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Thoughts Of Kindness

We are delighted that the children in the Raindrop Room have been bringing in their hearts from home to tell us about their acts of kindness so thank you for your support with this. To help the children understand what kindness is, we also talked about their thoughts in Nursery and would like to share some of them with you.

Kyla: I help Mummy clean the toys.
Sophie E.: I take care of Toby. He’s my boyfriend and the same age as me. I do lots of things with him and then he’s happy.
Tilly: I share toys with Marnie. I help Daddy with jobs and wash the car.
Barclay: I help Mum and Dad with the washing and I tidy up toys.
Fern: I find dog poo for Daddy to pick up.
Summer: I clean up with Mummy.
William: I tidy up the toys and come downstairs nicely for breakfast. – Mum and Dad look after us.
Isaac W.: I share and I help Mummy do the washing.
Paisley S.: I help Mummy clean up and do the washing and tidy.
Mason: I draw something nice for Mummy.
Lola: I play with Rixon with dinosaurs.
Elise: I help my Daddy wash up.
Luca: I press the button on the toaster to help Mummy. I kiss Mummy.
Kara: I help Mummy and Daddy clean up.
Skye B.: I help Auntie Ang put the pegs in the basket.
Skye D.: I give Belle treats and she gives me paws.
Joely: I help Mummy pick up toys.
Noah: I help with the washing.
Marnie: I let my friends play with my toys and I play with my baby sister at home.
Margo: I share toys with the boys and girls at Eastriggs.
Alfie L.: I do baking with my Mum.

What a lot of kind children we have!

Please And Thank You

In a discussion about good manners, the children came up with some suggestions of when and where we use them.

Louie: you need to say please and thank you.
Leah: say it in the dinner hall when we’re in P1.
Evan G.: when someone gives you something.
Archie: you say thank you in the dinner hall.
Mason: when we want milk or water we say please.
Charlotte: when someone gives you a sweetie, you say thank you.
Jasmin: you say please and thank you for food and drinks and toys.
Emilia B.: every single time you say please and thank you when someone gives you something.
Alisha: I say please and thank you to my friends when they pass the butter.
Fern: say thank you if you get something.
Robin: when someone gives you a toy, you say thank you.
Macaulay: say thank you when Mummy buys you sweeties.
Remy: when the big ladies give you stuff.
Matthew: we say thank you when we have a sandwich at snack.

We are pleased to say that the children do remember to use good manners most of the time in Nursery.

How Do You Feel?

A recent focus in the Rainbow Room was on expressing our emotions, what our faces look like when we are experiencing different emotions and how we feel. We would like to share some of the children’s ideas about their feelings.

Tom: I feel happy because I love my Daddy. I feel sad because my dog died.
Alex G.: I’m happy because Lewis is here today.
Safoora: I feel happy because the sun came and Mum said I can eat ice-cream when I get home.
Danielle: Mummy and Daddy make me happy.
Jessica: I’m happy because it’s so sunny at my Nanny’s house.
Lewis: I’m happy because I went to school with my friend Evan.
Nancy: I feel tired because I woke up too early. My Mummy woke me up too early to go to school.
Zack: I felt sad when Daddy went to work.
Aoife: I feel sleepy. I woke up early to get Dad’s phone to watch Youtube.
Alexa: I’m happy because I like having sweeties.
Tiana-Rose: I feel happy because I’m going on holiday tomorrow.
Jackson: I feel sleepy because I need more sleep.
Evan W.: I feel happy because I’ve had a lovely morning in Nursery.

Healthy Eating

The children in the Rainbow Room looked at the healthy eating triangle to help them understand which foods help us grow and stay healthy and which foods are only to be eaten in moderation. The children were keen to discuss the type of foods they eat and showed an understanding of which foods are healthy.

