The Chinese restaurant is now very popular and some are getting right in the spirit of it. It’s lovely to hear the children being so polite to their customers as they take their orders and some of the dishes on offer have sounded very interesting. There have been lots of writing opportunities as the children write down what their customers want. The till is always a popular addition in the role play area and our restaurant till helps to develop the children’s learning about money. We thought these photos of life in the restaurant were too good not to be shared. 
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Can We Have Some Thistles Please?
Burns Celebration
We would like to remind everyone that we will be holding a small Burns celebration in Nursery tomorrow, 24th January. It would add to the occasion if the children could wear a little ‘touch o’ tartan’ if possible. Hopefully most of them have or can borrow a hairband, a ribbon or a scarf for the day and anyone who has a kilt or a tartan outfit would certainly help us to celebrate the day in style but the main thing is simply to come and enjoy the day.
The children have done well this week learning their Scottish songs and are looking forward to performing them tomorrow to their families at the end of the Nursery sessions (11.20 and 2.50).
Primary 6 In Nursery
Children from Primary 6 have been coming to Nursery to play with our children since before Christmas and Nursery children have absolutely loved their visits. The older children have learned how to relate to young children and have built good relationships with them to the extent that some are chatting in the garden at school break time even when it’s not a day for visits. It’s also been lovely that we have had some Primary 6 children who have been able to talk to our Polish children in their native language which has added to their experience.
Thank you to all Primary 6 children who are involved in Nursery. We appreciate that you have volunteered to come to play with our children, sometimes in your own break time, and hope that you will continue to visit us. Thank you also to Mrs. Johnston and Miss McAuley for encouraging Primary 6 to take on this important role.
Learning About Winter
It sounds like Carmen is enjoying learning about winter as her Mum commented:
“Carmen is enjoying the winter topic. She loved designing her snowmen at home. She says it great fun. When we are about to set off for nursery in the morning I ask her what’s the weather like today Carmen and she tells me. When she saw the floods on the TV Carmen sayed to me ” mummy I wish I could help those people” I said and how would you help them Carmen she sayed ” mummy they could all come and stay at ours and have a sleepover until there house has dried up”. Aw how cute! So she understands how the bad weather affects people and that she cares!”
How kind of Carmen to think of others. We did talk about the floods and were pleasantly surprised by how much the children understood about them. We have also enjoyed seeing all the different snowmen arriving in Nursery and will hopefully put a few photos on the blog soon.
Christmas Chocolate
With the school Christmas Fayre on Thursday of this week, we have been making chocolate Christmas shapes to sell on our stall. Predicting what would happen when we put chocolate in the microwave then the fridge produced some thoughtful conversations. We also used numeracy skills to count the squares of chocolate and the number of moulds we had to fill, as well as reading the dial to set the microwave so there was a lot of learning going on as we prepared our chocolate shapes.
We hope that lots of Nursery children and their families will be able to come to the Christmas Fayre on Thursday (6.00 – 8.00). We can recommend the chocolate shapes to anyone who has a little money to spend – they were certainly made with lots of tender loving care.
Last Chance To Order
Thank you to everyone who has placed an order for calendars. The children have been working hard to make all the orders to help raise money for their Christmas party and many of you should now have your calendars. We would like to remind you that this is the last week to place your orders and we hope that, at £2.50, you feel that this is a bargain present for family members.
Safety Stars
Congratulations to this week’s Star Award winners who offered good ideas about how to stay safe when we were talking about Bonfire Night. Well done both of you, you deserved those certificates for helping everyone think about safety near a bonfire and fireworks.
Why Has A Digger Come To Nursery?
A digger and trailer arrived unexpectedly at Nursery today which caused quite a bit of excitement for those busy in the garden. It was even more exciting when we realised that Robbie’s Dad had come with it and that he was bringing us lots of bark to top up our garden.
Suddenly our day changed and we all had to get our spades and wheelbarrows into action to transport the huge pile of bark into the digging area of the Nursery garden. What fantastic teamwork and perseverance the children showed, working so well together as they shovelled it into wheelbarrows, took them up the ramp into the garden and raked the bark flat. They were all taking turns and helping each other if the wheelbarrow was a bit tricky to manage – getting it up that ramp is not as easy as you would think. Very well done to the gardening team – we couldn’t have managed without you. We hope that everyone appreciates your hard work.
Cooking Crumble
As we have been learning about Harvest and what happens in Autumn, some of the children used apples to make a crumble. It’s amazing how much learning can be developed from a simple cooking activity: the importance of hygiene and safety in the kitchen, fine motor control, counting and chopping skills, using the technology of a microwave and the effect of heat on the apples. Hopefully, you can see from these photos that the children are demonstrating some impressive skills. Most important of all, they had fun as they were learning.
