Month: April 2020

Missing all our families! 💛

Over the next few weeks we will be celebrating and exploring People Who Help Us and the different jobs they do. If you have a family member that has one of the following jobs it would be lovely if they sent a photo and a brief description of their job to Mrs McConnalogue so that we can share it on our blog.

Medical Staff

Police Officer

Fire Fighter

Vet

Teacher

Dentist

If there is a job that is not on the list that you would like added just let us know. We look forward to hearing from you!

Just before the nursery closed, both morning and afternoon children participated in an experiment to find out what happens to bread when touched by hands.

We had 6 different bags:

1- touched by hands wearing gloves
2- touched by dirty hands
3- touched by hands washed in soap and hot water
4- touched by hands cleaned with hand sanitiser
5- wiped on used iPad
6- touched by hands washed in soap and cold water

The bread was put straight into bags and left for 3 weeks. The results showed that the only one with no mould was the bread handled by hands washed with soap and hot water.

Throughout the experiment, children discussed what they thought might happen.

Did you predict the outcomes correctly? What do the results tell us?

This weekend many people will be celebrating Easter. We would like to thank the Maxwell Mearns Castle Parish Church chaplaincy team who have shared the following activities, linked to Easter, that you may like to explore.

Activities

Learn about the Easter story.

(click on the link)

Decorate a hard boiled egg and roll it down a hill on Easter Sunday.

Make palm leaves out of paper and weave them.

Challenge!

 

Cillian is missing nursery so much he has decided to decorate his own ‘little nursery’.

Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star

Twinkle, twinkle, little star,
How I wonder what you are!
Up above the world so high,
Like a diamond in the sky.
Twinkle, twinkle, little star,
How I wonder what you are!

Activities

Today our activities are all going to be linked to Science!

When it starts to get dark go out and see how many stars you can count.

Explore  the phases of the moon and make them out of paper/playdough (or biscuits).

Use junk to build your own space rocket.

Explore how the earth orbits the sun by placing playdough in the middle of a round tin and moving a marble around it.

Use playdough and a pebble to explore how craters are made.

Challenge

Learn the names of the planets of the solar system and find out some facts about them.