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News From Sophie

Sophie E’s family enjoyed Mrs. Irving’s accordion video:

“Sophie loved watching this she’s very impressed! She’s missing nursery so much. We have been enjoying the good weather and going on lots of adventures. We have even grown some caterpillars into butterflies and set them free, its amazing to watch.”

We are impressed too Sophie. I think we will have to have Mrs. Irving bring her accordion in to Nursery for a live performance once we are back. Well done for looking after your caterpillars until they turned into butterflies. No doubt they will be happy enjoying the lovely sunshine too.
Thank you for getting in touch. It’s lovely to hear from you and we are missing everyone too.

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.

We’re Going On A Bear Hunt

One of the children’s favourite stories in Nursery is “We’re Going on a Bear Hunt” and if you click on the link below you can see the author Michael Rosen reading the story which we feel sure the children will thoroughly enjoy. Ask if they can remember the special word for the person who writes a story as we have talked a lot about the term ‘author’ as well as ‘title’ and ‘illustrator.

This is such a brilliant book to read over and over again and Michael Rosen’s voice and facial expressions are brilliant. The repetition helps children to recall the story and retell it themselves. See if they can join in with the story and actions as many of them love to do this in Nursery.

Ask them what they think happened to the bear and how they think he was feeling at the end of the story. Who does he live with or does he live alone? What will he eat for his tea? Maybe they could make a cave for their own teddy bear using an old cereal box or using material, such as towels, under a chair or a table?

Refresh our page to watch the video again.

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.

Bike Art Competition

We have a message below for Mr. Palmer who is setting you a challenge. We are looking forward to seeing what you all do. Have fun!

 

 

Morning everyone.

This would normally be the Big Pedal fortnight if we were at school and nursery. The playground would start to fill up with bikes and scooters with more of you travelling to nursery that way. We would have a ‘Skills day’ with Annan Cycling Club and Katie and a Cycling breakfast too. I hope many of you are still managing to get out on your bike and scooter, either in the garden or out on family bike rides.

As we can’t be at nursery for the Big Pedal we are going to have a cycling related competition from home instead this week. The challenge if you want to take part is to create your own ‘Bike Art’. You can use any materials from your home (ask a parent/carer to help you) to design your own special bike.

To help you with ideas go to the following link:

Indoor Ideas

You will see Katie, our local Ibike officer for Dumfries and Galloway explaining how to make Bike Art.

Please send your competition entry in as a picture to the school office on gw08officehecklegirt@ea.dumgal.sch.uk or email me on gw08palmerchris@ea.dumgal.sch.uk by Friday 1st May.

I’m looking forward to seeing all your finished entries. There will be a winner and runner up prize for Nursery-P1, P2-P4 and P5-7. Katie has kindly donated some t-shirts and water bottles for prizes.

There are plenty of other bike related ideas that we can do at home on https://ibike.sustrans.org.uk/indoor-ideas/ and they change each week so go and have a look.

Have a good week everyone.

Mr Palmer

News From Isaac

Isaac W’s family has been looking at our recent posts and kindly left us some comments.

They enjoyed the video of Mrs. Irving and her son playing Humpty Dumpty:
“We have just watched this, Isaac said it sounds good. xx”
We are certainly looking forward to Mrs. Irving bringing her accordion in to Nursery in the future. Glad you enjoyed it Isaac.

They liked the photo of Isaac when the buddies visited us:
“Excellent picture, Isaac looks happy. xx”
The Nursery children did love those visits. Let’s hope we can enjoy them again in the not too distant future.

It was also great to hear that Isaac is looking after his plants:
“Isaac has been taking great care of our plants and he has been happily watering them every day as we are having such nice weather. Next project is a fairy garden…..we will send some pictures. Isaac is most definitely missing his Nursery family.”

Well done Isaac! We are all missing you too. A fairy garden sounds wonderful.

Please send any photos to the school address gw08officehecklegirt@ea.dumgal.sch.uk and they will be forwarded to us to put on the blog.

Thank you for taking the time to leave us message. It’s so nice to hear from you.

Menus

We have had a query from one of our families about the lunch menus which some may not have returned before Nursery closed. Please do not worry about this as you will be able to hand menus in if we return to Nursery before summer and we can place the children’s orders with the kitchen then.

We have also been asked about the best method to send photos from home to share on our blog. We suggest that you e-mail them to the school address below

gw08officehecklegirt@ea.dumgal.sch.uk 

with a small description of what the children were doing and let us know if you would like your child’s first name used in the post or would prefer that we did not.

Any written messages can be sent to the blog by clicking on the ‘Leave a comment’ link to the left of a post. We would love to hear from you all.

Please take the opportunity to e-mail the school address for any further concerns or worries. We would like to help in any way we can and hope that you are all staying safe and well.

Fun Home Activities

Here is another little gallery of some great activities from home. We love your beautifully decorated hat and the plants look bright and colourful to cheer up your garden. I wonder if you are needing to water them lots as we don’t seem to have had rain for such a long time? It’s great to have the responsibility of looking after your own plants and we feel sure that you will do a super job of it.

Easter Fun

We are delighted to be able to share more photos from home of what some of our children were doing over Easter. One of our families worked together to decorate their home beautifully while the other one has been very busy decorating eggs and making chocolate nests.

Thank you for sharing your photos. It’s lovely to see what great activities you have been enjoying.

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