Welcome Back - Term 2

First week back of term 2 has been busy with lots more fun inside and out. Here are a few photos of us enjoying our days at nursery.

We looked at Autumn leaves and trees across at the Peedie Sea paths. 

Our house has been transformed into a school, we have been reading and enjoying mouse's first night at midnight school as part of the Scottish Children's book awards. We love playing hide and seek too!

We used up some of our energy playing in the ballpool.

 

On Friday we had to catch our own snack!

End of Term One

 

What a busy time we have had this last week in nursery. We have had so much fun learning lots of new things this term and now we're ready for our 2 weeks off! See you all back Monday 26th October.

Last Week of Term 1 - Hall, outside, ballpool and glitter!

Selkies - Climbing trees

More brave tree climbers

Loving our Green Sand!

Looking at our folders together


A great big walk, round the peedie sea, past the fire station, wee rest in the library and back to school with peedie tired legs!

Vegetables and Harvest Time.

We have been exploring real fruit and vegetables.

We dug up some tatties and carrots from the vegetable patch in the Nursery Garden.

 

Digging up the vegetables

In the house corner. We've been chopping up carrots, tatties, limes and lemons to see what they look like inside. Some of them are quite hard so we need to be careful when using the knifes. Some of us were brave enough to taste the lemons!

Exploring Real Fruit and Vegetables in the House

  

Sour Lemons

We looked at how farmers use machinery to help them harvest lots of vegetables and crops at the one time. Some of us have been inside a combine harvester before and told our friends all about the machines - They are really big!

Some of us went along to the co-op to look at the kinds of fruit and vegetables they sell.

We took some carrots, parsnips, onions, tatties, sweet potatoes and broccoli back to the nursery.

We looked and talked about the vegetables and chopped them up. We used them to make vegetable soup for our snack, yum!

See my school, Visit my class

We invited our parents to come into nursery to have a play, look around and find out what we like to do when we come to nursery.

We made some banana loaf and lemon drizzle cakes so that the parents could have a nice treat with their tea and coffee.

Baking Banana Loaf

We made some signs to make sure the children didn't go near the hot tea and coffee.

We had fun showing our mum's and dad's all the fun things we get to do at nursery.

We also did some singing and rhymes with our parents before we went home. I think the mum's and dad's were very impressed with our beautiful singing.

Thank you to all the adults who came into visit us, we had lots of fun and hope you come back to play again soon.

A tour of the nursery

We realise that not everyone has had a chance to have a look around the nursery at all the areas that your child may be playing in.  We wanted to add a quick blog to share with you the different areas so that you can chat with your child about where they are playing at nursery after their sessions.  These areas are all developed and changed alongside the children's interest however, the types of areas remain the same. 

House Corner 

 

 Arts and Crafts

 

 Writing area 

 

Music Corner

 

 Construction Area

 

 Small World

 

 Light and Shadow resources

 

 

Water Play

 

 

 

 Sand and Sensory Area

 

  Science/Investigation area (check here for our pet snails and stick insects!) 

 

 Quiet/Resting Area

Our Garden

 

We are very lucky being part of Glaitness School as we have many other areas of the school which we can explore too:

 The Court Yard

 

 The big playground

 

 Sensory Room

 

And usually everyones favourite - Ball Pool!

 

We will be having a coffee morning soon where we will invite everyone in for a play with their child however in the meantime, please feel free to explore the nursery with your child during the 10 minute pick up at the end of the session to discover what your child's interests have been during their session. 

We have some new pets ...

Here are our new Stick Insects! 

The children have really enjoyed taking them out and watching what they do! We had to be very careful with them as they are living creatures, but we did let them crawl all over ourselves.
 
We are enjoying learning how to look after them and have been collecting some fresh leaves the help keep them happy and healthy.

We are working on making a floor book all about our interest in bugs! The first couple of pages are on the wall in the nursery if you want to come in and have a look! We were cutting, gluing and sticking our photos yesterday, as well as drawing our own bugs and looking at information books. We will put it all together once we have found out everything that we want to know.

If you have any suggestions for what we could call the stick insects please comment below . . .