Our trip to the vets

 

We have been taking an interest in animals lately and have changed our house into a vets.  We arranged a trip to Northvets which has helped us to make our space even more exciting.  We were all very good whilst walking up to the vets.  When we got there, Gemma one of the veterinary nurses showed us around and told us lots about what they do at the surgery.  

 

 

First we had a look in the consulting room where the animals first go to be seen by the vet.  We saw the table that the animals sit on and were surprised to learn that vets use stethoscopes the same as doctors. 

 

 

Many of us tried out the scales to see how much the numbers moved. 

 

 

Next, we went to the room where the vets store all the medicines and have their machines for checking the animals blood.  We got to see how they worked and what some of the medicines looked like.

 

In the morning, we peeped inside the treatment room and got to see a dog having its teeth brushed.  

 

In the afternoon, we were able to go into the operating theatre and x-ray room to have a look at all the different equipment that is used.  

 

 

We were so excited to see the cat and dog kennels.  We were lucky enough to see some cats, dogs and rabbits whilst we were at the vet.  

 

 

Finally we had a little look around the main entrance at all of the posters, leaflets and things that people can buy at the vets.  We asked all sorts of questions and found out that they have never had any lions at the vet but they have had snakes, tarantulas, monkeys and tortoises as well as a small pony!  We thought it was very funny that a horse would fit inside the vets!  Gemma and the others at the vet were very kind and gave us all sorts of things to take back to school with us to put in our own vets.  We have added medicine bottles, syringes, leaflets, bandages, photos, x-rays, posters and a whole lot more.  Thank you to everyone at Northvet for letting us come up and have a look around.  We had a wonderful time.

Cloud Dough

As an alternative to sand, we had a go at making some cloud dough.  It is the most simplest recipe to follow - flour and baby oil!  The children very carefully measure out the flour then added the baby oil.  It was really sticky at first but when we had it all mixed together, it was silky smooth and crumbly to play with.  We loved it and explored it the whole day.  The children quickly noticed that it can be squashed together and it keeps it shape until you crush it up!  We spent a lot of time making walls and snow balls!

Daisy the Cow

We have had Daisy the Cow in nursery this week. We have been finding out about where milk comes from and what we can use it for. We have been milking Daisy which was hard work.

 

We have also been finding out that you make ice-cream from milk and cream. Crantit Dairy very kindly gave us pictures and information about how they make their ice-cream. We also got some ice-cream from them to eat for our snack, mmm! as one pupil said 'the ice-cream was delicious'.

 

 

 

Thank you to Helga for taking in Daisy for us and to Crantit Dairy for the information and the ice cream.

 

 



Our first few weeks in Nursery and Preschool

Hi everyone, it has taken a few weeks but we are finally up and running!  We have had a wonderful beginning to the new term.  All of the children are settling beautifully with the preschool children helping to look after the new children.  We have been spending most of our time getting to know each other and exploring all areas of the nursery.  Here are some photos of some of the things we have been up to.

We made some playdough on the first day of term and have been exploring all the different resources that we have for the playdough. 

 

We have been very creative at the craft area exploring the paint, glue and junk.  We were very intruiged with colour mixing - check our our pictures on our wall the next time you are in the nursery.

 

 We have been using lots of different materials to make lots of marks in.

We have been talking about baking a lot and have been pretending that we were making buns using flour and exploring the coloured rice with bun cases and baking equipment.  We have also been doing a lot of baking and cooking role play in our house. Some of us decided to make buns for snack one day too. 

There has been a lot of teamwork and problem solving happening in the building site.  We have also been developing our tidying up skills here too!

 

We have spent a lot of time outside each day exploring the tyres, boat, house and other areas in our wonderful garden.  We noticed one day that our tatties were ready so dug them up and then made some delicious vegetable soup for our snack. 

 

We have been playing with the trucks and funnels in the sand and water tray and have particularly enjoyed adding colours and scents to our water. 

 

We have been serenading all the grown ups in the nursery with beautiful tunes throughout the session, the cymbals and drums being firm favourites!

We have been changing the house into a vets this week and have been talking about animals and farms a lot over the past few weeks.  We have also been building and painting our own tractor to play in.  We have been on many exciting adventures on it including going to the beach and jungle.  We are going to be going up to the vets for a visit next week to help us develop our vets area further.