“Word of the Week” this week in the Rainbow Room is ‘skeleton’ while the Raindrop Room is focussing on ‘rehearsal’.
The Royal Family Home
With a growing interest in castles developing recently in the Raindrop Room, the children decided to make their own castle for the role play area. Making a castle can be hard work but they rose to the challenge and worked together as a team to create their walls, a door and a flag. The next stage was to make crowns as everyone wanted to be a king, queen, prince or princess and, as you can see, this was a popular activity. Before we knew it, the role play area was busy with our very own royal family taking turns on the throne and discussing what royalty do all day. The children certainly seemed pleased with the end result of all their hard work.
Health Week
This week Mr. Palmer has arranged different activities as part of a whole school Health Week so fingers crossed for some sunny days so that we can enjoy most of them outdoors.
When The School’s Away, The Nursery Will Play
As the rest of the school was on an outing on Friday afternoon, Nursery decided to take the opportunity to let everyone to explore the school field. The children had fun on the timber trail and climbing frames, played football, chatted under the shelter and even found some little ladybirds to investigate. What a great afternoon we all had!
Graduation
Thank you to all those who have returned their slips requesting seats for our little graduation ceremony on June 26th. We ask that you please return these slips by Tuesday 11th June to allow us to gauge if we can offer extra seats to those who would like them. Thank you for your co-operation.
Congratulations
Very well done to our recent award winners. We hope that you are very proud of your certificates.
Apologies
We would like to apologise for the service over the past week on our blog. There has been some work requiring to be done centrally on all blogs so we have not been able to post our usual updates. We hope that this has been resolved and will catch up on all our news in the near future. Thank you for your patience.
Butterfly Symmetry
Just like the children in the Rainbow Room, those in the Raindrop Room have been focussing on symmetry and they have made some beautiful, symmetrical butterflies to display in their room. We would like to share a selection here but have a look in the Nursery to see lots more.
Pre-Writing Skills
We were delighted to have so many parents joining us for our pre-writing workshop on Monday and hope that you all enjoyed the activities provided. We would like to thank Shona McGeorge and her team of Occupational Therapists, our Primary 1 teacher Miss Campbell and Eileen, our Family Learning Co-ordinator, for taking the time to provide an insight into the skills we are all trying to develop in the children to prepare them for writing. Shona kindly left a guide for pre-writing skills which everyone should now have in their trays. We hope that you find it helpful.
Learning About Symmetry
As we have been learning about life cycles and are caring for our caterpillars, we took the opportunity to learn about symmetry which can be seen on the wings of butterflies. The children have been creating symmetrical patterns in the art area and experimenting with playdough to make their own symmetrical patterns. ‘Symmetry’ is a tricky word to remember but the children have certainly shown us that they understand what it is.
