We hope that everyone is looking forward to a lovely Spring holiday with their family. Nursery is now closed until Tuesday 18th April but we still have some memories to share from last term so keep an eye on our blog for a few updates over the holidays. We hope that the sun shines over the next two weeks and that you all have a great break.
Well Done
Well done to last week’s award winners. We hope that you are proud of your certificates.
Our Mums
As we talked last week with some of the children about Mother’s Day, we asked what their mummies do for them and we would like to share some of their thoughts.
Harper: she lets me watch T.V.
Riley: she goes to the shop and buys me nice things.
Lily: Mummy helps me get dressed.
George: she makes me lunch.
Tom: she gets me Lego.
Quinn: she watches telly with me.
Charlie: she puts the computer on for me.
James: she reads me stories at bedtime.
Isaac: she makes me laugh.
Alyssa: she helps me make pancakes.
Danielle: she reads to me.
Priya: she hugs me.
Callum: she helps me get sweets out of the cupboard.
Vinnie: she gives me a gummy sweet every day.
Eli: she helps me wash dishes and now I know how to do it.
Bethany: she takes me to the park.
Olivia: she makes cakes with me.
What a lot of lovely examples of how kind and helpful Mums can be.
Bird Watching
Quinn and Harvey M’s families have been enjoying the photos of the visit by Kirsty from RSPB:
“This made me laugh as Quinn said she was watching birds through a telescope…..after some probing questions we discovered she meant binoculars. Xx”
“Harvey loves looking out for birds. Hes always feeding the birds that come to the garden at Granny’s house!”
I hope that you are all going to keep an eye out for different birds in the holidays. I wonder if you might see some that are different to the ones we see in the Nursery garden?
Red Nose Day
As you can see from our photos, the Nursery children took part with great enthusiasm in Primary 4’s challenge on Friday to wear something red for Red Nose Day.
Thank you to all those who bought red noses from us earlier in the week as you helped to raise £53 towards the Red Nose Day total and apologies to those who missed out as there wasn’t a single red nose left to buy in the whole school.
Thank you for all your donations and to Amelia’s family for their raffle prize which was won by Ava. Including red nose sales, the raffle and donations on the day Nursery families raised a grand total of £135.45 to add to the whole school contributions so thank you to everyone for their generosity.
The Bird Lady
Enid has been talking to her family about the visit by RSPB:
“Enid was very excited to tell me all about the bird lady as she described her when she came home from nursery. Sounds like they enjoyed learning about the birds.”
Kirsty’s activities certainly got the children very enthusiastic about looking out for birds in our garden and at home. We’re glad that you enjoyed her visit Enid.
Congratulations
Learning With RSPB
As promised, here are the afternoon children enjoying the RSPB activities with Kirsty. We are now looking forward to keeping an eye out for all the birds visiting our garden over the next few months.
RSPB Visit
Since we had our canopy built last summer, the birds have been slowly getting a little more confident to visit our garden and the children get very excited if they come to sample some of our bird food.
This week we had a visitor who helped us learn more about the birds we might see and what they like to eat. Kirsty from the RSPB let us hear what different sounds each bird makes and we had great fun playing a game to see if we could remember their sounds to match them to the correct picture. The children got their fingers nice and sticky making fat balls for the birds using lard and seeds then they tried out the binoculars in the garden to see if any birds were close by although a little help was needed to get the binoculars the right way round. Kirsty also showed the children three different nests and talked about the birds that would use them so everyone left feeling very enthusiastic about our local birds and how to look after them.
Here are the morning children enjoying their activities. Photos of the children in the afternoon will be posted soon.
Fantastic Time
Quinn’s family has been looking at some of our photos. Quinn has been telling them about her recent visit to Tesco:
“Quinn had a fantastic time and has told us all about it at home. I asked if it was fun and she said “awesome”. The chocolate pancakes sound good and she loved scanning her shopping. Xx”
They did all enjoy scanning the cereal boxes and the pancakes seemed to taste even better because we saw them being made. Quinn’s family also enjoyed last week’s Family Learning activity:
“We had a great time making easter crafts. Its a great idea and we enjoy doing it especially when Isaac can come and play with Quinn. Xx”
Eileen will be delighted to hear that you enjoyed the Easter crafts. It is lovely that we can have little sisters and brothers joining in. Eileen’s next plan is to offer the PEEP sessions starting next term – everyone has a letter in their trays explaining what they are about so we hope that some of our families will be able to take part.
