Madras Family Centre

The children have been exploring money looking at the different colours shapes and sizes some children where able to identify the names of some of the coins

While exploring in the blocks the children enjoyed using the Kapla blocks to create “hotels”. There were lots of discussions about where the hotels were built “America” and “Barrhead”.

Thank you to everyone who came along to celebrate Grandparents Day. We hope you had lots of fun exploring the learning environments with your grandchild.

We have been using technology to explore numbers. We have been using the smart board to count, identify and recognise numerals 0-50

This week in the Home Corner we have loved caring for our babies, we’ve been taking them ‘to the shops’ which has led to conversations about which shops we’ve visited before 💭✨👶🏻🛒 #roleplay #environmentalprint

We have been exploring shapes for Maths Week. The children have been experimenting with how they fit together to build homes for the insects and animals. @mathsweek.scot

The Saplings have enjoyed exploring the change of seasons where we collected items from our nursery garden for our collage pictures. #Learningthroughplay #creativity

We have had lots of exciting things happening for group play. Some of us have been conducting science experiments. Some of us have been drawing characters from stories that we’ve listened to and some of us have been developing our gross motor skills #welovetobetogether

We have been exploring symmetry in the creative area this week. We have enjoyed creating symmetrical pictures using paint and folding paper🎨.

The children have shown an interest in building and making ramps from tubes, wooden planks and more. They explored the speed of the toy cars as they built the ramps taller, the car went faster. They then watched videos on famous buildings being complete like the Statue of Liberty! #building #blocks

During group play the children enjoyed using the Muga to develop their gross motor skills through running , jumping ,stretching and crawling

Children in the Willow room enjoyed listening to the Monkey Puzzle story. They used finger puppets to retell the story and were able to share their thoughts when making predictions. 🐒🦜🐍

The children in Madras have been exploring Autumn colours while developing their mark making skills. A provocation was set up to promote writing, using hand-eye coordination and identifying letters in the letter tree. They have loved it! 🍂 🤎 #markmaking #creativity #autumn #learning #ELC

We have been mark making, we loved the paint. We used paint brushes and explored with our hands creating some amazing pictures.

This week we have been having ‘birthday parties’ in the home corner, which has included some ‘face painting’! We have absolutely loved using different brushes to paint each other’s faces, so much fun 🥰🎉🎨 #roleplay #creativityandimagination

We had ‘Rose Dough’ today! We all worked together to cut up the petals, leaves and stems ✂️ We made so many different things! We had lots of birthday cakes with candles on them, and we loved rolling the playdough to see the petals mixed inside it! We loved the smell too 🌹✨ #sensoryplay

We had lots of sensory fun with some ‘Sand Dough’ today 🏝 We loved making sea shell cupcakes, and sand pizzas! We discussed how the dough felt, with some children saying “it’s cold”, “it feels like the beach”, and “it’s a little rough” 💭

We have been using the loose parts in a variety of ways this week ✨ Creating our own art, following various lines, and developing our numeracy skills 👌🏼👏🏻 #looseparts #finemotorskills #transientart

It has been lovely welcoming some new children to Madras and our returning children have been so supportive of their new friends. This week we have been discussing our rights and responsibilities in the Family Centre while creating our Nursery Charter.

We have loved exploring the story of The Wizard of Oz! We have been retelling the story, playing with the characters, and making our own yellow brick roads! ✨🌈🧱📚 #literacyskills #collaborativeplay #creativityandimagination

We have been learning all about children’s rights and the UNCRC. This month we have been focusing on “Article 31” you have the right to play and relax. The children have enjoyed sharing their thoughts on what the right to play means.

The boys are girls have enjoyed exploring our Finger Gym this week! Developing our fine motor skills in a variety of ways 👌🏻🤏🏻 Look at the amazing concentration faces 👀🧠✨

The children had lots of fun exploring the woodland area. They collected sticks, stones and leaves to create transient art. “That’s me. I’m using two stones for my eyes”. 🌿🍁

We have been developing our fine motor skills the last couple of days doing some cross stitching 🧵 We have had to be very safe whilst using the needles, and really concentrate when threading them through the aida! We have made some lovely creations 🥰🌈

We loved playing in the sand!

We found some sharks, so the children used their imagination to build a pond to keep the them in and added some fish! We then used the board to count the fish. 🐟 It was so fun!

We have loved playing with our Imaginative House this week! We have created a variety of families, scenarios and have even had some animals invade the house! So much lovely language, imagination and creativity used 🥰✨🏡💭

We are very lucky to have such wonderful areas to explore and learn around our nursery! We have loved having fun in the sun recently.. climbing, running, balancing and even swinging! ☀️🌳👣 #outdoorplay #grossmotorskills #challenge

Look at how creative we have been recently! Using our imagination to draw, cut and create different things ✨✏️✂️🎨 #creativeplay #imagination

During group play we went into the forest. We loved using the wobbly walk and the hammock. At the end we had a fire and the boys listened carefully and stayed safe. Well done everyone!