family learning – Page 4 – Hecklegirth Nursery

Alfie’s Pizza

It was lovely to hear from Alfie’s family that, just like Kyla, they too are out on painted rock hunts. We love these super photos that Alfie sent us and his Mum explained what they had been doing.

“After a walk hunting for painted rocks this one gave Alfie the idea for dinner. We made our own pizza dough & sauce then Alfie decorated his pizza with lots of vegetables to look like himself. “

I wonder who left that painted stone that inspired you? Your pizza looks absolutely delicious Alfie and it looks just like you. What great skills you are learning to be making your own dough too. Very well done and thank you so much for telling us all about your adventures. It’s great to hear from you.

Well Done Kyla

Mrs. Gray has been looking at the photo of Kyla’s great work:

“Love your painted stones Kyla. My favourite is the Ladybird. I keep a look out for them when i out walking. Thank you for sharing them with us.”

I wonder if Mrs. Gray will find any of your stones?

Have Fun With Primary 1

I wonder if any of you enjoyed Mrs. Irving recently reading “Lucy’s Blue Day” on our blog? Miss Campbell and Mrs. Mahon thought that Primary 1 and Primary 1/2 might like to hear this story too so their children are going to listen to this animated version this week and their teachers have made a quiz for them to see if they can answer some questions about the story.

Miss Campbell and Mrs. Mahon have kindly shared their activity so that you can have a go at the same activity as Primary 1. You will have to listen well as your family reads the questions then they will help you answer the quiz. We feel sure that there will be some very good listeners out there from our Nursery who will be able to answer some Primary 1 questions.

Click on the link below to begin and have fun. Scroll down slightly to see the answer options.

Kyla’s Super Work

Kyla has been very busy at home doing lots and lots of arts and crafts which she is thoroughly enjoying. She has loved creating her own designs to decorate these stones which we think are beautiful. Watch out for these special stones if you’re out with your family as Kyla is planning to hide them when she goes out a walk.
Thank you so much Kyla for sharing a photo of your super work which we love and for being so kind in leaving your stones for other girls and boys to find. We hope that everyone has fun looking for your beautiful stones.

Rhyme Of The Week

Our “Rhyme of the Week” is “Five Currant Buns” so you need to get your counting heads on everyone, as well as joining in with lots of super singing. Remember to hold up your fingers to show how many buns are left.

Click on the link below and sing along.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/school-radio/nursery-rhymes-five-currant-buns/zm4nmfr

Tadpole Update

Do you remember Isaac W.’s tadpoles? Well, we’ve had an update on them from his family:

“Not much change in size at the minute just in colour. Will send in another picture when the back legs start to form. Isaac is doing a great job of checking on them and feeding them. 🙂. “

We will look forward to further developments Isaac. His family also liked the photos of their craft day:

“Fab pics, both Quinn and Isaac had great fun (so did Dad). Isaac said his is a water horse so does not need legs 🙂 “

We love your water horse and we can understand your thinking about the legs Isaac.

Isaac’s family also wanted to leave a message about our “Rhyme of the Week” video and Mrs. Kirkpatrick’s care of our planter.

“Love it. Well doone Coll and Mrs Irving 🙂” and “Excellent job Mrs Kirkpatrick 🙂“.

Thank you so much for taking the time to leave us comments. We all love to hear from our families so it’s much appreciated.

Kim’s Game

Do any of you remember playing Kim’s Game when you were younger? This is a simple, fun game to enjoy with your child at home and will develop his/her memory skills, concentration and ability to take turns.

Encourage your child to choose a small selection of items (4 – 6 initially) from around the house and sit them on a tray or a table.

Cover the objects with a towel then see how many items that your child can name.

Once they are confident to do this, ask your child to close their eyes, take one item away from under the towel and see if he/she can say what is missing.

Take turns as a family to take an object away.

If your child needs a further challenge, you could take two objects away or add to the number of items on the tray.

We hope that you have lots of fun playing together.

Elmer Day

Saturday May 23rd is a very special day because Elmer the elephant will be celebrating his birthday. To celebrate Elmer Day lots of children from Hecklegirth will be doing some fun activities with their families so we thought it would be lovely for Elmer if we joined them too.

We would like to share this link to a package of activities which you may like to use to celebrate Elmer Day at home.

https://www.elmer.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Elmer-Day-Activity-Pack-1.pdf

As we have all been talking about and seeing rainbows so much, what better story to read than “Elmer and the Rainbow”?

Click on the video below to hear the story.

Mrs. Mackay’s Visitors

Mrs. Mackay has recently welcomed some new arrivals to her house. A parcel arrived containing two little pots which she sent us a photo of. Can you see what is inside her pots? They are tiny (and very hungry) little caterpillars.

Mrs. Mackay and her family are going to look after their caterpillars at home and she will let us know if there are any changes to them. We are looking forward to hearing about Mrs. Mackay’s new little visitors over the next few weeks. I wonder if any of you can guess what might happen?

We know that so many children love the story of “The Very Hungry Caterpillar” so click on the link below to hear the author, Eric Carle, reading it. Maybe that will help you think about what is going to happen to these little caterpillars?

Refresh our page to hear the story again.

Craft Creativity

Isaac and his big sister look very busy on their recent craft morning. It’s great to see you both having fun using such a lot of different materials and we think that all your models look super. Thank you so much for sharing your photos. We love to see and hear about what everyone is doing.