On Friday the whole school celebrated Roald Dahl day. This years theme was 'The Twits'

To celebrate Roald Dahl day and his book the 'Twits' we were very busy looking at this story throughout the week.

We planned lots of exploratory and experimental experiences for the children during our small group time this week.

Mr Twit had lots of disgusting and rotten foods growing in his beard. Yuck!

He even had worms and spaghetti deep inside his beard.

We explored the texture and feeling of the spaghetti on our fingers.

We investigated the Mr Twit Beard Soup too!

We were intrigued to find out about the many different items lurking inside here too!

In our art area we were busy making Mr Twit beards.

Some of us practiced our mark making while some of us were busy cutting using the scissors and sticking with glue.

Look at all of these messy and dirty beards!

 Look out for them when you come into the Nursery on Monday.

 They are all on display for you to see.

Many of us dressed up on Friday.

The morning session popped along to see the P5 class and there fantastic assembly.

Keep looking back at our blog as we will be posting some more pictures of Roald Dahl week fun soon.

Last week we visited the hall where he had great fun!

Here are some of the children very busy practicing and improving their balancing skills.

We love these photos showing the children exploring and problem solving as they find lots of wonderful places to balance and place the hoops!

We had great fun exploring more big outdoor art last week too!

As we were busy preparing the paper for our big art, some of the children started to ride over the paper with the bikes and scooters!

This gave us an excellent idea! Why not paint with the wheels?

The children were keen to explore welly painting too.
We explored the different footprints and patterns we could make when we ran and compared these with when we went slower and slower.

When we were finished if was time to wash our boots.

What better way to wash them than splashing in the cosy, soapy water!

Here are some of our Ladybirds. 

They were very busy during small group time last week too.

Here they are busy creating their super canvas.

They had great fun creating this exploratory piece of art work.

Gloop, Gloop glorious gloop!

Here are some of the ladybirds exploring the clay last week.

Super messy, exploratory fun!

Here are some of the Butterflies enjoying last week's sensory experiences during their small group activities.

Water, cotton wool and glitter play.

More fun in the gloop!

Here is our final canvas in the making!

This week we have all been very busy exploring different materials!

Many of us have been loving all of these new experiences.

In our Key Groups, we have have all been very busy during our small group times.

Here are our busy little Bumblebees exploring the clay!

Lots of messy fun as they strengthen their hands and muscles.

All of the things that help us to get ready to mark make.

Each of our Key groups have created a group canvas!

Here are the Bumblebees creating their yellow art work.

The children loved this exploratory art where they had the freedom to stick on anything that was yellow!

We look forward to displaying these for you all to see very soon.

Now time for some water fun.

Our water tray had cotton wool and glitter for the children to explore this week.

More new experiences as many of the children loved exploring the gloop!

Gloop is made with flour and water and is very sticky!

Here's one of our little caterpillars. 

He is busy making exploring the art area as he creates a canvas for his key group too.

Keep an eye out for what the Ladybird's and the Butterflies have been working on during their small group times this week too.

Welcome back to our Early Learning and Childcare Setting.

We have all had a busy few fun filled weeks. 

We can't quite believe we are nearly at the end of week three already!

Here are a few pictures to show you some of the many things we have been busy learning about.

We have really been enjoying our outside play time. 

Some of our children were using their imaginations and had some super play making Volcanoes using buckets of sand and water.

To further this interest and learning we made Volcanoes outside on our tough spot.

We used baking powder, vinegar and red food colouring to look like lava.

The children had great fun and I think we sent home a few red children!

Following some of the children's interests we had a super visit from the Fire Engine last week. 

The children were able to have a little seat in the Fire Engine and all had great fun spraying the hose in to the pond!

Stromness Fire Fighters to the rescue!

After our visit to the Fire Engine, we set up some Fire Fighter Obstacle Courses in our playground.

Our Fire Fighters were very quick to put out the burning fires.

Many of us are enjoying exploring our science and investigation area too.

Many of the children enjoyed using the magnifying glasses to look very closely at the nursery slugs!

We have been busy exploring our new art area too. 

We have been busy colour mixing with our paints, exploring the clay, painting dinosaur eggs and drawings pictures of ourselves too.

Keep an eye out for more pictures appearing on our blog page soon!

Wow! What a muddy but fantastic way to finish off the year!

We hope you all agree, what a super morning we all had on Friday!

On Friday morning in true nursery tradition, we went on our nursery trip!

This year we decided to visit Binscarth Woods.

Some creatures had been there already as we quickly discovered!

'A mouse took a stroll

through the deep dark wood.

A fox saw the mouse

and the mouse looked good.'

That's right, you've guessed it! Our trip to the woods had a 'Gruffalo' theme.

'Amazing' said the Gruffalo

Busy on the trail! 

Lots of the children were keen to explore and find lots of items on their sheets.

Exploring new places is great fun!

This was the muddiest part!

What good fun many of you had here!

You enjoyed using your nets and buckets in the stream, swinging on the tyre swing and really just getting as muddy as you could!

Mud, Mud, glorious mud.............

We enjoyed our 'Gruffalo' themed snack at the Gruffalo area.

We used the natural materials we could find in the woods to make a super Gruffalo too.

At the snake area, you had great fun playing the snake game and building bike long snakes with the branches.

A massive 'Thank You' to everyone who came on the trip with us.

Without you, we simply couldn't go on a trip like this.

Your support is greatly appreciated.

Now all that's left to say is have a fantastic summer holiday!

Let's hope the sun has got his hat on!

Well what a busy last week in the nursery!

On Tuesday morning it was time for the nursery team to make a final fuss of all of the preschool boys and girls!

We have watched them develop from little people to confident individuals, all ready to leave us and start their next learning journey in Primary One!

How did that happen so quickly?

We will miss them all but wish them good luck and we won't be far away!

It was time for their Graduation to begin!

A big 'Thank You' to Mr McIntosh who joined us for the graduation on Tuesday.

It was time to come up on to the stage and receive their Graduation certificates!

A little tap on the head with the graduation hat and it was time to collect their 'Graduation Goodie Bag'

We hope you all enjoy sharing their learning files with them. 

These are now yours to keep and hold many special memories of their time with us in the nursery!

We had 25 very special people that graduated with us today.

After the graduation ceremony it was time for some 'Champagne' and strawberries nursery style!

A huge 'Thank You' to everyone who joined us and helped to make it a day to remember for us all.

It was time to enjoy our fantastic Graduation cake too! 

Well Done Ladies, you know who you are!

Not only did the cake look fantastic but it tasted amazing too!

A huge goodbye and good luck to all of our boys and girls who are heading off to Primary One.