This week we were busy planning our next steps to develop our Outdoor Area!

The children were asked what they like to do outside.

They could all share some super ideas.

Many of the children like to balance, run, play with water, build and even be super heroes outside!

Once the children had shared their ideas of what they like to do, we were ready for the next even more exciting part!

Catherine Diamond visited us with some very excited suitcases. 

When we opened them they were full of little loose parts!

They had little pieces of nets, little bits of trees, kitchen foil, sand, twigs and much more...

 In small groups, the children were given a small tray.

Inside they used the small parts to create their ideal outdoor area!

They had excellent ideas and created some really super outdoor environments.

A campfire and a Water Pump were talked about often!

We are busy making a floor book.Once our floor book of the children's ideas is completed we will be ready for the next stage, designing and developing our area!

Exciting stuff!

Here's some more pictures from last week.

As we continued to follow the children's interest in the weather and seasons we tried out a new style of painting!

We painted with 'Paintstickles'!

They were really easy to make.

We popped the paint in some ice cube trays, popped in half a lollipop stick and put them in the freezer.

We were excited to see what had happened.

As we painted the 'Paintstickles' melted!

We had great fun and they created lots and lots of discussion.

The children are keen to paint with these another day.

More loose parts fun outside!

Lots of opportunities to design and be curious!

We decided to create ramps to run and walk down.

Then we wanted to put tryes at the bottom so we could jump too!

Just what we all need for the weather in Orkney!

Here we are dressed for all types of weather on the same day!

As well as investigating the cold weather and Ice, we spoke about hot, tropical places too.

We explored the playdough with tropical umbrellas, deck chairs and people.

Leaf Fun!

We had great outdoor learning fun with lots and lots of leaves!

We investigated the different colours and leaf shapes.

We drew around ourselves and made leaf people too!

But best of all.....We enjoyed throwing the leaves high in the air!

We enjoyed throwing them up and running fast through them!

This lead to lots of discussion about the different seasons, climates and weather.

This week, we explored Ice in the water tray.

We explored the different cold water animals that live in the ice.

On our tough spot we made a tropical island!

We explored the grass with our magnifying glasses.

Then many of us enjoyed playing with the tropical, hot animals.

We added water to the sand and we liked to splash the pebbles in the water.

We helped to make some changes to our house corner!

We added lots of different clothes.

We added some clothes that we need in Winter and some clothes that we might wear on a warmer day in the Summer.

We have really enjoyed trying on a variety of outfits this week.

What super play we have had in the house area this week!

What a fun day we had in the nursery on Friday the 13th of November.

Look at some of our bumble bees, don't they look cosy.

Lots of us wore of pyjamas to nursery of Friday for Children in Need.

Children in Need fun in the Art Room too.

Many of us had fun with the coloured maize.

We were very busy adding spots to Pudsey.

All of the morning session boys and girls visited the hall.

We went through to watch the super P5 Children in Need Assembly.

We were all little stars!

We did super sitting and excellent listening. Well Done everyone!

Some of the entertaining assembly. Well Done P5. What a fantastic assembly.

They even wrapped up some of the teachers! Well Done to the teachers for being such good sports!

Then it was time to go back to the nursery.

What better snack could we have had than hot chocolate and marshmallows!

While enjoying our snack we watched a bedtime story.

Here we are getting our penny Pudsey ready for the big day.

Lots of the children help to paint him yellow.

Then they decided he needed some collage materials added too.

Time to raise some money for Children in Need.

Thank you to everyone who donated and added some pennies to our Pudsey.

Another busy week in the nursery!

Here's a little peep at some of the many things we have been getting up to

We had great fun making our own firework bottles today.

We poured and measured the water in to the bottles through a funnel.

Then many of us decided to add food colouring. We dropped it in using a pipette. 

This made us work lots of little muscles in our fingers!

Many of us wanted to add in glitter too.

Then it was time to pop on the lids and shake our fireworks!

We had great fun painting in the art room this week!

We enjoyed painting on the tables, using scrappers to make patterns and even painted ourselves!

Some of us enjoyed exploring and investigating our new post boxes!

We were busy making our own bonfires outside this week too.

We wanted to use twigs, sand and leaves to make our bonfires.

The children wanted to add red and yellow flames too.

We had a visit from the dental nurses too.

It was time for our flouride varnish.

Look at how cool we all look wearing our special glasses!

Welcome back to Term Two.

What a busy first week back we all had!

We enjoyed making our chocolate dipped apples in our small groups on Friday.

First we dipped the apples in the chocolate. Next we dipped the apple in to the sprinkles.

They looked delicious. 

When they were ready to eat, we all took them home for a special treat after or lunch or tea!

We had some very unusual looking children in the nursery on Friday!

Look very carefully and you might recognise some of them!

Well Done to all of the children who dressed up.

We hope they are all back to normal by Monday!

Many of us had lots of fun decorating the pumpkins with Play Doh!

Many of us enjoyed this so much that on Friday we painted our pumpkins and some of the children wanted to stick and glue paper and materials on too.

We had some very fancy looking pumpkins in the nursery.

We were busy making magic potions too!

The children drew their magic ingredients, saying the magic work as they dropped them into the cauldron.

I wonder if some of our magic potions worked?

Painting with Broomsticks!

Very messy but oh what fun we had!

We used the broomsticks to paint on paper and pumpkins.

Our last week in Term One!

Where has the time gone?

We hope you all have a super October holiday! 

We look forward to seeing you all back in the nursery again very soon.

We were very busy using our senses in the tough spot this week!

There were lots of different ingredients to smell using our noses!

Many of us tried using a pestle and mortar for the first time too.

We uses our eyes and the magnifying glasses to investigate the different herbs and spices.

Our term ended with a very special surprise visitor!

We had lots of very excited children as we looked inside the box.

Peep, it was a frog!!

We released him back in to the pond.

We carried him back to his home in a cardboard box.

Then we waited and watched as he did a huge jump and a splash into the pond!