Jackson: I like corn and carrots. I don’t like broccolis. I like oranges, apples and watermelon. Just a little cake to keep healthy.
Danielle: I like carrot and potato with gravy.
Tom: waffles go in the top triangle. You have a little bit. Your arms will grow up if you eat healthy. You have to keep exercising too. I’m like a cannonball.
Alex: it’s a peapod. The peas are inside it. I love fish chopped up. My Granny showed me how to make pasta. I would cook with a tomato. I’d make tomato sauce.
Aoife: the biscuit goes at the top with the cake. You just have a little. Bread and pasta is healthy. You can eat tomatoes, slice tomatoes and squeeze them to make juice.
Emily: it’s a triangle. You can have lots of strawberries and a little drop sweeties. I like strawberries. You can just have one lollipop.
Tiana-Rose: you must just have one cupcake.
Letti: toast is healthy. I like butter and jam on it.
Primrose: carrots are healthy. I like sweetcorn and bananas.
Nancy: you have to keep drinking and eating to keep your energy up.
Oscar: don’t eat all of the jam. It’s strawberries and sugar. Strawberries are healthy.
Safoora: bananas and oranges are healthy.
Zack: my favourite is apples. They make me stronger.
Arthur: if you eat too much sugar you get sick.
Jessica: I like water, strawberries and grapes.

Slimy Science

One of our recent experiments in the Raindrop Room was to make slime which, as you can imagine, was a very popular activity. We talked about what an experiment is and that we were investigating what would happen if we mixed certain ingredients. Washing up liquid, cornflour, water and food colouring were our starting point and the children enthusiastically followed the instructions for making slime.
There was lots of learning involved as the children measured the correct amounts, mixed them together then discussed if our experiment was successful. They showed good evaluation skills when they realised that their mixture was too watery and they had to provide suggestions of how we could improve it. In the end, as you can see, a second batch of slime was more successful and the children had a fun learning experience. We hope that you like our slimy photos.
Some of their comments were:
Remy: it wasn’t sticky. We put too much water in it.
Leo: it was getting all fuzzy. It had soap, water, corn stuff and the thing we put in playdough (food colouring).
Leah: it feels slimy. It feels really funny.
Emilia B.: don’t add too much water.
Sofia: we made it sticky.

Valentine Thoughts

As part of our Valentine’s Day discussions, the children in the Rainbow Room talked about who they love and why.

Layla: Mummy looks after me. She laughs with me and plays with me.
Alexa: Granny and Papa are kind. They give us sweeties. Papa gives me a cuddle. Belle the dog gives me a kiss.
Zack: Dave – he plays with the bricks with me.
Aoife: Mummy and Daddy and my cousins. I love them because I’m going to their house for their birthday. My Gran makes me feel good. She gives me toys. I cuddle her. You show love with kisses, huggles and chocolate.
Nancy: I love Sophia because she loves me.
Craig: Daddy and Jacob.
Arthur: I love my Mummy. She kisses me when she sees me or when she goes to work. She is kind. I give her a kiss.
Oscar: Mummy gives me medicine ’cause it makes me feel better. I give Mummy a cuddle.
Tiana-Rose: Aoife because she’s my best friend.
Isla: Mummy, Daddy, Bella and Jasper. I love everybody.
Emilia H.: I love Konrad my friend. He’s four. I’ve been in Poland to see Konrad. He’s got two dogs and lots of chicks. He gives me a kiss and a cuddle.
Freddie: Mummy and Tom because I like her and I am her friend.
Safoora: I love my sister because she likes me. I let her play with my toy.
Parker: Mummy, Daddy, Elliot, Leah and Brogan. Brogan’s my best favourite, they take me to the red shop and buy a drink and yo-yos.
Alex G.: Mummy and Daddy.
David: Mummy, Daddy, Peter and Jacob. They buy me sweeties. Mummy gives me sweeties and we go on bikes.
Cody: I love Mummy because she doesn’t shout at me.
Primrose: I love Emily because she draws.
Lewis: I love my baby Emilia at home. She smiles a lot.

