Emma’s Mum left a comment to tell us how much her family enjoyed the Family Learning activity:
“Emma had a great time with this activity and it was lovely that Chloe and mummy were able to join in too.”
You look like you’re having fun in the photo. We love that little brothers and sisters can join in too.
Eileen, our Family Learning Co-ordinator, has left a message for all those who joined her for the activity last week:
“Thank-you to everyone who came to learn about Lakshmi’s tiny footprints and to decorate their feet. I loved the chocolate sparklers and am glad Callum’s Dad had them on his birthday cake. Photo’s are on the Family Learning notice board. Remember to come and collect your feet from my room – they are all dry now! Next activity will be Christmas. If any of you would like to help me to prepare the crafts for this please let me know.”
We look forward to Eileen’s Christmas crafts and hope that lots of families will be able to join in.
Keira’s Nana and Kacey’s Mum really enjoyed the Family Learning activity last week:
“Keira really enjoys Eileen’s family activities. Last week was good fun and yummy-stickers and glue then sparkling chocolate fingers, thank you.”
“Kacey had a great time decorating her feet for Diwali she used lots of different textures and materials. She asked for some help from mummy to colour her toes in pink , “it’s my favourite colour” she said.”
It certainly looked like good fun and there were some wonderful patterns on the feet.
Callum’s family left us a comment on the recent Family Learning activity:
“Callum and Gran really enjoyed the session. The chocolate sparklers went on daddy’s birthday cake and looked really fab. Thank you Eileen.”
That was lucky for Daddy getting something extra special on his cake. Well done Callum and, of course, Gran.
As our learning this week and next is focussed around Bonfire Night and Diwali, Eileen, our Family Learning Co-ordinator, organised an activity linked to these celebrations.
As Hindus welcome Lakshmi, the goddess of wealth and prosperity, into their homes at Diwali, her tiny footprints are found around the house to show her arrival. The children drew round their feet and produced some wonderfully creative and individual designs on their drawings to represent Lakshmi.
They also worked with their families to make chocolate sparklers which seemed to go down just as well as the sparklers at a bonfire.
Thank you to Eileen for providing a super activity that lots of families were able to enjoy and thanks also for offering extra time slots for those who were not able to make the arranged days. We are sure that everyone had a great time and we look forward to the next Family Learning activity.
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Eileen Johnstone, our Family Learning Co-ordinator, has left a message:
“I want to thank everyone who helped me to check the games and books for the activity bags – it usually takes me weeks to do it all. I am really pleased that the bags are ready to go out after the October holiday. I will send a letter out next week with information about borrowing and returning bags.”
Ben’s Mum enjoyed the recent photos of Ben on the blog:
“Well done Ben! We had fun cutting out letters and numbers from old magazines.”
“Wow that looks fantastic, great job everyone!” (painting the raised beds in the garden)
Torrin’s Mum also left us a comment about the recent Family Learning activity:
“Imoen and I just loved getting to spend some crafty time with Torrin and the other children making canvas squares. Its been a joy to be a part of his first term at Nursery :)”
Kacey’s family has been enjoying the photos on the blog and left a comment about the recent Family Learning activity:
“Kacey and mummy really enjoyed decorating a square for the wall , we will definitely be coming back to the next activity.. Thank you.”
Kacey had also had fun making her apple crumble:
“Kacey loves cooking/ baking she was so excited when she came home!”
Thank you so much for taking the time to leave us a message. We are pleased that Kacey’s enjoying lots of different activities in Nursery.
For those who were involved in last year’s growing project, we thought that you might like to see the vegetables that were lifted from the raised beds this week. Despite a hot summer holiday when the beds were not able to be watered, there still was a selection of vegetables to harvest. The children had great fun pulling them out and some spent a long time searching for the smallest carrot which was quite a competition.
Two more of our families have left a comment to say that they enjoyed the Family Learning activity last week:
“I enjoyed this as much as Summer and she was really surprised that mummy was there!”
“What a lovely picture Emma. Looks like you had great fun with daddy and Chloe making your pictures. Hope mummy can make it next time.”
Thank you for taking the time to leave a comment. We want to hear from as many of our families as possible and hope that the blog provides an insight into Nursery life.
