Our Primary 6 buddies are always welcome visitors to Nursery and have been doing a super job of building relationships with our children. We have a few photos to share of their recent visits and hope that it’s not too long before the Nursery children and buddies can all meet again.
We have had a query from one of our families about the lunch menus which some may not have returned before Nursery closed. Please do not worry about this as you will be able to hand menus in if we return to Nursery before summer and we can place the children’s orders with the kitchen then.
We have also been asked about the best method to send photos from home to share on our blog. We suggest that you e-mail them to the school address below
gw08officehecklegirt@ea.dumgal.sch.ukÂ
with a small description of what the children were doing and let us know if you would like your child’s first name used in the post or would prefer that we did not.
Any written messages can be sent to the blog by clicking on the ‘Leave a comment’ link to the left of a post. We would love to hear from you all.
Please take the opportunity to e-mail the school address for any further concerns or worries. We would like to help in any way we can and hope that you are all staying safe and well.
We would like to share an activity to try at home which involves the fun of water play alongside some science learning.
• Collect a selection of toys and other suitable objects which will not be damaged by being put in water. Put some water in a basin, a bucket or a sink.
• Encourage your child initially to make predictions about whether the objects will float or sink then get them to test their theories.
• Discuss where the toys sit in the water – are at the top or the bottom of the basin? Discuss with them why they think the objects floated or sunk.
• Use the terms ‘float’ and sink’ to help the children use the correct vocabulary.
• Fruit like apples and oranges can give surprising results. If you have an orange, try testing it with the peel on then peel it and try it again.
• The children can then sort the objects into a group that floats and a group that sinks. Help them to count how many are in each group and discuss which group has more.
We hope that you can have fun with a little floating and sinking. We would love to hear how you get on with this activity.
We have a lovely message and photo for everyone from Mrs. Carruthers:
“Hello from Mrs J Carruthers. I just wanted to pop on to say hello. I hope you are all staying safe with your families and enjoying this unique time with them. I am missing you all very much and hopefully we will see each other soon. I have enjoyed seeing some of your photos on the blog. I have been making rainbow pictures with my two daughters and spending time in the sunshine. Take care all of you.”
How lovely to see Mrs. Carruthers’ daughters who look like they are keeping busy. We hope that all our Nursery children are enjoying time with their families too.
Further to the video of her playing Humpty Dumpty at home with her son, Mrs. Irving has left a message:
“I’m looking forward to taking my accordion into nursery to play alongside our brilliant children singing. Lots more practice will be needed though for me to keep up with them!”
That would be great Mrs. Irving. We look forward to joining in lots of songs with you.
Mrs. Irving and her son have done a little rendition of Humpty Dumpty for you all to sing along to. She has not played the accordion for many years but thought that she would give it a try. We think that you have done a brilliant job Mrs. Irving and hope that everyone enjoys this little clip.
Click on the video below to see her clip from home.
Outdoor play is always very popular with our children and this little group was certainly displaying super gross motor skills as they found different ways to move across the frame. I wonder what you have all been doing outdoors at home in the lovely weather?
How many different ways of moving can you think of? What about climbing like this little group, running, rolling … remember all those different moves you learned in the hall? See how many different ways you can show your family to move and count them together. I wonder which is your favourite movement? We would love to hear how you get on.
As we have said previously, singing songs and rhymes together is very important for children’s development so we will continue to share a suggested “Rhyme of the Week” here although the more rhymes the children enjoy, the better.
This week’s rhyme is “Humpty Dumpty”. We hope that you all enjoy singing along to this clip. Simply refresh our page to watch it again.
We think that Humpty Dumpty looks happy with his bandages on. I wonder if you could try to draw him at home? Will you draw him before or after his big fall?
Today would have been the day that we all returned to Nursery after the holidays and, for some children, it would have been that important first day in Nursery. Although you may not have been able to have the holiday you planned, due to the current changes to our lifestyles, we hope that you enjoyed having time together as a family, to relax and hopefully still enjoy some Easter eggs.
In line with guidance, we continue to remain closed for now but will share some photos we still have of the children from last term, so that they can talk with their families about their friends, and will share a few suggestions here of activities you may like to try at home.
We are delighted that we have heard from a few of our families over the past few weeks but would love to hear from more of you about what you have been doing. Just click on the “Leave a comment” link to the left of posts to leave us a message which we will publish. We hope that you are all staying safe and healthy.
Here is another little gallery of some great activities from home. We love your beautifully decorated hat and the plants look bright and colourful to cheer up your garden. I wonder if you are needing to water them lots as we don’t seem to have had rain for such a long time? It’s great to have the responsibility of looking after your own plants and we feel sure that you will do a super job of it.
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