In a post yesterday it was mentioned that one of our families plans to care for tadpoles in the next few weeks. You may be interested to see this bowl of tadpoles which Isaac W is caring for as part of his little tadpole project at home. We hope that you send us a photo of their development in the future so that we can all see how they are progressing.
Tag: health and wellbeing
Bird Watching
One of our families has kindly shared these photos to let us know what they have been doing recently while Nursery is closed. Bird watching was the activity of the day for them on Monday. They have a new bird box in their garden and made their own binoculars, to keep an eye out for any visiting birds, followed by a three and a half mile bike ride.
Thank you so much for sharing your photos. It looks like you are having a great time and keeping fit too. Fingers crossed that some little birds start visiting your garden.
National Superheroes Day
Today, 28th April, is National Superheroes Day and there are certainly plenty superheroes supporting our communities in current difficult times.
Why not discuss with your children who they think are the superheroes in our community? They could choose which superhero they would like to say ‘thank you’ to and make a mask to represent them. They may even have something at home that they could use as a cape? Have fun turning into superheroes everyone.
Well Done Fern!
Fern’s family has been in touch after seeing Mr. Palmer’s bike art competition:
“This is a fun idea, Fern will love taking part. Fern has used some of her time at home to learn how to ride her bike without stabilisers!!”
Wow! Well done Fern learning to ride without stabilisers. We are all very proud of you and we are looking forward to seeing a photo of your bike art later in the week.
We hope that lots of our families will take part and send their photos to the school address gw08officehecklegirt@ea.dumgal.sch.uk or to Mr. Palmer’s address gw08palmerchris@ea.dumgal.sch.uk by Friday May 1st.
Welcome Visitors
Our Primary 6 buddies are always welcome visitors to Nursery and have been doing a super job of building relationships with our children. We have a few photos to share of their recent visits and hope that it’s not too long before the Nursery children and buddies can all meet again.
How Many Ways Can You Move?
Outdoor play is always very popular with our children and this little group was certainly displaying super gross motor skills as they found different ways to move across the frame. I wonder what you have all been doing outdoors at home in the lovely weather?
How many different ways of moving can you think of? What about climbing like this little group, running, rolling … remember all those different moves you learned in the hall? See how many different ways you can show your family to move and count them together. I wonder which is your favourite movement? We would love to hear how you get on.
Poster of Thanks
Layla and her little sister have been helping their Mum to make a poster of thanks for lots of different groups of people. That is very thoughtful of you. Thank you for sharing your great work. 
Developing Skills
Here’s a great little gallery of some super home learning. It’s certainly hard work helping to make bread but it looks like you made a great job of it. If only we could smell that bread as it looks delicious. Of course, you needed a tea break after all that hard work then it was on to plant potatoes with Daddy. Goodness, you have been very busy.
Thank you so much for sharing your developing skills at home. We would love to hear from other families about what they have been doing.
Independent Children
The children are encouraged to develop independence in Nursery and most love being given responsibility to look after their own resources. When experimenting with colour mixing the children need to wash their pots and trays to free up space to try new combinations of colours and, as you can see, they have become very independent at this. We hope that they are able to show you at home how good they are at washing pots and plates.
Senses Hunt
We hope that everyone is enjoying spending time together as a family. To help the children think about their senses of sight, touch, sound, smell and taste, they could perhaps go on a senses hunt around the house as well as the garden if you have one?
Ask the children to help you write a list of what they are looking for before they set off and then see what they can find. Suggestions might be:
- something red
- something that makes a noise
- something rough/smooth
- something that has a smell
- something you can eat
- something long
- something soft
The children will no doubt come up with much more interesting and creative  suggestions and it would be great to use their ideas, provided they are achievable of course. We would love to hear from you if anyone does this with their child.
