expressive arts – Page 33 – Hecklegirth Nursery

Oats and Beans and Barley Grow

We hope that you are all remembering our Harvest celebration tomorrow at 11.30 for the morning children and 2.30 for those in the afternoon. Dylan’s Mum liked our photos of the children practising:

“We are really looking forward to joining u all 2morrow as well, we cant wait to hear all the boys and girls lovely singing voices, Dylan has been practising lots at home, we all now know the words to oats and beans and barley grow off by heart, he sings it that much lol xx”

Well done Dylan, singing your songs at home. We hope lots of our families join us as the children seem to be looking forward to having an audience.

Harvest

Rev. McGougan is looking forward to joining us for our Harvest celebration on Friday at 11.30 for the morning children and at 2.30 in the afternoon. This is an informal gathering in the Nursery and all family members are welcome. Please remember to return the slip to let us know how many adults will attend. Any donations of dried food stuffs can be donated on or before Friday and will be handed in to Annan Food Bank – thank you to those families who have already kindly donated to this worthy cause. As you can see, the children have been learning two new songs and are looking forward to performing them to their families. We look forward to seeing lots of you there.

Autumn Flower

Autumn Flower is the name of the scarecrow created by the children in the Rainbow Room and they have chosen well, considering the ideas they used to make her. As we have been learning about Autumn, they decided to make a scarecrow that looked like Autumn.
There were problems to be solved, such as how to stick the poles together to make a body, how to get the shape for the scarecrow’s clothes and what to use for a head. There was great fun drawing round Mrs. Gray, decorating the dress with handprints and making the face which changed, from the original plan of a ball of bubble wrap covered in material, to an upside down bucket which we liked. It was great to see so many children contributing their ideas and skills to make their scarecrow. We hope that everyone likes Autumn Flower.

The Sunshine Scarecrow

You may have noticed some unexpected visitors in the Nursery cloakrooms today. These ladies are the scarecrows which the children made as part of a whole school activity prior to our Harvest celebrations next Friday. As you can see, The Sunshine Room decided to go for a patchwork theme and, after an all important vote, have called their scarecrow Princess Rosie. Here are some photos of the work in progress as different children made their contribution to their room’s scarecrow. Well done boys and girls for working so well together. The Rainbow Room’s creation will appear here soon.

We Love Annan

We hope that lots of you enjoyed the fun activities in gorgeous sunshine at Annan’s Day of the Region today. It really was lovely to see so many families and community groups taking part with such enthusiasm. The super pictures that you made of your favourite places and activities in Annan were displayed on the Nursery windows, along with others from Hecklegirth and other local schools and we thought that they looked wonderful. If you didn’t get a chance to see them all today, here is a selection of your ideas and drawings.
Click then click again to make the photos bigger and read some of the ideas you told your families.

Pirates In Hecklegirth Nursery

A big wooden box outdoors has provided the opportunity for great imaginative play recently and this week it has been transformed into a pirate ship. Once they realised that they could fit into the box, the children’s imagination took off and their play developed into the world of pirates.
They decided that they needed a pirate flag and wanted to decorate the ship with “pirate signs”. Then, of course, they had to get the blue paint out to create a sea for their ship to sail on and treasure had to be found which led to treasure maps and lots of talk of “X marks the spot”. The children even used materials in the garden to add planks for the pirates to walk along. We hope that you enjoy these photos of the children showing great creativity and fantastic teamwork.

Skull and crossbones to show we are pirates.

We need to make it look like a pirate ship.

Family Rhyme Time

Friday saw our first Family Learning event of the year and we are delighted that a good number of children and their families chose to take part. Nursery rhymes was the theme and everyone seemed to have good fun with scissors, glue and singing lots of different rhymes. Thank you to Eileen, our Family Learning Co-ordinator, for organising this great activity – everyone seemed to be enjoying themselves. Here are some of the children busy with their families.

First Pictures

You may have noticed that the children’s work is beginning to appear on the walls in Nursery and the corridor. Most have now produced their first drawing or painting and we thought that you would enjoy a little sample of their efforts. To help the children find their own work, click then click again on the photo and you should be able to see their names.

Beautiful Butterflies

Alongside our learning about minibeasts and looking after our own little caterpillars, lots of children created their own butterflies at home with their families. We love the range of materials used and the wonderful ideas that you all had. Thank you to all those families who took the time to take part in this activity. Here is a selection of some of the super works of art.
Click then click again for a closer look.