Listen to what the children had to say about making shortbread.
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What was your favourite part?
What was your favourite part of making shortbread? flour mixing butter2 mixing
Who will you give your shortbread to?
Category: 2010-2011
Our “Tartan Party” Preparations
As Burn’s Day approaches, we are learning about Robert Burns and Scottish culture. The children have been amazed to learn that Robert Burns has visited Annan and some may even be dragging you to the local chip shop to see the plaque on the wall that tells us this.
To prepare for our Burn’s celebrations, or as one of the children called it “Our Tartan Party”, we have been learning “Ye Cannae Shove Yer Granny Aff the Bus” and “Three Craws” which we will perform next week. The afternoon children will celebrate on Tuesday with P1, P2 and P3/2. The morning children will have their celebration on Wednesday with P4 and P5. If possible, it would be great if the children could wear a little tartan to help us all join in the spirit of the event.
Along with oatcakes, cheese and Irn Bru the children thought that some shortbread would be a tasty addition to our “Burn’s Supper”. Miss Wilson has spoken to the kind ladies in the kitchen and they will be making some for us. However, we are also baking shortbread ourselves: as you can see from the photos, some of the children are demonstrating very good skills. Mrs. Lindsay, Mrs. Hamilton and Miss Wilson were lucky enough to be chosen as “tasters” and they were very impressed with our baking.
Nursery Welcomes Some Special Visitors
On our return to Nursery this week, we all enjoyed a very exciting, “hands-on” visit by Zoolab.
A cockroach called Larry, Maurice the millipede and best friends, Oscar and Daisy the snails were among our visitors. We learned some amazing facts about the lifestyles of these animals and the children were particularly impressed by the fact that snails have more teeth than sharks and Larry the cockroach will actually eat smelly socks.
Many of the children also enjoyed the opportunity to stroke and hold these animals, which was a memorable experience. We have captured some of their impressions in photos and comments below. Click on the photos to get a closer view.
Zak: “The spider was good ‘cause it nearly chased that bug”.
Poppy: “Oscar’s kiss feels cold”. (snail)
Jannat: “He’s tickly”. (cockroach)
Remo: “Oh! Oh! it feels really really slimy”.(snail)
Aidan: “I liked the snake ‘cause it’s slinky”.
Dylan: “It’s a bit scribbly”. (cockroach on his hand)
Sarah: “What number’s his legs? It looks like a lot.” (the millipede)
Phoebe: “I loved the snake. It felt soft”.
Christmas Family Fun
We hope that everyone enjoyed our concert performance this week. The children have had fun practising with Primaries 1, 2 and 3/2 and you could clearly see the enjoyment on their faces when they performed for their families and friends.
After the great excitement of the concert, it was lovely to see so many parents and grandparents join us for a relaxing time making Christmas decorations with the children. Our thanks go to Eileen and Jennifer from Family Learning who make these events so welcoming for everyone. It’s always wonderful to see so many families join in activities in the Nursery.
We hope you like our decorations. We certainly had great fun making them.
A Recipe for Reindeer Food
Let’s hope Rudolph and his friends all enjoy our food.
Let’s hope Rudolph and his friends all enjoy our food.
A Few Thoughts on the Snowmen
Sarah: I like them because they look so funny.
Ellie: I like their sparkles.
Poppy: The scarves are nice.
Jack: I like the red ones ‘cause I’m in the red group and they’re the best.
Kady: They’re fantastic!
Super Snowmen
Look at the super snowmen we made at home with our families. Do you like our wonderful efforts?
Annan Museum visit
The children all seemed to enjoy the recent Christmas craft workshop at Annan Museum. We hope you liked the cards, decorations and clay snowmen the children brought home. We’d like to say a big thank you to those parents who helped us and to Annan Museum staff who made us feel very welcome and provided all the wonderful materials.
Operation Christmas Child
Nursery and Primary 1 worked together recently to fill boxes for the Operation Christmas Child appeal.
Children and staff were all touched by Mrs. Jardine’s visit when she told us about delivering the boxes to children who have so little compared to us. Her photos, stories and DVD seemed to have a genuine impact on the children.
One of our Mums, Mrs. Simpson, kindly organised our box filling day which was great fun with Nursery, Primary 1 and parents all working together. As well as Mrs. Simpson’s gifts, we had generous contributions from other families which made our efforts particularly impressive.
The most exciting part of this activity for the children seemed to be loading the boxes into the van, ready to be sent on their way. Everyone helped to carry the boxes outside and the children all blew a kiss into the van to wish “Merry Christmas” to the children receiving the boxes.
We would like to thank all those who helped to make this a very worthwhile experience for the children.
Welcome!
Welcome to Hecklegirth Nursery. We look forward to sharing our learning with you and listening to your comments in a new and exciting way. We hope to share photos and samples of our activities on this blog.
