2018-2019 – Page 14 – Hecklegirth Nursery

Collaborative Art

As well as individual works of art, the children love to create a collaborative piece of art now and again. We provide the tools and the children work together to produce one big collage or picture. Paint, pens, glitter and collage materials were all available to the children as they worked together to produce their unique creation. It’s lovely to hear them talking together about their picture as they work and the whole creative process seems to have a very calming effect on those joining in. Well done all those who contributed to these creations. One is on display in the school corridor and one in Nursery.

Slime

Leo’s family has been looking at the recent photos of the children making slime:

“Leo loved making the slime and told us all about it.”

It was an activity full of learning and fun which everyone thoroughly enjoyed. Well done Leo for talking about your learning at home.

Slimy Science

One of our recent experiments in the Raindrop Room was to make slime which, as you can imagine, was a very popular activity. We talked about what an experiment is and that we were investigating what would happen if we mixed certain ingredients. Washing up liquid, cornflour, water and food colouring were our starting point and the children enthusiastically followed the instructions for making slime.
There was lots of learning involved as the children measured the correct amounts, mixed them together then discussed if our experiment was successful. They showed good evaluation skills when they realised that their mixture was too watery and they had to provide suggestions of how we could improve it. In the end, as you can see, a second batch of slime was more successful and the children had a fun learning experience. We hope that you like our slimy photos.
Some of their comments were:
Remy: it wasn’t sticky. We put too much water in it.
Leo: it was getting all fuzzy. It had soap, water, corn stuff and the thing we put in playdough (food colouring).
Leah: it feels slimy. It feels really funny.
Emilia B.: don’t add too much water.
Sofia: we made it sticky.

Happy Faces

Oscar and Letti’s family has been looking at the photos from Red Nose Day:

“What a great photo, happy faces all round!”

The children certainly had great fun coming to Nursery in their pyjamas and it was great that we could donate to such a good cause.

Mud Painting And Creativity

We would like to share this little gallery of outdoor play in the Rainbow Room one recent morning. Painting with mud was very popular with some, as the children created artwork using the resources available to them.
Another group decided to make their own hotel using cones, pipes, cable reels and other bits and pieces they found outdoors. In case you are wondering, the watering can on the top of their hotel is the sprinkler to put out fires in the hotel. What a great idea! As always, our children prove themselves to be so creative in their use of resources.

Click then click again on photos for a clearer view.

Flower Arranging

It is always important to have a nice environment to enjoy a meal and these children in the Rainbow Room certainly helped to make the snack area more attractive recently when they created some little floral displays for the snack tables. It was great to hear their discussion about which flowers they liked and which to put together in their vases. We think that their flower arranging skills are great and they made everyone’s visit to snack and lunch a much more pleasant experience.

Congratulations

Huge congratulations to these two recent award winners. You thoroughly deserved your certificates and we are very proud of you.

Red Nose Day

Wear your pyjamas and/or crazy hair was the Hecklegirth challenge on Red Nose Day and the Nursery children took part with great enthusiasm. Thank you very much to everyone who made a donation – the Nursery children did so well to raise £51.18 out of a grand school total of £225 which we are sure will help a very worthy cause. We hope you enjoy these happy faces.

Word Of The Week

Our ‘Word of the Week’ in the Raindrop Room will be ‘unique’ this week, focussing on our individuality, while the Rainbow Room will be learning to use the term ‘solidify’ as part of discussions about their science experiments.

Buddy Excitement

Oscar and Letti’s family enjoyed our photos of the Primary 6 buddies visiting Nursery:

“Lovely to see to see a big sister playing with her wee brother and sister. Harli is so excited to become a buddy!”

Primary 6 are doing a super job and we think that they will make great buddies.