As promised, here are photos of the children from the Rainbow Room enjoying taking part in our “Share a Story Month” activity. They too had fun searching for all the objects that Granny bought in the story “Granny Went To Market” and enjoyed the bells and drums as much as the children in the Sunshine Room did. Thank you to Eileen, our Family Learning Co-ordinator, for organising this lovely activity and to those parents who were able to join us.
To celebrate “Share a Story Month” we recently held a family learning event where we had great fun telling the story of “Granny Went To Market”, with the children developing their learning across several areas of the curriculum.
All the children took part in the story telling which involved finding a number on the globe to show us the different countries Granny visited and then finding the items from the story hidden in the Nursery. As you can see, the children particularly loved experimenting with the bells and drums that they found, making little bands once the story was finished. We hope that those parents who joined us enjoyed this celebration of storytelling as much as we did. Here are some photos of the children in the Sunshine Room taking part. We will post photos of the Rainbow Room soon.
As promised after our visit to his church, Rev. McGougan visited Nursery last week to tell us the story of Noah’s ark and it was lovely to have several parents and younger children joining us, especially as it was Hecklegirth Open Day. 
Fortunately we had our own ark out as part of the play so some of the children were able to help Rev. McGougan tell the story by putting the animals in the ark when we came to that part of the story. Thank you to Rev. McGougan for taking time out of his busy week to spend time with us – it’s much appreciated.
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Summer’s family has been having a look at the photos of the children mixing colours outdoors:
“This will explain why Summer has started mixing all the paint together at home! I thought she was just being messy when actually she is learning. Summer is also enjoying learning the first letter of words which you have been doing in nursery, it has become her favourite game. She says the letter ‘s’ then names all the words she knows beginning with the letter. We are impressed!”
Well done Summer! It sounds like you’ve been sharing lots of your learning at home with your family.
The two new benches we bought recently will be a great addition to the garden for the summer term. They should be very useful for outdoors snacks, as the weather gets warmer, as well as a handy space for drawing and writing. As you can see, as soon as the benches arrived, the children put them to good use.
The children and families who took part in Eileen’s rearranged Read Aloud session last week look like they had a lot of fun. Easter crafts are available next week in the Family Learning room so please remember to add your names to the list on the board in the corridor if you would like to take part.
Bethany’s family likes the photos of Primary 2 reading their stories in Nursery:
“Bethany was very excited because she was able to read her story to her little brother! Noah seemed to enjoy it too!”
Thank you to Primary 2 and Mrs. Mahon for a great visit. It was lovely to see some brothers and sisters reading together and all the children seemed to enjoy your visit.
We would like to remind you that Eileen’s rearranged Read Aloud session is on tomorrow, March 1st, from 12.15 until 1.00 when story, activities and crafts will be available in the Family Learning Room. We hope that those who missed last time through illness are feeling better now and are able to attend.
Primary 2 has been very busy lately, writing their own version of the story “That’s Not My Teddy”. Not only was each child an author but an illustrator too, as they designed their own teddy characters in their stories. The final books looked wonderful and Primary 2 children kindly visited us one afternoon recently to read their stories to Nursery children. Well done all the boys and girls from Primary 2. We think that you are super authors and illustrators and the Nursery children thoroughly enjoyed your visit.
We talked recently about who we love and why. There were so many lovely answers that we thought we would share some with you.
Max L: I love my Mummy because she lets me bring my bike to school.
Cara: my Daddy because he says I’m the bestest girl ever.
Erica: I love my cats.
Finlay: I love my Mummy because she gives me lots of cuddles and kisses.
Nadia: I love my brother, my Mummy and my Daddy.
James: I love my Grandad. He gives me lollipops on a hot day in the Landrover.
Harris: I love my Mam because she is my best friend.
Adam: I love my Mummy and Daddy.
Georgia: I love my Mummy. I got lots of dresses off her.
Emma: I love my Mummy. She helps me to make gingerbread men.
Keegan: I love Mummy. She lets me watch movies.
Noah: I love Mummy and Bethany – they’re good at playing.
Owen: I love Liam. He plays with me at his house.
Finn: I love my Mummy and Daddy.
Ewan: I love Effie. She’s in another school.
Hannah: I love my rabbit. She is so soft.
Aoife: I love my whole family.
Jenson: I love Tom. He’s my friend.
