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Tag: Successful Learners
Autumn Detectives
As part of our recent learning about the changing seasons, a group of children visited the nature area to look for signs of Autumn and were very good detectives, collecting lots of natural materials which they then used to produce their own works of art back in the Nursery garden. As you can see, they decided to have a little picnic in the nature area as a reward for all their hard work.
Talking About Autumn
Learning about Autumn this term has been helped greatly by the children’s super contributions to our display. Chestnuts, acorns, various berries and leaves of so many colours have been collected by the children and their families. Good talking skills have been evident as the children shared their finds with others and talked about where they had found them. Thank you so much to all those families who have taken the time to talk to their children about the signs of Autumn and have helped them find examples. The children have shown great enthusiasm to look at and talk about our display.
Hecklegirth Clinic
Life at Hecklegirth Clinic has been hectic over the last few weeks as dolls and children alike have been examined and cured of so many broken limbs, coughs, sore tummies and every other ailment you can imagine. As you can see, there has been a large staff of willing doctors and nurses to help out at our clinic, writing down prescriptions and notes then administering the correct medicine or applying a bandage to cure their poor patients. We think that we might have some budding medical staff of the future here in Hecklegirth Nursery and hope that you enjoy the photos of the children at work.
Why Do We Need Numbers?
As part of our recent activities based on National Maths Week, we talked to the children about why we need numbers. Here are a few of their ideas.
Brooke: you have numbers on buses so you know where you’re going to and what one to go on.
Imoen: the postman needs to know your number.
Olivia B.: we have clocks with numbers so we can see what time it is.
Matthew: I’ve got a new letter box with a number.
Enid: I’ve got a number on my door so people know where you live.
Patrick: you have signs on the road with letters and numbers to show you where to go.
Louie: you need numbers to count.
Olivia H.: there’s numbers on a clock.
James: you need a number on your shirt to say what team you’re in to play rugby.
Cali: my door is number three.
We hope that everyone is keeping an eye out for numbers when they are out and about with their families. I wonder how many other places you can find numbers?
Bookbug Rhyme Time
This week some of the morning children were invited to a Bookbug Rhyme Time event, kindly arranged by Annan library staff, at Newington Sports Centre. Fortunately the weather was kind so our first walk out in the community was very pleasant and the children enjoyed lots of participation in rhyme activities. The Bookbug character joined in some of the songs and games with us which added to the fun for everyone and there was lots of opportunity to practise those all important rhymes. Thank you very much to those parents/carers who gave up their time to accompany us on Tuesday. We really appreciate your help.
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Science in the Sun
As promised, we have had our first fire of the year with the afternoon children. It was a strange mix of an activity as we sat and ate ice lollies in the sun at the same time as enjoying the warmth of the fire.
However, this helped us to talk about hot and cold and we made our own little experiment as we predicted and tested what would happen if we put a piece of ice lolly on a bit of metal on the fire. We were quite surprised how long it took for the ice to melt and the children were also interested to hear the noise that it made as it melted. Good science brains boys and girls.
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Eadie’s Numbers
Shape Art
As part of our work for Maths Week, the children focussed their learning on shape and have experimented with printing using shapes in the art area. As you can see they have produced some bright, attractive pieces of artwork at the same time as developing their learning about maths.
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