Building For Bugs

The children and staff in the Raindrop Room are continuing to develop their new environment and recently began work on a bug hotel. Some of the children remembered making the bug hotel earlier in the year in the Rainbow Room garden and were keen to make one for their new garden. We think that they must have made a good job of their hotel as we have seen so many ladybirds in their garden over the last week. Let’s hope that the ladybirds tell all their friends about this super hotel.
Here are a few quotes from the children and photos of them busy at work making their new bug hotel.
Anthony: I put water on the cardboard. It made it wet for the bugs. I don’t like spiders.
Finlay: we made houses for ladybugs. We used bricks and sticks.
Matthew: we made a home for all the bugs. We used sticks, bricks, straw and cardboard. The bricks have lots of holes in for the bugs to live in.
Alisha: we made a home for the bugs. I’m rolling the box up for the bugs to sleep in. I love bugs. Purple bugs are my favourite.
Emily B.: we made a home for the bugs. We put straw in it. It keeps them warm.
Archie: we made a bug hotel. Bugs like little holes to live in. I put damp cardboard in the holes so it was wet for the bugs.

Who Helps You?

As part of our Health and Wellbeing learning at the end of last term, the children were talking about who helps them if they find something a little tricky. Here are a few of their thoughts.

Alisha: Nana holds my hand when I go to the park.
Charlotte: my Daddy helps me put my shoes on.
Kyla: Mummy helps me.
Leah: my Mummy helps me make a picture.
Aoife: my Mum holds my hand when I’m roller skating.
Oscar: Letti would help me and Mum helps me ride a big bike.
Imogen: Mummy helps me when I get hurt.
Fern: my Daddy helps me to build a tower.
Safoora: my Mum helps me do my hair.
Leo: my Mummy helps me down from a tree.
Ellie: my Daddy helps me build ’cause he’s a builder.
Sophia: my Daddy helps me reach the cookies.
Louie: Mummy helps me play a game.
Marnie: my Mum and Dad help me on the monkey bars.
William: Doreen helps me tidy up.

Who Looks After Us?

As part of our Health and Wellbeing focus, we read a story together about a little bear who felt ill and we talked about who looks after us when we are ill. The children are now becoming more confident to talk with relevance and came up with some lovely suggestions.

Louie: my Mummy and Daddy give me medicine.
Letti: Mummy gives me water and toast.
Alisha: Kobe looks after me. He sits beside me and keeps me company.
Arthur: my Mummy and Daddy. They give me medicine.
Archie: Mummy looks after me. She gives me medicine and a drink.
Layla: Daddy gives me medicine.
Emilia B.: my Mummy gets me Calpol.
Lewis: Daddy gives me beans and toast.
Oscar: I go to bed in Mummy’s bed.
Emily B.: Mummy gives me a drink and tucks me into bed.
Kai: my Daddy looks after me. He reads me a book.
Cody: my Mum makes me toast and I get milk and water.
Tiana-Rose: my Mum reads me the Frozen book.
Emilia H.: my Mum cuddles me in bed.
Zack: my Dad looks after me. He gives me a cover monster to keep me warm.
Alexa: Daddy makes toast to make me better.

It sounds like you are all very well looked after when you don’t feel so well.

Who Is Your Friend?

As part of our recent Health and Wellbeing focus on friendship, we talked to the children about who their friends are and what shows them that they are a friend. We would like to share some of their comments.

Kai: Dave’s my friend. We play with Lego.
Louie: Leah. She helps me to tidy up.
Archie: Nancy and Joshua are my friends.
Matthew: Archie’s my friend. We make a water slide together.
Fern: Marnie. She plays with the house with me.
Sophia: Evelyn’s my friend.
Imogen: Cole – he’s nice.
Remy: Kobe, my brother – he plays with me.
Kendall: I like to play in the park with my sister Ellie.
Alisha: I like to play with Nancy in the mud.
William: James plays with me and Doreen.
Leo: Fern. We play with the bricks.
Jasmin: little Cole. He plays with the Lego. Ellie: Evan. We dress up together.
Ally-May: I like to play toys with my friends.
Ellie: Evan – we do dress-up together.