We hope that everyone enjoys the Christmas holiday with their family. Nursery is closed until Thursday 5th January 2017 but I still have some photos to share from last term so I will post them here over the next week or two.
Category: 2016-2017
More Party Fun
Here are the promised photos that show that the party spirit was just as evident in the afternoon party as the morning one. As you can see, they joined in the dancing and games with enthusiasm and were also lucky enough to get a visit from Santa. As with the photos of the morning children, please click then click again to make the photos clearer.
Little Visitors
Mrs. Mahon, the Primary 2 teacher, enjoyed seeing the photos of the children who visited her classroom to make ice homes:
“Lovely seeing P2 working so nicely with our little visitors! Come back again soon!”
Thank you for inviting us and thank you to the Primary 2 children for looking after our little Nursery group – great teamwork everyone.
Party Time
A fun time was had by all at our Christmas parties today with something for everyone, be it games, dancing or party food. The children were also delighted to have a visit from Santa, despite it being such a busy time of year for him. Thank you Santa – we all really appreciated your visit.
The photos below give you a taste of our morning party and photos of the afternoon party will follow in the next day or two.
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Christmas Cards
Here is a selection of the lovely cards the children designed for their families. We love that they are all different and hope that yours is taking pride of place in your home at Christmas.
Sparkles and Glitter
Hopefully you should all have your Christmas decorations home by now. The children enjoyed this simple way to make a decoration for their tree and everyone had the opportunity to make it unique to them with the various sparkles and glitter available. We hope that they are on your tree and will be able to make an appearance every year to remind you of your time in Nursery.
Christmas Family Learning
More parents and grandparents joined the children on Friday to take part in the Family Learning ‘make and take’ Christmas activities organised by Eileen, our Family Learning Co-ordinator. We hope that your wreaths are now adding to the festive decorations in your homes. Thank you again Eileen for organising these fun sessions. Everyone seems to have thoroughly enjoyed them.
Ice Homes With Primary 2
When Primary 2 wanted to put ice cube trays in our freezer recently, some of the Nursery children were curious about what they were going to do with them. A group of children was therefore invited to join Primary 2 when they collected the ice cubes for their activity. Our children worked well together with the older children when they talked about freezing and melting as they tried to make homes out of ice.
The children showed that they developed their learning from this visit to Primary 2 as you can see from some of the comments below.
Owen: we needed to build ice homes. You needed to stack them all.
Brogan: we had to get the ice out. It was very cold. It’s made of water.
Noah: we were making homes. They melted and made water.
Ethan: we went to the school. We made ice for them. We were having a feel of it. It felt freezing cold.
Thank you very much Mrs. Mahon and Primary 2 for inviting us to your class. We had lots of fun and were able to tell the other boys and girls what we had learned.
Award Winners
Christmas Family Learning
Thanks must go again to Eileen, our Family Learning Co-ordinator, for providing super Christmas activities for children and their families to enjoy together. As you can see from our photos, Christmas wreaths and Rudolph sandwiches were being made earlier this week and they certainly look like good fun.
It’s lovely to see so many families participating, despite everyone being so busy at this time of year, and we really appreciate Eileen offering activities on several days. Tomorrow brings more sessions so we hope that those involved enjoy their Christmas ‘make and take’ session as much as these families did.
