Ms White – Page 3 – Creetown Primary

In November, the children started to think about recycling or reusing things to “make less rubbish”.

This fell in alongside the COP26 summit, and there were some Education Scotland Dug resources that we explored on the computer at group times.

We tried to think of as many things that we could recycle or reuse as possible. There is a special picture we need to look for to say that we can recycle it.

Almost all of the children recognised these bins when some of us went our community walk.

We made some recycling posters to display and some of us practised our writing for the posters too.

We asked families to start collecting ‘rubbish’ so that we could start junk modelling, but we also experimented with what junk would be fun to use in our water tray.

“cardboard melts” “it’s soft”

We can reuse clothing too as spare clothes in nursery.

(Nov 2021)

15th – 21st Nov 2021 – Road Safety Week

The children were very excited to have some bikes and scooters out. They were able to create their own roads / safe places to walk and consider the safety of the people using the vehicles and the people who were playing in other areas.

They set up a car wash and a garage to keep the vehicles clean, working and fueled up! Some children made their own traffic lights so that the drivers knew when to “stop” “get ready” “go”!

There was lot’s of talk about taking turns and sharing the resources.

The children identified that to be safe when out and about in villages or towns they:

“Look out for cars” “Hold hands with an adult”

“Look left and right” “Walk…stay on the pavement”

“To be safe when crossing the road, so we don’t get run over”

With an adult the children spoke about keeping safe when in a car or on a bike. They spoke about not distracting the driver, sitting in a car seat or on a booster seat and wearing a seatbelt.

“Look out the windows” “I have a car seat” “Seatbelt!”

“wear a helmet”

We learned a new song – ask the children to sing it for you at home!

Twinkle Twinkle Traffic Light (to the tune of twinkle twinkle little star)

Twinkle twinkle traffic light,

Round the corner shining bright,

Red means stop,

Green means go,

Yellow means very slow,

Twinkle Twinkle traffic light,

Round the corner shining bright!