Chinese New Year Learning

Just like the Raindrop Room, those in the Rainbow Room have been learning about Chinese New Year and have enjoyed a range of activities. There has been a focus on developing fine motor control with the use of chopsticks to paint and write on paper and in glittery sand while the sand tray turned into a big noodle sensory experience. We have sequenced numbers and tried to copy the Chinese versions, discovered where China is on the globe and danced along with the dragons as we watched them on the big screen. Chinese New Year certainly provides lots of opportunities for learning.

Which Animal Are You?

Jasmin’s family has told us about her discussions at home about Chinese Year.

“Jasmin really enjoyed asking all her family what animal represented their birth year according to Chinese tradition, google to the rescue!”

Well done Jasmin for talking about your learning at home. It’s certainly handy to have Google for tricky questions at times.

Chinese New Year

With Chinese New Year being celebrated around the world this week, both Nursery rooms have experienced a range of activities as part of their learning about this special celebration. This little gallery shows the children in the Raindrop Room developing their fine motor skills through the use of tongs and chopsticks to pick up rice which was a fun and challenging activity. Some also made “lai see”, the lucky red envelopes, and attempted to copy some Chinese numbers. We will share photos of the children in the Rainbow Room soon as they too experienced a range of activities linked to Chinese New Year.

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Beat The Bugs

Our Dumfries and Galloway RAiSE teacher has looked at our photos of the children learning about handwashing.

“This is always an interesting activity. Really drives home the importance of handwashing to beat the bugs.

Who did you borrow the UV light box from? I’m sure other schools might like to try this too.

Regards
Carol Moyes
RAiSE Teacher”

Adults and children alike are always surprised at the number of germs that appear on their hands. The UV light box was from the Health Protection team at Public Health and is certainly an interesting piece of equipment for the children to use.

“Starry Night”

The children in the Rainbow Room have been looking at Vincent Van Gogh’s “Starry Night” as inspiration in the art area. They have been experimenting with paint on foil using cotton buds to create their own version of “Starry Night” and we love the ideas that they produced. Why not have a look in Nursery to see their work close up but we thought that we would share a little gallery here too?
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How Clean Are Your Hands?

After learning about how to wash their hands properly, the children were able to check how well they had cleaned them by looking at their hands in a special machine that uses UV light to show up germs. As you can imagine, it was quite a surprise to some of them that they still had germs showing up on their hands so hopefully everyone will now be making an extra super effort with their hand washing from now on.

Handwashing Hygiene

As part of our Health and Wellbeing plan, the children have been learning lately about the importance of handwashing and how to do it well to avoid germs. Here are a few of the ideas in the Raindrop Room.

Archie: wash your dirty hands.
Louie: use water then soap, rub together, wash it all away …done.
Jasmin: use water first.
Imogen: after you sneeze you wash your hands.
Alisha: after we’ve been outside we wash our hands.
Finlay: I like having clean hands. They smell nice.

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