+4-5&level=&level_select=&book_type=&series=#

https://www.phonicsbloom.com/uk/game/list/phonics-games-phase-1

https://www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/grownups/the-alphablocks-guide-to-phonicshttps://www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/puzzles/alphablocks-missing-letter-quiz

Frogspawn Observation

We looked carefully at the frogspawn in our pond and talked about what we could see and what we think is going to happen.

We will keep checking for signs of change.

We know that we can only go near the pond if an adult is with us.

Firefighters.

On Thursday we had a fantastic opportunity to see some firefighters who were practising how to put out fires.  We saw pretend smoke and 11 fire engines!!! We even met Sherlock the fire dog.

Pancake Day

On Tuesday we celebrated Pancake Day. First we listened to the story of Mr Wolf's Pancakes.

We thought Mr Wolf's friends were very unkind and decided that we would ALL help to make our pancakes.

Watch this space for some exciting news about our outside area!

To celebrate St Valentine's Day we listened to the story "Guess How Much I Love You" and we talked about the people who are special to us.

We made salt dough hearts to give to our special person.

Thank you for coming to

Stay and Play

Gardening

We have been working really hard in the garden. We planted bulbs and are continuing to develop our knowledge of growth, decay and changes over time.

This week we haven reading

We're Going on a Bear Hunt.

We have been joining in with the actions and talking about all the sounds we can hear in our sound book.

We have joined in with repeated refrains,

Have a look and tell us what you think.

If you go down to the woods today............

               .........watch this space for more bear news!!!!!

This week we have been making rainbow pasta.

We used the pasta to make colourful rainbow bracelets. We did our careful counting to make sure that we had the correct amount.

We had lots of fun shaking the pasta!!!!

Here is the recipe if you would like to make rainbow pasta at home.

Colour Mixing with Ice

We did a Science experiment! We felt the "cold, wet" ice and we said it looked like "rocks". We left the ice in our classroom, all day and we noticed that the red and blue ice cubes "melted" and they made "purple water". We can't keep ice in our classroom because it's too hot, but we know that we can find ice in the freezer!

Look at our Elmer display!!

Elmer and the Rainbow

This week we have been listening to the story of Elmer and the Rainbow. 

We didn't listen to all the story so we talked about and made predictions about what we thought would happen at the end of the story. 

We all helped to make a rainbow coloured, giant Elmer, using collage materials. 

Pumpkins

We have been exploring pumpkins and talking about what we have observed. We listened to the story "Pumpkin Soup" and talked about the main characters.  We remembered that the cat did the "chopping," the squirrel did the "stirring" and the duck did the "sprinkling."

We cooked our own pumpkin soup and it was.........

"The best you ever tasted!"

Now that the weather is getting colder we have been wearing our coats outside.

Please watch this short video to show how we can practice becoming more independent.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-FaxBoCvNqM

Drama Workshop

We went all the way upstairs to the top of the school.

We joined in with a drama workshop. We used our imaginations to pretend we were princesses, knights and dragons.  We had to rescue the cat.

This week we had a special visitor.  We counted the "tentacles" and there were 8 of them.  We noticed there was "suckers" on the tentacles.  We thought the visitor felt..... "soft", "slimy" and "squishy."

Can you guess who our visitor was? Have a look at the video to find out.

Today we went to Normand Park. Lots of mums and dads came with us.  We did lots of climbing, sliding and playing. We had our snack at the park.

We would like to say a BIG thank you to all the grown ups who helped us.

We had lots of fun!!!!

We went outside and explored the different sounds we can make with different instruments.  We pretended the brooms were our guitars.

We have been making up our own raps.

Look at our AMAZING learning!!!

We have been having printer problems and we have been unable to print out photos.  The children have been doing some amazing learning so we have created a slide show for you.  We hope you like it.

Daffodils

We have been observing daffodils and developing our understanding of growth and decay over time.

Parachute Games

Colour Mixing

We mixed different colour paints up in shaving foam.

We found out that 

red and yellow made orange

blue and red made purple

yellow and blue made green

Something REALLY exciting has happened in our frog pond!!!!!

We took the magnifying glasses outside to look into the pond and we noticed that the frogspawn had CHANGED and now we have lots of tadpoles!!!!

Red Nose Day

We all wore red clothes today.  We went to assembly this morning and all the grown ups were REALLY silly.

We had lots of fun!!!

Grrrrrrrrrr!!

We have been finding out about the character of the Gruffalo.  We sang the Gruffalo song and looked at illustrations.

We created our own Gruffalos.

World Book Day March 2019

5 Speckled Frogs

This week we have been counting speckled frogs.

We used our careful counting finger to check there were "still five".

We remembered to count the frogs on the log AND in the pond.

Ribbit!!!

This week we were given some frog spawn to put in our new pond.  We looked at it carefully and thought that it looked like "eyeballs".

We have been singing 5 Speckled frogs and watched a programme all about frogs.

We will be using magnifying glasses to look carefully in the pond to look for signs of CHANGE.

Nursery E-Safety Rap

We have been learning a new rap with Nisreene.  We know that if we are using the computer and something pops up, we should "Tell a grown up!"

Pirate Phonics

Pirate Day

Ahoy there!!

Pirate Week

We have really enjoyed "Pirate Week".  We made a pirate ship in the Nursery, using junk modelling resources.  We made our own pirate hats to support our role play.  We walked the plank and pretended that the blue carpet was the sea.  We looked at illustrations in pirate story books and named different parts of the pirate ship, such as "mast", "anchor" and "porthole."

