Danny’s family were very pleased with his Star Award last week and made a lovely comment on his photo:
“What a lovely photo and well done danny we are all proud of you keep up the hard work x”
He looks like a proud little star and rightly so. Well done, Danny, for being so helpful.
Well done to this week’s Star Award winners. As always, Miss Wilson was very impressed with our Nursery children. This week two of them received certificates for being helpful and for always trying their best. Well done to you both. We hope your families are proud of you.
Along with many schools and nurseries throughout the country, the children celebrated “Mini Pots of Care Day” last week by decorating pot wrappers for the daffodils they had nurtured over the winter and then taking their pots home to someone they care about. As well as being a fantastic opportunity to contrbute to society, this project provided great opportunities to learn about how plants grow.
As a result of the generous sponsorship of families and friends, we are delighted to be able to send a grand sum of £234.70 to Marie Curie Cancer Care. We would like to say a huge thank you to those of you who helped us raise this excellent total. We feel sure that our donation will be put to good use.
Last week Harli did very well and received a Star Award from Miss Wilson. Her family left a lovely message for her:
“Mummy and Daddy are very proud of Harli for getting her certificate and being caring towards others!”
Well done Harli! You deserved that certificate.
Well done to this week’s Star Award winners. They have all shown themselves to be kind and caring pupils who are good at helping others and sharing. Don’t they look proud with their certificates?
As we are now beginning to learn about our community and the jobs we might do when we grow up, Summer’s Daddy kindly spent a morning last week with the children in both the Rainbow and the Sunshine Rooms, teaching them about his work on a farm.
However, he didn’t come alone but brought a calf and two lambs which were all less than a week old, as well as the Mummy sheep, which were the best teaching resources possible. The children learned so much about what the animals eat, where they stay and how they are looked after. They learned about animal cake, which they were disappointed to find did not have cherries or chocolate, and smelt silage as well as getting plenty opportunities to stroke the animals.
The children also found out lots about the farm from all the fantastic photos Summer’s Daddy brought and left in Nursery for us. These will be very useful to help us to talk about working on a farm, especially with the helpful captions on the back explaining everything.
We want to say a huge thank-you to Summer’s Daddy for taking time to help us in this way. You provided a wonderful experience for the children which they will remember for a long time.
Recently Nursery morning children were invited to a “Bring and Buy Sale” by P5/4. As you can see, it was a busy and exciting event where there was lots for the children to spend their money on. Some chose toys and books, others preferred the cake stall but most found something they wanted to buy.
It was tricky managing to work out which coins we needed but P5/4 were very patient and helpful with all our children. Thank you to everyone in P5/4 for inviting us to your very well organised event, for your lovely manners and for your kindness and patience with the Nursery children. We would also like to congratulate you on raising over £230 for Guide Dogs for the Blind – you should be very proud of yourselves.
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Last week we started to learn about Chinese New Year. We were very lucky to have a special visitor who has had first hand experience of the celebrations in China. Mrs. McGhie had everyone enthralled as she told us the story of the big monster and we were very good at using chopsticks and pans to make a loud noise to scare it away as we helped to tell the story.
We learned that that this is the year of the snake and all about the animals race, about lai see envelopes, fireworks, how children learn to use chopsticks, about a celebration feast, the clothes that people wear… we just learned so much. It was all very interesting to find out from someone who has had personal experience and the children loved seeing and handling all the exciting things in Mrs. McGhie’s basket.
After finishing with a dragon dance, we made Chinese food for snack which included a taste of Chinese tea that Mrs. McGhie had brought for us.
What a marvellous way to learn about someone else’s culture and celebrations. Thank you Mrs. McGhie for bringing Chinese New Year to life for the children. You gave us a fantastic learning experience.
As we moved from learning about Scotland to China, with Chinese New Year celebrations approaching, we discussed what we think China and Chinese people might be like. Here are some of the children’s ideas.
Hannah: they like dragons.
Scott: they build their houses of hay and sticks.
Ericka: they dress up in Chinese costumes.
Leah: they use chopsticks for eating noodles.
Rohan: I know how they make dragon costumes. They use sticks. The scales are made of paper.
Paige: they look different from us.
Neve: they eat with chopsticks and they eat stuff with carrots in. They like fireworks.
Mark: they make vegetables.
Jessica: they wear dresses and a cardigan on top.
Matthew: they look different. They’ve got different faces.
Joseph: the houses are red and green.
Calise: they eat chicken.
Hayden: they eat chicken and fried rice.
Joao: it’s a hot country.
