This morning at welcome time the children sang days of the week and our weather song.  The children took turns to tell us what the weather was like as they came to nursery and what they had to wear.  Mrs Blain then told the children about the adult led activities that would be taking place in both rooms.

Mrs Blain was supporting the children to spell their name.  The letters were in a variety of shapes and then the children were asked to identify the letters and the shape they were in, the children can describe the properties of the basic shapes and some children can confidently describe the properties of a pentagon, hexagon and octagon.

Snack today was oatcakes,melon and apple with a choice of milk or water.

In the creche room Mrs Brown was assisting the children to make cloud number pictures.  The children were identifying the number on their cloud and then glue down the correct amount of raindrops.  Some of the boys and girls are really good at recognising numbers up to 15.

We also had Lego, sensory soapclouds, hairdressers and article small world play out.

We also had a visit from Louise from Child's mile who played a game about smiles.  The children looked at cards with only the smile visible and had to guess who the smile belonged to.

At together time the children made a large circle and took turns to hold wool to create large shapes.  This helped the children to see how many edges and corners they have and if the edges are the same size.

The children then voted for the last Julia Donaldson story they wanted to hear.  The children voted for "the snail and the whale".  Now we have read 6 Julia Donaldson stories the children will be doing book reviews next week and a graph to see which was the favourite.

Have a good weekend.

This morning the boys and girls were very lucky to have a visit from a local police officer, Richard.  Richard discussed road safety and stranger danger.  The children practised crossing the road at a zebra crossing and if a stranger approaches them to STOP and TELL.  Orlaidh could tell the police officer that a stranger is "someone you don't know".  The children also showed Richard our floor book and he was very impressed by how much the children knew about the police.  The children then took turns to try on the police hat and handcuffs.

Snack today was wholemeal bagels with cheese spread and cucumber with a choice of milk or water.  The children are making great progress serving their own snack and spreading their cheese spread.

All the children took turns to answer a question for our new floor book topic, Weather.  Mrs Blain asked "what is weather?"  We had some great answers; clouds, rain, sun, snow, storms, wind and hailstones.  Erica said "the rain comes from the clouds I think its going to rain later because the sky is grey."

Most of the boys and girls used popoids to make a variety of models and then used the tablet to take pictures of their fantastic creations to record their experience.

At physical time the children had a cloud race.  The boys and girls used straws to blow cotton wool all they way to the finish line.  Well done to Kai who was very fast.  We then used feathers and were blowing them to find out all about the wind and forces.

At story time we read "Rosie's hat", which is another story by Julie Donaldson and also suited our weather topic.