expressive arts – Page 44 – Hecklegirth Nursery

Mischa Impresses Miss Wilson and Mrs. Johnston

Our learning at the start of this term has focussed on Winter and Mischa has impressed both Miss Wilson and Mrs. Johnston from Primary 6 with her story telling and drawing about Winter as well as her excellent talking skills. If you click on the photo you will see Mischa’s super drawing of a penguin and a polar bear about to go into his house.
Mischa showed herself to be a ‘confident individual’ when she talked to Miss Wilson about her drawing, earning herself a Head Teacher’s sticker and her work being displayed on the Achievement Board in the dinner hall. She then spoke with great confidence to Mrs. Johnston who was so impressed that she took Mischa to Primary 6 to borrow some interesting books about icy lands and penguins. Thank you very much Mrs. Johnston for the books which Mischa shared with her group. We hope that you enjoyed Mischa’s guided tour of our ice cave and that you will come back and visit us soon.
Very well done Mischa for some fantastic work. You certainly deserved that Head Teacher’s sticker.

Singing With Smiles

What wonderful smiles the children had when performing Christmas songs to their families on Friday. The last minute phone call from Santa in the Sunshine Room seemed to produce some lovely singing so we hope that he keeps his side of the bargain and is able to come to our party on Wednesday.
With around 200 family members in the audience between the two performances, we think that the children have certainly shown how their confidence has grown since they started in Nursery. They were so excited to perform on the stage and we hope that you enjoyed it as much as they did.

Here are some photos of the children getting ready for their performance.

Christmas Family Learning

Thank you to Madison and Imogen’s Mums for adding your comments to the photos of the children making Christmas crafts with you. Hopefully the decorations are brightening the homes of everyone who took part.

“had great fun,helping madison make some decorations,and she loved it too,she loved showing everyone what she made x”

“Imogen and I had a great time making the xmas crafts and her big brother and daddy thought they were brilliant! Thanks to all involved.”

Christmas Crafts

Thanks must go again to Eileen, our Family Learning Co-ordinator, for providing super Christmas craft activities for children and their families to enjoy together. It’s been great to see that four sessions offered by Eileen have been full and hopefully, lots of homes in Annan are now looking more festive with the crafts produced. It seemed that the Mums, Dads, Grannies and little brothers and sisters enjoyed Eileen’s activities as much as the Nursery children so it really was a Family Learning experience.

Thanks Eileen. We look forward to more Family Learning after Christmas when the story, rhyme and number sacks will continue to be given out every week and some different activities will be on offer.

“Twinkle Twinkle Christmas Star”

The children have been learning some Christmas songs to perform to their families and we decided to take to the stage to have a little practice of using our big singing voices. We hope that you enjoy this video clip which should put you in the mood for Christmas.

Simply click on ‘Play’ to see the morning children practising one of their songs.

Xmas 2012

Finlay and his Mum had fun

Another lovely comment about Eileen’s Family Learning activity from Finlay’s Mum. It sounds like everyone’s had a good time.
“Finlay loved decorating his footprints for the Diwali activity, it was such a fun morning with Eileen and the other children and their Mummy and Daddy’s, I think I had just as much fun as Finlay with the glitter. Thank you Eileen.”

Family Fun

It was great to see lots of parents and children taking part in our recent Family Learning activity which linked to our learning about Diwali. As promised, here are some photos of you decorating your footprints and some lovely examples of your designs. Everyone seemed to enjoy themselves so we hope that you’re looking forward to Eileen’s next activity.
In the meantime, remember that you can collect an activity sack on a Thursday to take home for the week.

Arcimboldo Artists

We used food to make portraits in the style of the artist Arcimboldo. As you can see, everyone had different ideas of what to use and how to use it but we think that the children produced some very interesting and original works of art.
You can click on photos to make them bigger. If you want to comment on the children’s work, please click on ‘0 comments’ above this paragraph to type your comment.

What do you think of the artist’s work?

As part of our learning about Autumn, we have looked at some of the work of the artist Arcimboldo. We looked at his portraits of “Summer” and “Autumn” to see how he used food to depict the seasons as faces then we used food to make our own portraits. Here are some our comments on Arcimboldo’s paintings. Examples of our own work will follow soon.

Katie: I like the Autumn one. I like the potato.
Liam: an artist makes pictures. I like the “Summer” Arcimboldo picture best ’cause he’s smiling on his picture.
Abbi: I like the leaves on the “Autumn” one.
Hayden: I like the “Autumn” one. His nose is funny.
Nate: the artist’s called Arcimboldo. The pumpkin is funny on his head.
Emily: I like the cherries on the picture.
Adam: I like the “Summer” one. I like all the stuff that’s hiding in his hair.
Olivia: I like the “Autumn” one. The “Summer” one looks colder.

Outdoor Learning

Despite us turning the corner into Autumn, we have had some lovely days in the Nursery garden lately. Paint and water, sand and soil – we’ve mixed, measured, dug and had great fun learning outdoors. Here you can see us at work.