Spring Challenge

The children have been challenged to decorate a hard boiled egg or make a model with a Spring theme and take these into nursery before the end of term to share with the other children. Here are photos of some of the creations taken in so far. Well Done they are just super! Loo forward to sharing some more next week... 

Shopping Trip and Outdoor Play

March 2015
Some of our children have been role play shopping in the nursery. Last Friday they went along to the Co-op to buy some things we needed for snack. They are very good at shopping and remembered to pick up everything they were sent to buy. Well Done to all that went along.

There has been lots of fun with the bubbles in the Nursery Garden. We are preparing our garden for Spring Time and are excited to see that the bulbs we planted during Autumn are growing flowers now. Next week we will have a spring clean outside as our bikes and other play equipment are looking very dirty and muddy. Look out for pictures of us helping clean up the garden before the holidays.

World Book Day - Thursday 5th March 2015

Today (Monday) Children have been issued with their World Book Day tokens. When you get your book token, all you need to do is to take it to the Orcadian Book Shop and swap it for one of the ten £1 World Book Day Books available! The three £1 books appropriate for age range 2-5 years are:

More information about tokens, resources and activities are available at World Book Day website.

We have managed to get a copy of the 3 books for the nursery and these are now in the parent waiting area. Please feel free to have a look at them with your children before deciding which one they would like to use their voucher to buy.

We have been working with the Primary 4's and 5's to create a Story Book of our own. They have started by creating and illustrating their characters, and they are going to write short stories using the characters for their book on Thursday. Look out for the exclusive edition of their book which will be on display in the parent waiting area next week.

Obstacle Course Fun

The past few weeks during Hall Time the children have been designing and participating in their own obstacle courses. We have been balancing, jumping, walking, hopping and crawling, over and under various obstacles.  Here are a few photos of them having fun being active indoors:

                     

Scottish Children's Book Awards 2015

Since coming back after the Christmas holidays, we have been participating in the Scottish Children's Book Awards.  We read three winning books for 2014/2015:

 

 

We have undertaken many tasks as we read each book and have finally voted for our favourite book with Robot Rumpus coming in first place with 29 votes.  Check out our own robots that we planned, designed and created!

 

Snow Fun!

We have been enjoying every minute of the 'snow' over the past few days and have been out as often as we could.  Some of us were brave enough to go out in the heavy snow and were trying to catch the huge snowflakes.  We were trying to work out where they were disappearing to after they landed on us. 

 

Once the snow had settled for a bit we did a lot of investigating with it.  We realised that we could melt it using the water from our water butt.  We could change the colour of it by using the food colouring.  By pushing it into the kitchen containers, we realised that we could mould the snow into different shapes and created our own snow café outside.  Some of us even experimented with mixing the snow and sand for some fabulous slop for our café!   

 

Inside we made some lovely soft playdough using cornflour and conditioner.  We realised this looked a bit like the snow outside and we even managed to make some snowballs and snowmen with it.

 

 

With the amount of wet weather that we have had, our garden is very muddy!  We have been intrigued with our footprints in the mud as well as in the snow this week.  We decided to try out some footprint art in the nursery and what fun we had!  We realised that it was very slippy to do this too and practised some skating at the same time!!