Energetic play has an important role to play in the children’s Health and Wellbeing development and most are more than happy to enjoy this, particularly outdoors. This little group of Rainbow Room children was learning about what happens to their bodies when they take exercise and they loved using technology to find out what was happening to their heart rate after spending time running as fast as they could.
Thanks to Miss Nixon, our children have been enjoying some cosy story times in Annan Academy library. We hope that in time all the children will have the opportunity to enjoy this wonderful experience and would like to thank Miss Nixon for her time and for making us feel so welcome.
‘Community’ is “Word of the Week” in the Raindrop Room while those in the Rainbow Room will focus on ‘time’.
As part of our World Book day discussions the children in the Rainbow Room talked about their favourite books and who reads to them.
Alex: the tractor book, my Mummy reads it.
Berrie: princess stories are the best.
Tom: I like “Tom the Tractor”, Daddy reads it to me.
Isaac M: “Bing the Bunny” book, my Mummy reads it at bedtime.
Sophie G.: we get books from the library.
Alfie H.: “Room on the Broom”.
Leigha: princess books.
Alfie J.: the monster book.
Danielle: “Peppa Pig”. I read it myself.
Zack: “Paw Patrol, my brother and Daddy read it.
Jessica: “Max and the Kitten”, my Nanny reads it.
Freddie: “Tom the Tractor”.
Poppy: “Peppa Pig”. Mummy and me read it.
Jackson: “Captain Underpants”. My brother reads me it.
It sounds like we have lots of lucky children listening to stories at home.
As a development from their focus on ‘history’ as “Word of the Week”, the Raindrop Room has been very busy discussing dinosaurs. This dig for bones in the sand was very popular and triggered some great comments about their finds and about the work of an archaeologist.
Isaac W.: we have to flick the sand carefully.
Barclay: I found one. The bones are from the legs.
Mason: this dinosaur eats meat and roots. They lived in the Jurassic world.
Ella: these two bones are the same.
Emily: they (archaeologists) dig for bones.
Noah: dinosaurs live in the forest.
Barclay: you slide the sand with the brush. They (archaeologists) hunt for treasure.
Kara: dinosaurs lived a long time ago.
Having shown great enthusiasm for their focus book “The Three Little Pigs” last week, this group in the Rainbow Room extended their learning to the outdoor area, enthusiastically retelling the tale and using it as part of their imaginative play. As you can see, they even turned into designers and builders when they created their own ‘house of sticks’ in the garden. Super team work!
After the ‘emotions’ self-portrait paintings by the Raindrop Room, we can share a different type of self-portrait as a result of the Rainbow Room’s ‘selfie booth’. The children developed their Technologies skills by using phones and the iPad to take photos of themselves. They loved experimenting with the technology to produce different types of photos and had great fun sharing the results with their friends. As you can see, this was certainly a very popular learning activity.
‘Community’ will be “Word of the Week” in the Rainbow Room while the Raindrop Room children will focus on ‘measure’ as their “Word of the Week”.
World Book Day is a great opportunity to celebrate our favourite books and to encourage the children to enjoy stories. This year, as part of a whole school celebration, the children were encouraged to to bring in their favourite books and some also decided to dress up which was lovely.
We were very lucky to have Primary 6 in Nursery as super visiting storytellers which produced a lovely reading afternoon for all. Thank you to all our families for participating in World Book Day. Staff and Primary 6 enjoyed sharing the stories from home.
Our children are becoming so skilled at baking that they are keen to try lots of new recipes on a regular basis. This session in the Rainbow Room involved learning to make rock buns which required different skills from using the food mixer but the children listened well to instructions and successfully produced a batch of tasty buns. I wonder if any of you have been trying out any baking or cooking at home?
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