We had a special visitor, Captain Barnacle Bill.  He read us the story Pirates Love Underpants.

Science Open Morning

We had lots of messy fun as we explored....

CHANGE

Our Colour Hunt

We went outside to find Elmer's colours.

We used the camera to take photos of the different colours we found.

We talked about the objects that we found and named their colours.

We planted daffodil bulbs. First, we put soil in the planter and used spades to spread the soil out. We looked at the bulbs and talked about what we could see. We thought they looked like “onions” and “pears”. We used our fingers to make holes in the soil and then pushed the bulbs in.

Thank you for attending our

Phonics and Reading Workshop

Now that it's getting colder we need to start wearing our coats when we go outside.

Have a look at this video to see how easy it is for us to put on our coats by ourselves.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-FaxBoCvNqM

The Very Hungry Caterpillar

This week we have been reading the story of the Very Hungry Caterpillar.

• We have been painting fruit to decorate our snack area.
• We used play dough to make big and little caterpillars.
• We have been sorting fruit.
• We have been counting fruit and thinking about whether we just have "one" fruit or "lots".
• At snack time we have been eating the same fruit as the caterpillar.  So on Monday we ate apples, on Tuesday we ate pears and so on.  We are really looking forward to Thursday so we can eat yummy,  juicy strawberries.

Welcome to the Nursery

All the new children have begun to settle really well and are enjoying exploring all the resources.

We have been singing and talking about the "Pantosaurus Song"

The Royal Wedding

Holiday Home Challenge

World Book Day

Some amazing book characters came  to the Nursery.

Beanstalks

We have been listening to the story of Jack and the Beanstalk.  We all joined in with the repeated refrain:

"Fee Fi Fo Fum, watch out everyone, here I come!"

We talked about the main events in the story.

Cress Heads

We made our own cress heads. You can find out what we did here:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/makes/cbeebies-house-cress-head

We decorated our yogurt pots with our photos, so that when the cress grew it looked like we had green hair.

We used the cress that we had grown to make cress sandwiches.

Gardening

We have started to get the garden ready for the summer.  We filled the planters with soil.

We have also made a mini-indoor garden using grass.  We looked at the grass seeds carefully and noticed that they were "very little" and "a little bit yellow and a little bit brown".  We have been taking it in turns to water the grass.

Spring has sprung!

(or has it?)

Despite the "Beast from the East" we have been finding out about Spring.  We looked carefully at daffodils and talked about what we could see.  We used bright yellow paper to create our own daffodils.

Science Week 

We really enjoyed Science Week 2018 and had lots of fun.  We met the Science Wizard and she helped us to make helicopters.

Lots of adults joined us for Science open morning. One of the most popular activities was using a pipette to drop food colouring into milk and watch as the colours mixed.

Nessa the tortoise really enjoyed her visit too!!!

Snowy Days!!!!!

CELEBRATIONS

This week we celebrated Chinese New Year. We watched

https://www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/watch/chinese-new-year

and talked about some of the celebrations we have at home.

We used chopsticks to pick up noodles.  

Pancakes

We read the story "Mr Wolf's Pancakes". We decided that his neighbours were very rude and unkind.

We made pancakes and ate them at snack time.

YUM YUM!!!!

Lots of parents joined us for Stay and Play, where the focus was on Maths.

In our Maths Meeting, we matched numerals to quantities, counted claps and jumps and counted out objects from a larger group.

In the Finger Strong area we used play dough to make BIG, middle-size and 

little cakes.

In the Creative Area we did junk modelling, using shapes appropriately for the task.

This week we have carried on reading The Three Little Pigs.  We have been using puppets and story visuals to help us re-tell the story using repeated refrains.

We have also been using lots of different construction resources to build houses for the pigs.  We especially enjoyed using Duplo.

Our Talking Table

We looked at illustrations of the "Three Little Pigs".  We recalled some of the main events and talked about the characters. 

We remembered that the big bad wold said, "I'll huff and I'll puff and I'll blow your house down!"

Cooking

We used porridge oats to make flapjacks.  The mixture was very sticky and it was hard work to mix the ingredients.

We ate our flapjacks at snack time and they were delicious.

We have been playing a teddy bear size sorting game on the interactive white board, using our gross motor skills to drag and drop food for the three bears.

You can play the game at home at:

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/Flash.aspx?f=ThreeBears

We've been having lots of messy fun in the Nursery.  We mixed lots of porridge in a tough spot and used our hands to explore the texture. We thought it felt "sticky" and "gloopy".  We used spoons to fill different size bowls with porridge.

This week we have been reading the story of:

Goldilocks and the Three Bears.

If you would like to read the story with your child at home please have a look at this website:

http://playtalkread.scot/ideas/165-goldilocks-and-the-three-bears

You will be able to insert your child's name into the story.

HAPPY READING!!!!!

It's Party Time!!!

Today the Nursery had their Christmas party.  The children ate LOTS of food and had an amazing time.

Someone in a red suit, with a big fluffy white beard came to visit us.  Can you guess who it was?

IT'S SNOWING!!!!!!

Welcome to our new book area.

Rainbows

This half term we have been exploring 

COLOUR

we have had lots of messy fun!!!!!

Welcome to Nursery!

In Nursery we have lots of different adults working with us, helping us to learn and have fun.  

If you would like to see some pictures of our classroom and our most recent work, why not have a look at our school blog.  

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