As the Toddlers have been showing an interest in the bird feeders in the garden we have been making our own ones using shapes cutters and yoghurt pots to hang outside our room window. The Toddlers have been enjoying looking out the window and watching the birds eat their food.
Over the month of March, the preschool children have been eagerly learning about spring. Within learning about spring, the children built a little green house for us to grow our lovely fruit and vegetables in. At the moment it is full of lovely herbs that […]
Here at Rocking Horse have taken a keen interest in the changes in the wildlife at The Figgate Park. We have noticed that there are a lot more geese, ducks and swans in the pond, and that the swans have made a HUGE nest beside the boardwalk to lay their eggs. We will be keeping […]
This week the preschool children have been very busy making lovely Mothers Day cards and gifts. We asked the pre-schoolers what they think their mum’s would like. A lot of children said flowers and a few said bags. So we thought it would be a great idea to make flower shopping bags using the children’s hand prints. […]
Lunch Helpers Today the preschool children helped us to make the cheese and tuna sandwiches for lunch time, to go along side the soup. This helps to encourage the children’s hand-eye coordination, fine motor skills and also the children’s self help skills and independence. The children found this activity great fun and looked forward to […]
This morning the toddlers went on a trip to Build-a-Bear to get some new pyjamas for our room mascots Cookie and Biscuit. The children and Cookie enjoyed watching the fluff that the bears are made of move around in the machine and also listening to all the different sounds that the bears could make.
Beanies Climbing Fun! The Beanies have had lots of fun climbing up the slide in the garden. So off we went to the play park in The Figgate Park to provide more challenging opportunities for the children to climb. We climbed up the stairs and cargo nets to go down the slide. This allowed us to […]
Today the preschool children at Rocking Horse took part in a ‘Clean up Scotland’ at The Figgate Park. The children got suited and booted with their wellies and their tabards and set off to The Figgate Park in search of litter! The children walked around half of the park […]
In the Beanie Room we provide a cosy area for Heuristic play, this area consists of a large number of objects and receptacles, some of which are reused materials which the children can play with freely, with no adult intervention.
During the month of January, the preschool children have been learning all about Robert Burns. This topic then turned into learning about Scotland. We have visited The National Museum of Scotland and discovered Scottish history and artefacts. A main part of learning about Robert Burns has been reading Scottish books such as Fairy tales in […]