Responsible Citizens – Page 11 – Hecklegirth Nursery

Bug Hotel

After doing some home improvements on our fairy garden towards the end of term, the children decided that the minibeasts visiting our outdoor area might like a hotel to stay in on their visits. Our little hedgehog home looked as if it had been used over the past few months but we needed something for the smaller visitors to the garden.
As you can see, the children worked well together to make their minibeast hotel and it was finished off with a beautiful sign. We hope that our little visitors are enjoying their holidays in our garden and look forward to investigating who is living in our hotel when we return to Nursery.

Safe In The Sun

As we have enjoyed the summer sunshine so much over the last few weeks, we read a book in Nursery called “Staying Safe in the Sun” and discussed what we know about looking after ourselves in the hot weather. Here is a selection of their ideas.

Cali: you wear a hat to keep safe. You have to drink lots of water.
Fraser: wear white clothes to keep cooler.
Imoen: I put suncream on to protect me from getting sunburned.
Kyle: go in the shade.
Matthew: you need to put suncream on your arms.
Archie: you can wear sunglasses.
Olivia: you need suncream.
Remy: put suncream on so your body doesn’t get burnt.
Mason: a big hat keeps your head cool.
Annalise: your skin goes red if it gets burned in the sun.
Louie: you put on sunglasses to keep your eyes safe.
Enid: put a sunhat on to keep your head safe.
Evan: put some more suncream on when you come out of the swimming pool.
Kai: you get burnt if you don’t put suncream on.

It sounds like the children have a good understanding of staying safe in the sun from these ideas. All they need to do now is enjoy the sunshine.

Where Would You Fly?

As the children in the afternoon waved their little butterflies goodbye, we asked them where they would like to fly to if they were butterflies.

James: I would fly to my Grandad’s farm. It won’t take me long to fly.
Safoora: on a tree.
Letti: I would fly on a balloon.
Mason: on a house. I would eat fruit.
Joshua: I would fly on a tree and dig a hole and find a door with key and lock it.
Emilia H: to a tree house with flowers and a barbecue.
Frankie: I would go into a bush of daffodils.
Archie: fly to Disney World.
Kyle: I would like to fly into a tree. It will have green leaves.
Bethany: I would fly in trees. I would find food and eat oranges, strawberries and bananas.
Jagoda: I would fly on a balloon to the garden.
Oscar: I would find a house with a garden and live in it.
Tom: I would fly in the trees.
Ally-May: I would like to fly in Scotland.
Tiana-Rose: fly to a garden with flowers and I would be happy.

Bye Bye Butterflies

It seems like they have been in Nursery for a long time but, after caring for them, we finally released the butterflies that the children had observed so closely from being little caterpillars. Although they did not seem keen to leave us, Miss Kerr gave them a helping hand to settle on our plants in the outdoor area which gave everyone a chance to have a close look at our little butterflies before we waved them goodbye. Here are the morning children giving them a fond farewell.

Meet The Parents

Our Primary 6 buddies very kindly took the time to write letters to their Nursery child’s family so that they know a little about them and they have recently introduced themselves to their parents/carers. We hope that this has eased a few of the worries you may have had about your child moving to Primary 1 and that you enjoy sharing the letters with your children. We thought that we would share a few photos of everyone meeting each other.
Thank you Primary 6 children for doing a super job. You certainly are responsible citizens and effective contributors!

The Food Rainbow

We have had so many fun activities during Health Week to help us learn about the importance of looking after our bodies. As well as the physical activities, we had a lovely visitor who helped us think about healthy eating and what it looks like. It was impressive that lots of the children were aware of sugar in foods and that it is not good for their teeth but they were surprised, for example, to learn that tomato sauce has lots of sugar in it.
I wonder if any of the children remembered to talk to their families about the food rainbow? Why not ask them at home what it means?

Happy Smiles

Here are the happy smiles of two of our recent award winners. Very well done to both of you.

Growing Plants

Jasmin’s family has been looking at the photos of the children planting their sunflower seeds:

“Jasmin was thrilled to have planted her own flower and is continuing to look after it and watch it grow at home.”

Fingers crossed that it keeps growing Jasmin and then you will be able to plant it in your garden

Caring For Our Plants

Amazingly some of the sunflower seeds that we planted have already started to grow so the children are beginning to bring them home where they will be able to care for them. We are checking our little seeds daily and each one will be sent home once they have sprouted so, if you do not have yours yet, hopefully it will not be too long until they are ready for the big move. We are looking forward to hearing about their progress over the next few weeks and months.

Big Pedal Fun

Just like the morning children, those in the afternoon participated enthusiastically in all the super activities organised for Big Pedal Fun Day. Here is a selection of the children in action on their bikes and scooters.