Successful Learners – Page 44 – Hecklegirth Nursery

Scottish Fiddle Music

As part of our learning about Scotland, the morning children were very lucky this week to hear some genuine Scottish fiddle music when Edward’s Mum came in to play for us. They saw what music looks like and, as you can see, enjoyed clapping along to a great variety of Scottish tunes and nursery rhymes. We talked about how different pieces made us feel and Edward did a super job of holding the music while his Mum played.
We would like to thank Edward’s Mum very much for spending time with us and providing the children with a great experience.
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Dancing at Home

It’s so nice to see a family comment now that our blog problems are solved. Ava’s family has been looking at the photos of the children trying out Highland dancing:

“Ava had great fun doing the highland dancing she was even doing it at home.”

Well done Ava for having a go at home. The children really did enjoy dancing to the Scottish music and were asking for it again today.

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!
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Jack Frost

Before reading a story, with the afternoon children, called “Jack Frost” we talked about what Jack Frost might look like. The children found it tricky to think about something that they had never seen but they did well to come up with these ideas.

Joshua H: he’s black and white and green. At night time the dark frost comes leaking and he sees it then he gets back to bed.
Ethan: he’s got a hat. He’s red.
Vinnie: he’s got a top. I guess it’s blue.
Owen: he frosts everything. He looks like icy. He’s small ‘cause you can’t see him. He eats ice.
Harvey M: he puts frost on people’s cars
Neve: he’s white. He’s like a snowman.
Eli: it’s white. He’s big and he has arms and has a carrot and some stones. He looks like a snowman.
Kobi: he’s got a big, fat snow.
Enid: he’s big and black.
Meris: he’s black. He frosts all the ice. He eats sausage.
Bethany: he’s white and he’s frosty.
Halle: he puts Jack Frost on the windows. He’s a man. He’s yellow.
Charlie: he’s white and he’s small.

Activity Bags

Please remember that Eileen is in the Family Learning room (opposite the school hall) on Tuesdays to give out story, rhyme and number bags for your child to take home. Each story/rhyme bag has a book and a game or puppets connected to the story/rhyme. The number bags contain a game and all can be borrowed for one week.

If your child attends Nursery in the mornings, you can collect a bag at the end of the morning session and afternoon children can collect their bag at the start of the session at 12.15. We hope that lots of families will take the opportunity again this term to have fun with learning at home by borrowing these bags and we thank Eileen for organising it for us.

Den Building

Problem solving and teamwork are a big part of many aspects of outdoor play and den building and the imaginative play that often happens in dens very much exemplifies this. Outdoor play is always popular, regardless of weather, and we thought we would share these photos we found from earlier in the year showing some of the children busy at work den building.