Many of us have been busy settling back into the nursery routines and have enjoyed helping all our new boys and girls explore and investigate the areas of the nursery too.

We loved visiting the Challenger Bus too.

We had great fun singing the songs and playing the musical instruments.

We had a super time with the puppets too and really enjoyed the story of the good shepherd and his lost sheep. 

The Friday morning nursery visited the Play, Talk and Read Bus.

We were all very excited to climb on board the purple bus!

 We loved singing on the purple bus and enjoyed making the five wee monkeys jump on the bed!

 

We have had a very busy first two weeks in the nursery.

We have been using our new blue plates and cups for our snack.

We are all expert pourers in nursery!

We have been pouring our own milk and water into our new blue cups.

 

 

We have been busy baking too!

We have been learning to mix, pour and stir all our ingredients together.

When we had finished we got to eat our delicious custard. Yummy!!

 

 

What do you want to be when you grow up?

What a brilliant day we have had today.  The children were so excited to be showing their costumes to their friends.  We had firefighters, policemen, doctors, nurses, vets, a mummy, a ballet dancer, a golfer, batman, Peppa Pig, a digger driver, farmers, a pirate, a dog walker, princesses, a builder, Indiana Jones, a gym teacher and a footballer!  See if you can spot them all below!  From the sponsor money that the children have taken in so far, over £400 has been raised for Save the Children.  Well done everyone for taking part.

Lots of visitors this week!

We created a new reading/quiet corner this week and have been enjoying listening to and reading stories.  Some of us have been taking our babies over from the house to read to them too.  We like having some relaxing music over here so that we can have some chill out time in the busy nursery. 

We have been continuing with developing our balancing skills in the hall and have really enjoyed trying out all of the different balancing equipment. We are getting more confident each week.

We have been missing our stage this week so we decided that we would build our own with the blocks.  We worked really well together as a team and gave the grown ups a lovely performance.

 We are still enjoying learning about the properties of shapes as we use shapes to make pictures on the SMARTBoard and make gluey pictures with shapes.

 We were presented with a teamwork challenge this week where we had to get every child in the nursery across our nursery playground without anyone touching the tarmac.  We excelled in this working really well together as a team, using all of the loose materials that we could find to build a structure to get us safely across.  We then helped each other to get across safely.  As well use leadership, teamwork and building trust, we were learning how to take risks safely.  The grownups were so impressed with how we managed this task.

 

We are very interested in dinosaurs at the moment so were delighted to find sand and dinosaurs in our sensory tray.  As we began digging we found lots of bones!  Can you imagine, dinosaur bones in the nursery??!!

To build on this, Sandra came to visit us.  She is a ranger for the SNH and she shared some photos with us of archaeologist on digs around Orkney.  She spoke to us about how we find out about things in the past such as how dinosaurs lived. She showed us some examples of bones, necklaces, pins and potter that have been found then let us borrow some of her trowels to see if we could find these things in our sand tray. 

We took advantage of the nice weather this week.  We put on our waterproofs and had lots of fun with water outside. 

We were very creative with our blocks, building a great big aeroplane with enough seats for everyone to go on holiday!

We also had a visit from Louise and Patsy from the Library.  They were here to give us all our Bookbug Pirate packs.  The read 'Peace at Last' and sang some songs with us.  We particularly loved when they took out the big Lycra and we sent some teddies to the moon!

Ho Ho Ho...Christmas in March??!

Christmas and Santa has been a popular topic in the nursery this week with many of the children wrapping presents for each other, using their writing skills as they practise writing each others names.

We were also practising our names using the sensory trays.  Some of us used them to make a plan of what we were going to do in work time.

We have had some interest in castles this week making them with the stones and the large building blocks.  

 

We have had some very poorly children in the nursery this week so have had to call in some doctors and nurses to help us make them better.

Our waterproofs are home!  Thank you to William Shearers for helping us to get these brilliant two piece suits for the children.  We loved wearing them on the snowy day.

We had cooked spaghetti in our sensory tray this week to practise our scissor skills.  Some of us weren't very keen on the texture of it!

We have continued exploring shapes this week by going on a shape walk to find as many shapes as we could around the school and by making some shape pictures.

 

We made dens outside using our large logs, some washing line, clothes pegs and our fancy material. 

We had great fun running under it as the fabric blew in the wind.

We have been using Google Earth to find our houses.  A lot of us were having a look to see if we could see anyone inside our houses!

 We finished our week up by dressing up in red for Red Nose Day.