The children from the Sunshine Room have been building their confidence in the wider environment recently by paying a few visits to the nature garden. As you can see, they have enjoyed exploring every aspect of it and collected various objects from nature to create their own works of art. We hope that you like their work as much as we do.
Congratulations and well done to the winners of last week’s certificates. What lovely smiles! We hope that you are proud of your achievements.
Eileen, our Family Learning Co-ordinator, has left a message about the play dough testing at her PEEP sessions today:
“Our play dough testing is over. The favourite was the play dough made with hair conditioner. It was the squishiest and had a lovely smell, it also made our hands nice and soft. Least favourite was the play dough made with yoghurt.”
Thank you all you play dough testers who took part. I liked the smell of the hair conditioner play dough too. I wonder if you will make any at home?
Finlay’s family has been looking at the photos from the fire station:
“Finlay enjoyed his morning at the fire station and would like to be a firefighter when he grows up. Finlay said he laughed a lot when Mrs Gray soaked Mrs Kirkpatrick with the big hose!!😁”
Poor Mrs. Kirkpatrick, she really was soaked but it was an accident. The children did find it very funny.
Joshua H’s family liked the fire station photos too:
“Joshua looks so happy sitting in the fire engine 😄.” and “Joshua looks like he had lots of fun here 😊”
That fire engine certainly put lots of smiles on the children’s faces.
Quinn’s family likes the photos of the children with the tractor and the lamb:
“These are fantastic photos. We hears lots about this visit. Love seeing our wee girl so happy at nursery. Xx”
They certainly were all very happy that day. If anyone uses Facebook, I think that Fiona has now put a selection of photos on the RHET Dumfries and Galloway page so you should be able to see them there.
Tomorrow, Tuesday 2nd May, is the second PEEP learning together activity where Eileen, our Family Learning Co-ordinator, has promised testing of different kinds of play dough including soap dough and making some dough to take home. Everyone is welcome to join in so why not try it out from 9-10 or 12.15-1.15?
Here are the children and adults busy with their drawing and writing activity last week.
As promised, here are photos of the afternoon children visiting the fire station last week. They all enjoyed lots of fun learning just like the morning children. Thank you so much to all the parents and grandparents who came with us on our visit – we appreciate your help and support.
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Olivia’s family likes the photo of her trying out the hose at the fire station:
“What a great action shot! After initially being unsure about going to the fire station Olivia was delighted to tell us all about her go with the hose and her favourite part, poor Mrs Kirkpatrick getting soaked!! 😃”
We’re glad you enjoyed your visit Olivia and were confident to try out the hose. It was great fun for everyone.
Quinn’s family has been looking at the photos of the children planting their sunflower seeds:
“Quinn said she had a great time doing the sunflower. It has grown lots and has already had to be repotted. Xx”
It’s great news that it’s grown lots already Quinn. You must be looking after it well. I wonder what size it will grow to?
After learning about different jobs in our community at the end of last term, we had one further exciting trip out last week when we visited the fire station. Fortunately the weather was very kind and we enjoyed a lovely walk there in the sunshine. As well as finding out about the job of a fire officer, the children took part in a road safety activity where they took on different roles of cars, lorries, buses and bikes as well as a police officer and lollipop person. This was a super new resource that the fire service have just acquired and was a great way to help the children think about how to stay safe.
They also got a close up view of all the equipment in a fire engine, learned what it is used for and put their hands to their ears as the siren was turned on. Of course, no visit to the fire station is complete without getting an opportunity to sit up in the fire engine and try out the big hose.
Huge thanks go to all the fire fighters who looked after us and made our visit such fun as well as to the parents who accompanied us – without parent helpers these trips out would not be possible. We hope that you enjoy these photos of the morning children and will post photos soon of our afternoon visit.
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