A huge welcome to all of our new boys and girls who came to nursery for the first time last week!

A big welcome back to all the boys and girls who came back to see us again too.

What a busy first week back we had!
We thought you might like to see some of the many things we got up to during the week.

Many of us had great fun exploring the house corner. 

We were busy making cups of tea and soup. 

We also went in our car to the shops as we needed more shopping!

We enjoyed exploring the water tray too. 

Lots of us investigated pouring and filling. Many of us enjoyed playing with the boats too.

We had lovely new sand in the sand tray. 

Lots of us loved the feeling of the soft sand on our fingers. 

We investigated and explored the different containers. 

We were busy filling and emptying the containers and we were all keen to pour too.

We enjoyed trying different foods during our snack time. 

We were busy learning about our new snack routines too.

We follow the arrows to help us wash our hands, collect our plate and cup and then to pour our milk or water.

When we have finished our snack we were remembering to put our plate and cup away to be washed.

We were busy exploring the outdoor area at nursery. 

Many of us had fun keeping fit on the trikes and the scooters.

The Playdough table was very popular so we have more out this week too.

We had lots of budding 'Great British Bake Off' competitors who were busy making lots of cakes.

We enjoyed exploring the musical instruments and many of us were keen to play with the new nursery bells. We discovered to make them work, we need to hit a button on the top.

More outdoor fun while the sun is still shining!

Some of the boys and girls stayed in nursery for their first whole day.

They were busy learning about their new lunchtime routines.

Here some of the children are enjoying their first ever school dinner, yum yum.

Last Day of Term: Teddy Bear's Picnic at the Earl's Palace in Birsay and a wee play on the beach.

First we had some parachute games before we headed down to the beach before the tide came in!

 We had fun on the sand and the sun shone for us!

 We made sandcastles

 We found treasures and collected materials from the beach

 We paddled in the sea

 We buried things, including ourselves!!

We made a big art picture of a Mermaid, just like Mr Maker

We all had super fun, building, climbing, playing, splashing, creating and laughing!

 

Next we went back to the Earl's Palace for our picnic and to find our teddy bears.

Teddy Bears picnic

 Next we read 'We're going on a bear hunt' and everyone joined in with the actions

To end our day we all had a bear hunt for our own teddy bears in the Palace.

I think everyone had a super day and there will be lots of sleepy bairns in Stromness tonight!

 

Have a super holiday to everyone and we look forward to seeing everyone in August

Over and Out!!

 

We've been busy outside in the sunshine doing some 'Messy Art'. Here we are painting footprints with welly boots, making big pictures and using different materials.

It's been a very busy few weeks in nursery and we thought you might like to see some of the many things that we have been up to!

 

We have been very interested in Castles.

 

Here many of us are helping to make the castle for us to play in.

 

 We helped to raise money for the international water aid charity 'Just a Drop'

To help raise money lots of us came to nursery dressed in blue.

Many of us had our face painted too!

Many of us also took part in the 'Just a Drop' competition.

We drew pictures inside the water drop.

We thought about water and drew pictures about what water meant to us.

 

 As part of the Folk Festival we went to see the group called 'Family Atlantica'

 We listened as they showed us musical styles from Africa and Latin America.

 We had great fun joining in and dancing to the beat!

 

 Here are many of us receiving our certificates from Mr McIntosh for taking part in our Welly Waddle.

 

A huge well done to all of the boys and girls who took part.

 The sponsor money keeps coming in and a huge thank you to everyone who sponsored us too.

We hope to let you all know the final total very soon!

On Wednesday we went on a Welly Waddle!

By taking part in this Welly Waddle we all helped to raise money for the Scottish Cot Death Trust.

 

It was great fun!

 

 

Here we all are getting ready to go! Time for the Welly Waddle to begin!

 

 

It was the perfect day for a Welly Waddle.

Well it was raining and there were certainly plenty of puddles to be found!

 

It wasn't long before we found our first little puddle to splash in!

 

 

We walked along the shore path.

Lots of us were interested to see the boats and lots of us were interested to see the many slugs too.

We even saw a speed boat and Mrs McIntosh found a hairy caterpillar.

 

 

Soon we found an even bigger puddle!

Like the story 'Going on a Bear Hunt' we couldn't go over it, we couldn't go under it so oh no, we had to go through it!

 

 Soon it was time for a photograph or two!

It was time to smile and shout 'Welly Waddle'

 

 

Soon we found the biggest puddle we had ever seen!

 

We couldn't resist a bit more puddle jumping!

 

Lots of this puddle came back to the nursery with us!

 

 

Then it was time to go back to the nursey for our snack and our Welly Boot Song!

 

A huge thank you to everyone who came with us and for all your support and sponsor money that we have received so far.

 

We have now started to plant in the soil in the nursery beds.

 

We have planted eight strawberry plants.

We are hoping that they grow lots of strawberries and we can have them at our snack time!

 

 

We have planted some tattie seed too!

This week we have been really busy preparing our raised beds in the garden area outside.

 

 We had to dig the soil. It was hard work!

 Lots of us were busy looking for weeds. We had to try and take out the weeds and their roots.

 Lots of us were keen to find worms while we were digging!

 

We found so many worms that we have made a Wormery to have in the nursery!

Lots of us were keen to hold the worms and are excited to watch what they do inside our new wormery!