South Morningside Nursery Newsletter Friday 20th September 2019

Morning Session Tuesday 24^th September – 7.00pm – 8:30pm Curriculum Evening at the Nursery (Details below)
Week beginning Monday 30^th September – Parent consultations Wednesday 2^nd October – 10.30am – 11.30am MacMillan Coffee Morning
Monday 14^th – Tuesday 22^nd October – holiday
28^th October – 10.20am – 11.30am Stay and play at nursery Afternoon Session
Tuesday 24^th September – 7.00pm – 8:30pm Curriculum Evening at the Nursery (Details below)
Week beginning Monday 30^th September – Parent consultations Wednesday 2^nd October – 12.30am – 1.30am MacMillan Coffee Afternoon
Monday 14^th – Tuesday 22^nd October – holiday
28^th October – 12.15pm – 1.30pm Stay and play at nursery

Morning Group:

Children are continuing to enjoy investigating sizes through using different materials to measure. They are looking for different things around the playroom and outdoors to measure and compare using the language shortest, longest, tallest and smallest.

Through discussion with our lovely learners, we have made a few changes to the provision around the nursery. Children have been role playing in the house through using their real-life experiences such as making breakfast, hoovering and looking after the babies and dogs. Children have also asked for a hospital to be created in the other role play area where they are building on their learning about ‘our amazing bodies’ and have been discovering why we need bones through looking at x-rays and listening to stories.

Our lovely learners are continuing to enjoy dance with Louise. They are learning all about personal space so that they have room for their dance moves, different movements and how their body moves as well as balancing and performing.

Afternoon Group:

In the afternoon our lovely learners have enjoyed exploring the nursery and through role play, are showing their understanding of doctors and nurses and how they can help us. They are enjoying our new reading area where they are sharing stories with others and the reading buddies, singing songs and dancing.

The morning children found a frog which they named ‘Freddie’. We showed it to the afternoon children and then had a discussion of the best place to let it loose. Children came up with a goodbye song and watched as Freddie disappeared off looking for his friends.

Every day, Monday through to Thursday, children enjoy a varied snack. This week snack will be:

Mon – Crackers, soft cheese and blueberries

Tues – Breadsticks, houmous and grapes

Wed – Homemade pizza wraps and strawberries

Thurs – Homemade vegetable soup, homemade bread and bananas

Fri – bring own snack

Our Curriculum Evening will be held on Tuesday 24^th September. It will be held in the Nursery and doors will open at 7.00pm. We hope that you can attend as it provides a lovely opportunity to find out more about your child’s time in the Nursery and the various learning experiences they will have. The children’s art canvasses are now on display in the Nursery, please feel free to come in and look. They will be available for you to purchase for a donation of between £5 and £7 with the money being raised to help further develop our nursery environment. Then evening will close at 8.30pm

When we are at Deanbank on a Friday, can you please bring your child to the line and then step back. The playground can be very busy and overwhelming, so we ask that all parents stay back, and we will be out to support them in the line.

Checklist
Have I collected my confirmation of date and time sheet from my information pocket for Parent Consultation appointment?
My child is wearing appropriate clothing for indoors and outdoors
Slippers for indoors and encourage my child to keep the cloakroom area tidy and hazard free.
I am free to play or share a talent in the nursery? Please let a member of staff know.
Remember to check the Parent Information Board and Information pockets.
Read Question of the month, reply and leave comment (found in cloakroom area).
Do I have a blue bag for the Bedtime stories?
Do we have any junk (boxes, yogurt cartons etc) and carrier bags for the nursery?
Returned All About Me sheets
As part of our reporting, the City of Edinburgh Council brought out Developmental Milestones which allows nurseries to see children’s progression over time through Communication, Motor Skills, Relationships and Thinking Skills. Each term we will be looking at a few of these and these will be posted in the newsletter so that if you wish to work on them at home you can.

MORNING Developmental Milestones	Talks fluently in a range of contexts and With a range of people and peers.
Skips, hops and jumps competently.	Follow simple rules in games
Understands the need for rules and fair play.	Chooses own friends.

AFTERNOON Developmental Milestones
Becomes more fluent. Speaks in 4 word sentences or more and talks about past experiences.	Follows simple rules in games.
Loves to play with others and understands taking turns and sharing.	Loves to run and climb and can hop on one foot.
Needs companionship of other children with whom he/she alternately co-operates and is in conflict with but understands the need to argue with words rather than physically. Understand taking turns as well as sharing.