This month Shirley’s group has been working on shape recognition with shapes with more sides, ie. Pentagon, hexagon, heptagon, octagon, nonagon and decagon. They have also been practicing addition using dots on the dice, and counting how many dots there were all together. They have also been developing recognition of numbers using their fingers and […]
This month the Dragonflies have been talking about farms! We have created some beautiful artwork of some tractors and other machines using different materials. We used chickpeas, green peas, mud and other things too. We have also been discussing the role of the farmer, and what happens on the farm. We then decided to take […]
At the start of November we were discussing the story of guy fawkes and bonfire and fireworks night. As the children had taken an interest we used forks to make fiery pictures we also added little bits of wood to create the wood for our lovely bonfire pictures. We also made some awesome fire work […]
At the start of November we were discussing the story of guy fox and bonfire and fireworks night. As the children had taken an interest we used forks to make fiery pictures we also added little bits of wood to create the wood for our lovely bonfire pictures. We also made some awesome fire work […]
Dragonflies have had a great month learning lots of new things. Continuing on from April the children were still very interested in the human body and how it works. We done a very messy experiment to make our own poo! We used wheetabix, coffee, orange juice and tights. We used the tights as intestines for […]
Dragonflies have been extremely busy this month. Some of our children went a visit to Harelaw Equestrian farm to collect chick eggs. We have the eggs safely in our incubator and are expecting 6 out of the 7 eggs to give us baby chicks on the 10th of April. We have been looking at lots […]
This month in the dragonfly room we took part in our nursery Olympic games. We had lots of events that took place. We had a bike race, javelin, gymnastics, running races, athletics, a wheelbarrow race, a sack race and even a boat race! We set up 1st, 2nd and 3rd podiums outside in our front […]
This month in pre-school we have been very excited about our eggs that have been hatching into chicks. We have been learning about their life cycle and how we care for them. We know that the eggs are kept in the incubator to keep them warm. The children have had the opportunity to bring the […]
Pre- school made lovely cards for Mother’s day using our handprints to make flowers. We also made pasta jewelry for our Mum’s. We then wrote in our cards what we like best about our Mum’s. We went on a treasure hunt in the garden as we have been very interested in pirates. We wrapped tin […]
Pre-School have had lots of fun learning about Chinese New Year, we learnt which animal was celebrated for each child’s birth year. We made lanterns for setting off up into the sky and also had some sweet and sour chicken with noodles and prawn crackers. We have also been busy up-cycling our crayons putting them […]