Scotland – Page 4 – Hecklegirth Nursery

Learning About Scotland

It’s lovely to see that you are able to make comments on our blog again. Georgia’s Mum enjoyed seeing the photos of the children making tartan:

“My clever girl”

Olivia’s Mum is also delighted with her learning about Scotland:

“What super concentration! We have been really impressed by Olivia’s knowledge of Robbie Burns!! She has loved learning all the Scottish songs and in particular the Highland dancing which she has been teaching her sister! She was very upset to miss the Burns Supper though!:( Hope you all had fun!”

We did enjoy our Burns supper but we missed you Olivia. We will put photos on the blog soon so that you can see everyone. Well done for teaching your little sister the dance moves – she will know how to dance when she is a little older and comes to Nursery.

Highland Dancing

With the mood of Burns Day in the air, we put on some Scottish music this week and the children have loved it. This morning some had great fun enthusiastically learning a few steps of Highland dancing to the sound of the pipes. Just look at the happy faces of those dancers!
Click then click again on the photos for a clearer view.

Tartan Everywhere

As mentioned below, the children have been keen to access the art area as they have used different techniques to design their own tartan. As well as sticking different coloured strips to design tartan, they have been creating patterns with paint and different sizes of rollers as well as experimenting with a Paint program on the computer. I wonder if anyone can spot their own tartan?

Musical Magic

The Rainbow Room children were very lucky recently to hear some genuine Scottish fiddle music when James’ Mum came in to play for us. They learned lots about the fiddle and seemed particularly surprised to learn that the hair on the bow was from a horse’s tail. They saw what music looks like and enjoyed clapping along to a great variety of Scottish tunes. We talked about how different pieces made us feel and James Mum was even kind enough to play “Three Craws” so that we could all sing along. Just when we thought that there was nothing left to be amazed at, James’ Mum produced a penny whistle and let us hear what that sounded like.
We would like to thank James’ Mum very much for spending time with us and providing the children with a great experience. Thank you also to her superb assistant James who was so good at holding the music and made a great attempt at being a musician himself. We look forward to hearing his performances when he is a little older.

More Marvellous Monsters

Just when we thought we had seen all the wonderful monsters we were going to see, another two little monsters arrived in Nursery today. Well done both of you – we love your monsters too.

Monster Fun

Neve and Kacey’s families have been looking at our monster photos:

“Neve really enjoyed making her monster loved sticking all the sticky bits on”

“Kacey had great fun making her Loch Ness monster..x”

We love the monsters – they are all so different. It’s been great seeing what everyone has been doing at home.

Hecklegirth Monsters

Thank you so much to all the families who worked with their children to produce such wonderful Hecklegirth monsters. We think that they are all fantastic and it has been clear how much the children have enjoyed this activity by the enthusiasm they have shown when telling us about them. We hope that you enjoy our monster gallery.

Lovely Singing

Noah’s family has been looking at the photos of our Burns celebration:

“I really enjoyed hearing the lovely songs you’ve been learning!
I hope Noah didn’t eat all the oatcakes!”

Thank you for coming to hear the children sing. It makes such a difference to them to perform to a lovely audience. All the Scottish food went down very well with everyone which was great to see.