Chain Road, Creetown, Newton Stewart, DG87JR
We have recently started our new PE focus of gymnastics and this week we explored different balances. We practised balancing on lots of different body parts and found that some balances were a lot trickier than others! Once we had learned some new balances, we worked in pairs to create a sequence, linking five different balances with a range of rolls and floor movements from previous weeks.
Recently P5-7 have been creating some Scottish art in the run up to Burns Night. We created our own tartan then painted silhouettes to go on top to make some very bonnie pictures!
We have also been looking at colour palettes and created design backgrounds for a Scottish product based on the products colour palette. We had to make 4 different backgrounds, and they have turned out very effective. Well done P5-7!
Mrs McClymont has been helping us learn about materials. In previous weeks we learned what a material is and what words we might use to describe them (the properties). This week we were sorting bags of objects by their properties. We talked about opposite pairs – rough or smooth / hard or soft / rigid or flexible / transparent or opaque / waterproof or absorbent.
Bonjour!
We have worked on describing the weather in French. We played snap and connect 4, and took turns at being the teacher to introduce phrases to our groups.
This month our health & wellbeing focus in nursery is being ACTIVE! We are active every day both inside and outside. The children love building obstacle courses outside and working together to make sure they are safe as well. We have also had our gym equipment outside this week.
In our hall time this week, the nursery children talked about and learned some Scottish dancing. Miss White taught us some highland dancing which we were very good at, and we also practised some country dancing in a circle with our friends.
We also listened to a Scottish band and thought about what instruments we could hear: “bagpiper” “drumkit” “violin” “accordion”. We then watched a video to see what all of these instruments looked like.
This week in science we have been learning all about materials. We have learned to classify natural and manmade (synthetic) materials and discussed examples of these. After this we went outdoors to hunt for different objects in the playground and identified what kind of materials these objects were made from.
After being introduced to our Scots poems for the year, this week as part of our writing lesson we tried to create some Scots texts of our own. We began by discussing what Scots words we already knew and then had a go at changing some well-known nursery rhymes into Scots. Once we were confident using and understanding some Scots words, we wrote a description about ourselves titled ‘Me Masel’. Miss Milroy was very impressed with our work and thinks our writing will look great displayed beside our collaborative class painting of Robert Burns.
ELC children have had lots of fun decorating trees inside and out.
We have all learned about the story of baby Jesus, and Mary & Joseph through role play and our daily advent calendar.
We created lots of wonderful Christmas art.
Merry Christmas everyone!
We played lots of games and sang some action songs:
When we got back in to the nursery we had a tasty party snack!
Reindeer Pokey
(Hands on top of head like antlers)
You put your antlers in,
your antlers out,
in, out, in , out & shake them all about,
You do the reindeer pokey and you turn around,
That’s what it’s all about, SEE!
Oh reindeer pokey cokey,
Oh reindeer pokey cokey,
Oh reindeer pokey cokey,
knees bent, arms stretched,
RA RA RA!
Then: Right hooves in/out
Left hooves in/out
Little tail in/out
Red nose in/out
