literacy and english – Page 23 – Hecklegirth Nursery

Jack Frost

Before reading a story, with the afternoon children, called “Jack Frost” we talked about what Jack Frost might look like. The children found it tricky to think about something that they had never seen but they did well to come up with these ideas.

Joshua H: he’s black and white and green. At night time the dark frost comes leaking and he sees it then he gets back to bed.
Ethan: he’s got a hat. He’s red.
Vinnie: he’s got a top. I guess it’s blue.
Owen: he frosts everything. He looks like icy. He’s small ‘cause you can’t see him. He eats ice.
Harvey M: he puts frost on people’s cars
Neve: he’s white. He’s like a snowman.
Eli: it’s white. He’s big and he has arms and has a carrot and some stones. He looks like a snowman.
Kobi: he’s got a big, fat snow.
Enid: he’s big and black.
Meris: he’s black. He frosts all the ice. He eats sausage.
Bethany: he’s white and he’s frosty.
Halle: he puts Jack Frost on the windows. He’s a man. He’s yellow.
Charlie: he’s white and he’s small.

Activity Bags

Please remember that Eileen is in the Family Learning room (opposite the school hall) on Tuesdays to give out story, rhyme and number bags for your child to take home. Each story/rhyme bag has a book and a game or puppets connected to the story/rhyme. The number bags contain a game and all can be borrowed for one week.

If your child attends Nursery in the mornings, you can collect a bag at the end of the morning session and afternoon children can collect their bag at the start of the session at 12.15. We hope that lots of families will take the opportunity again this term to have fun with learning at home by borrowing these bags and we thank Eileen for organising it for us.

Happy Days

We love this sign that one of the children made last term and we have it displayed. Let’s hope that we have another happy term as we love the sound of laughter in Nursery.

Foam Fun

Towards the end of term the children enjoyed experimenting with foam on a small table. Some took the opportunity to draw in the foam or write their names while others loved the sensory experience and were able to talk about how the foam felt and smelled which encouraged literacy skills as the children thought about their choice of words. Above all, they had great fun as we hope you can see from these photos.

Activity Bags Library

We would like to remind you that tomorrow, Tuesday 22nd November, is the first day for our activity bags “library”. The bags will be given out from the Family Learning room opposite the school hall.
If your child attends morning sessions you can collect a bag at the end of the session from Eileen, our Family Learning Co-ordinator. The bag should then be returned the following Tuesday at the start of the morning session. Please leave the returned bag on your child’s peg and Eileen will collect it from there.
If your child attends Nursery in the afternoon you can collect a bag when you bring your child at the start of the session. You should bring your bag to the Family Learning room when you collect a new one.
If you would like an activity bag but can’t collect on a Tuesday please let Eileen know and she will try to make alternative arrangements.

“It’s Slime, Slime, Slime!”

We all had great fun recently with a lovely present from Lily’s Mum who brought in a big tray of green gloop. As you can see from the photos below, the children absolutely loved this messy experience and, as well as the photos, we have captured some of their comments on how it felt.

Harvey L.: it’s wobbly.
Leah P.: it’s squidgy.
Danielle: it’s cold.
Leah M.: it feels yukky. It’s like glue and sugar. It’s sliding off my fingers.
Quinn: it’s so gooey.
Lily: it’s slime, slime, slime.
Owen: it’s like glue.
Finlay: it’s all slime.
Francesca: it feels like sticky soap.
Chloe: it feels weird. I can’t get it off my hands.
Harris N.: it’s gooey. It’s not dry but it’s kind of dry. It smells like porridge.
Callum: it feels like sparkles.
Isobella: it’s getting very hard.

Nursery Rules

We have been talking to the children about rules in Nursery and why we need them. Already it seems that lots of children are beginning to understand our rules and the reason for them. Here are a few of their ideas.

Lucie: don’t run in Nursery. You might slip over something.
Owen: you have to be quiet.
Kenzie: you don’t hit in Nursery and you don’t push and you definitely don’t kick.
Enid: we don’t rip books.
Sally: no fighting.
Noah: you walk so you don’t trip.
Callum: we need to be friends.
Summer: have a little voice or your ears might get sore.
Reuben: you’re not allowed to hit.
Chloe: we need to tidy.
Riley: you don’t hit.
Harper: take turns.
Ava: no shouting.
Lily: you shouldn’t run away. We have to be nice.
Eli: no hitting.
Harvey L: don’t push.

Well done boys and girls. It sounds like you are thinking about what we can do to stay safe and happy in Nursery.

Butterfly Thoughts

The Sunshine Room children have also had discussions about where our butterflies might have gone when we left them on the flowers. We would like to share their thoughts.

Lexi: to a nest.

Neve: to some sandcastles.

Wareeshah: to a flower for food.

Lucy: they might go to a shop – it might be a perfume shop.

Henley: they’ll go to get fruit from Tesco.

Mollie: if it rains a leaf roof would shelter them.

Gabriel: they go to a butterfly house made of flowers.

Harper: to butterfly world.

Tom: somewhere warm. Maybe in a hole in a tree.

Hannah: to a flower garden.

Courtney: in a shed.

Erica: to the beach.

Ellie: to a house.

Aoife: in a tree.

What lovely ideas the Sunshine children had. We hope that our butterflies are safe and happy.

Where Have Our Butterflies Gone?

As we waved our butterflies off to the wider world, we talked about where they might go. Here are some of the ideas from the children in the Rainbow Room.

Summer: Edinburgh.
Leah P: to a garden.
George: to Australia.
Isaac: by the river.
Dylan: to the zoo to see other animals.
Joshua M: they’re going to Gretna and will fly every day.
Ben W.: to the meadows.
Grace: to Gran Canaria to get warm.
James: to another flower to get some nectar.
Sian: they will fly everywhere.
Rahat: to Africa.
Daisy: fly away outside.
Orla: to Ibiza.
Emma: to London.
Owen: to his Granny’s house.
Chloe: to Blackpool.
Noah: over the swimming pool.
Brogan: up in the sky to his house.
Paulina: to her home.

Please let us know if you think you see them anywhere boys and girls.