Today Emily from child smile visited the children at Rocking Horse Nursery. Emily read the Searchers and the Investigators a very interesting Peppa Pig story book about visiting the dentist. Emily explained to us how to brush our teeth properly and also why. Emily brought her friend Harvey with her today, the children each got a chance to brush is […]
This month the children in the Investigator room have been learning all about dinosaurs. The children have enjoyed looking at the different sizes and patterns on dinosaur eggs. We made some frozen dinosaur eggs and the children helped the baby dinosaurs hatch from their ice eggs. This linked with the science subject of the Curriculum for […]
This week the children have been given the choice everyday of where we should go for a walk or trip and what resources to take into the garden. There has been running around at Figgate Park, taking the Aqua doodle outside in the garden (water fun) and a trip and picnic snack at the beach.
Today as part of Lunch the children enjoyed tasting our very own home-grown potatoes that we harvested from our vegetable patch in the garden. The children who have been watering the vegetable plants regularly as one of their Eco school responsibilities, had the job of assisting in the digging, gathering of and cleaning of the potatoes before they were cooked as […]
Today the Explorers have been watching the squirrels and birds in our nursery garden eating the bird food we put out for them. As an activity staff provided the children with the opportunity to make bird cake with lard and bird seed, we then added the mixture into a cylinder to set in the fridge. […]
This morning the Investigators took a trip to Pets At Home at Fort Kinnaird to purchase a new tank for Turbo and cuttle bone, while there we seen rabbits, hamsters, fish, snakes and frogs. Of course we couldn’t go back to nursery without seeing the Dinosaurs that we could hear (their roars were heard from across the […]
Last week, the children at Rocking Horse were out and about at a variety of places. The Explorers took trips to Clown Around, this was a next step within planning from our very own ball pool within the playroom to the much larger play areas at Clown Around. The Searchers took a trip to Musselburgh […]
We would like to say a huge thank you too all children, parents/carers, family and friends and also members of the pubic who gave very generous donations during our fundraising for ‘The Sick Kids Friends Foundation’. Over the last couple of months, we held a bake sale within the nursery. All the yummy delicious treats […]
Today the investigators were given the choice of going for a walk or helping to set our garden plan into action and they choose to stay in the garden and help in the garden improvements with Rebecca and Gillian. We emptied and moved our tyres to create a small world area (these are not finished as we have more […]
We would like to say a big thank you to all of the parents/carers at Rocking Horse Nursery for the donated Sainsbury’s Active Kids Vouchers. Our equipment arrived this week, we received hurdles, a ground stepping ladder, balls and dancing scarfs. We have already been making some creative mini obstacle courses. Obstacle courses encourage the children […]