We hope that those who attended Eileen’s celebration of Read Aloud Day enjoyed themselves. That Elmer book did seem to be capturing the children’s attention when I called in. Unfortunately Eileen had to postpone the afternoon session as several children or parents were ill so she hopes to reschedule it for another time when you are all feeling better. Thanks again to Eileen for organising another great idea.
Tag: literacy and english
Read Aloud Day
We would like to remind you that Eileen, Family Learning Co-ordinator, is holding an activity tomorrow, 16th February, for Read Aloud Day at 11.00-11.45 or 12.15 – 1.00 when you will be able to join her for a story, activities and crafts.
Story, Rhyme and Number Sacks
Please remember that Eileen will be in the Family Learning room (opposite the school hall) tomorrow (Tuesday) 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.
Flying With The Snowman
At the end of term we read the story of “The Snowman” and listened to the music from the film. We talked about where we would like to fly if we were James in the story. Here are some of the ideas from the Rainbow Room children.
Finlay: I would go to Australia to see a duck.
Cara: go to see Santa.
Leah: go to the park to go on the slide.
Max A.: I would go to the North Pole to see Santa.
Jacob: go to Africa.
Luca: go to America and go to the toy shop.
Sian: go to Spain.
Owen: I’d fly to the cafe to get chips and sausage and tattie scone.
Ben W.: I would go to Dundee.
Dylan: I would go to Dumfries to get a new computer.
Summer: to America.
Caidy: fly to the shops for sweets.
Thom: I would go to London to see some pictures.
Kacey: I would get an ice-cream with the snowman.
Great ideas boys and girls! All those journeys sound super.
Camp Fire Chat
Camp fires are a great place for a chat and some of the afternoon children asked today if they could have a fire outdoors like we had earlier in the month when we were learning about staying safe on Bonfire Night. We hunted out everything we needed and quickly had our fire on the go. Some of the children noticed a pile of broken pieces of wood we had been storing to one side and suggested that we add them to our fire which made for a great little blaze. 
It was lovely to hear the children chatting as they sat by the fire and there was lots of valuable conversation about why we needed to keep our distance as well as great discussion about the wonderful smell and sounds created by our fire.
Sunshine Stories
After missing their initial visit to Annan library two weeks ago due to poor weather conditions, the children in the Sunshine Room finally got their chance to visit the library on Monday. They displayed super behaviour and listened well to the stories that Tina had chosen for them. Thank you to the kind Mummy, Daddy and Granny who made our trip possible by coming with us. We look forward to our next visit soon.
Fun Story Telling
Owen’s Dad went to the Annan library with us on our first visit and left a comment to say how much he enjoyed it.
“Lovely morning spent with the kids at the library, the kids were very well mannered and well behaved. Owen really enjoyed the stories, Marion told them really well, she made it fun!”
We agree that Marion is a great storyteller. Thank you very much for coming with us. We hope that you’ll be free another Monday to join us. Well done boys and girls for being so polite and well behaved – we were very proud of you.
Ben’s Library Visit
Ben’s family has been looking at the photos of our recent library visit:
“Ben really enjoyed visiting the library with his nursery friends and teachers. In the holidays he likes to stay at his Grandma’s house in Waterbeck because the library van stops right outside her house and he gets to go in the van and choose some books.”
That sounds really exciting Ben! What a lovely treat when you’re at Grandma’s house to have the library come to you.
“We Love You Hugless Douglas”
Thom and his Mum left a comment on our visit to Annan library:
“We enjoyed our Library visit, our books were due back that week and Thom was extremely pleased to find the book Marion read to us, ‘we love you hugless Douglas’ and guess what? It’s at our house now, we’ve read it a few times to Daddy and Sophie!”
It was a great book and everyone listened well to that one. I hope that Daddy and Sophie enjoyed it too Thom. It was lucky that it was still there when you went back. Thank you to your Mum for coming along to the library. It’s great to have parents with us.
Library Fun
Two of our parents have been looking at the post about our visit to the library.
“Thank u for giving the children this great opportunity for good link with the library. Dylan loves books and always loves going to the library and he thinks it’s great that he is getting to go with nursery too. After his first visit with nursery he asked to go and get the monster truck book he had a look at when he went with nursery “
I hope the monster truck book was there when you went back to the library Dylan? You are lucky going there with your family and Nursery.
“Kacey really enjoyed her library visit ,the only complaint she had was the chairs are to low for the table and she couldn’t see her book! Good job Owens daddy was there to read it to her..x”
Next time we go to the library we’ll have to find you a better seat Kacey but it was kind of Owen’s Dad to help you out.
