Category: 2013-2014

Vincent Van Gogh

Vincent Van Gogh is the latest artist that the children have learning about and to get a taste of his work we looked at “Sunflowers” and “Starry Night”. The children talked about what they liked in his paintings and which painting they preferred.

Bethany: I like “Starry Night” best ’cause it has lots of stars on it. It’s funny that it’s a yellow moon – it should be white.
Dan: I like “Sunflowers” best ’cause it’s got nice colours.
Riley: I like the vase in the “Sunflowers”
Kailey: “Starry Night” is best ’cause it’s colourful.
Freya: I like the “Sunflowers” one best ’cause I like sunflowers.
Theo: I like the blue bits in the middle of the sunflowers.

The children also produced their own artwork using Van Gogh’s “Sunflowers” as inspiration. Have a look in Nursery and you can see their super efforts. We will put photos of their art work here soon.

Spring Weather Wear

As the weather has begun to get a little warmer, the children have enjoyed spending a lot of time in the garden although last week, despite the rain and cooler temperatures, they had great fun cleaning all the equipment from the mud kitchen and racing the tyres down the slope. When the weather gets warmer, the children get too hot in the all-in-one suits so we ask that they do not have good clothes on as we would not like anything special to be spoiled. It seems a long time since we played out without suits so let’s hope that the Spring weather continues.

Super Art Work

Like us, Carmen’s Mum loved her art work:

“When I saw this picture I was really very impressed. Well done Carmen. It’s proudly displayed in our hallway. Carmen loves flowers. Tom and Carmen were playing in the garden and I saw them putting flowers into a bucket and filling it with water, I asked what they were doing they replied making perfume!”

That’s brought a few memories back from our youth – making perfume with petals in the garden. It was a super picture Carmen and all your own idea to use the sweet wrappers. Well done!

Thank You Danielle

After our buddies have had some super positive comments from parents, it’s lovely to see that they too have been looking on our blog. Danielle left this comment:

“Love playing with my buddy and I hope she does too! And also hope to make new friends in the nursery this year!”

Thanks very much Danielle for taking the time to visit the blog. We are sure that your new Nursery friends love seeing you as they look forward to your visits. Keep up the good work!

Brilliant Buddies

We have had another lovely comment about our buddies from Bethany’s family:

Bethany says “I like her name and I like the way she plays with me outside. I like the way she helps me jump.”

Keep up the good work buddies. You are obviously doing a good job of being ‘responsible citizens’ in helping the Nursery children become ‘confident individuals’.

Thank You Buddies

It seems that our P5 and P6 buddies are doing a good job as several families have commented on the children’s photos with their buddies:

“What a lovely idea 🙂 Liam looks like he’s having great fun. Thanks to his buddy x”

“Such a lovely Idea, Sophie loves her buddy and its nice to know she is being looked after. Thanks Hope!”

“Aw love this picture of Isla and Carmen. When Carmen told me that Isla was her Buddy I was very pleased nice to have someone you know that will look after your child in P1. I think it’s a great idea. Isla and Carmen are the best of friends. Carmen says it’s like having another big sister. Carmen made a lovely picture for Isla and Isla made Carmen a lovely bracelet. It’s going to be the start of a lovely friendship.”

Hopefully there will lots more opportunities to get to know each other this term. We plan to have another visit to the playground next week too so the buddies who were away on a school trip this week should be back. Thank you for your comments – we feel sure that the buddies will be delighted with them.

Playground Pals

The children who will be moving on to Primary 1 at Hecklegirth in August have been getting to know their buddies better recently. This week they enjoyed some visits to the playground to help prepare them for the transition to school. Primary 1 very kindly took the children out to the playground when it was empty and then they joined in a playtime with the rest of the school to help build their confidence. On both occasions the children’s buddies looked after them, making sure that they were confident and happy. As you can see from the photos, they even helped them to line up when the bell rang just like they will do in Primary 1.
I think you can see from the smiles on their faces that the relationships between the buddies and the future Primary 1 children are developing very well. Thank you to Primary 1 for looking after Nursery and thank you to all the buddies who did such a brilliant job at looking after their new little friends. The children were very excited about their visits to the playground so hopefully we will be able to arrange more visits soon.

What is an incubator for?

In an earlier post we talked about a new arrival in Nursery (see below). The children tried to work out what the new addition might be and then they were to ask at home what an incubator does.
Here are some of the children’s ideas.

Jayden: it’s an egg box. It warms eggs up to help them crack.
Finlay: baby hens can hatch.
Joey: it’s an egg warmer and keeps the eggs cosy.
Simon: a thermometer keeps an eye on the temperature.
Zachary: it’s for hatching eggs.
Brogan: I see a monitor. It checks the time.
Ciaran: chicks come out of the eggs.
Tom: the Mummy chicken isn’t there so the incubator is keeping the eggs warm. They are going to be chicks.
Bethany: it needs electricity.
Rebecca: there is eggs and there is going to be lots of chicks.
Mary: it’s warm to keep the chickens warm and cosy.
Lexi: I think the chicks are going to be in Nursery to say ‘Hello’.
Sophie L.: the incubator is warming the eggs up.

Well done boys and girls. We think that you done good research at home. Thank you also to Simon’s Mum and Dad who have brought us eggs for our incubator. I wonder when they will start to hatch?

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