You can’t beat a fire for a chat and a tasty treat on a chilly day and the Raindrop Room certainly seemed to enjoy their recent outdoor cooking experience. Marshmallows and toast were on offer and most children enjoyed cooking their own, showing good listening skills to stay safe.
Regardless of weather, most children love outdoor play and a recent frosty morning provided a small group with the opportunity to play football on the school field to keep warm. When football lost their interest, some decided that it was frosty enough to try making snow angels. A fun morning was certainly had by those happy to brave the cold.
As well as lots of great learning activities linked to Chinese New Year, the children in both our Nursery rooms had a taste of Chinese food as part of their experience. Noodles were tricky to manage but the children persevered and had good fun sampling the different foods they were offered.
We may still be in the depths of Winter but our thoughts have begun to turn to warmer weather and some of the children in the Rainbow Room have been having a little tidy of the garden area in preparation for Spring. Great work those who helped – your boxes look a lot better now.
Huge congratulations go to these recent award winners. Very well done all of you! You thoroughly deserved your certificates.
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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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.
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.
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.
Very well done to the award winners from last week. We are very proud of you both. Keep up the good work!
