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Gruffalo

April 12, 2016 Miss Dunn

On Friday our nursery had a special visitor from RSPB Scotland. Our visitor had heard we have been exploring The Gruffalo in our establishment and helped us to further explore some of the animals featured in the book.

We learned all about how owls hunt, where mice live and even got to touch a fox’s tail.

We then moved outside to create our very own Gruffalo house.

We had lots of fun learning about the real lives of the animals in The Gruffalo. Our visitor was particularly impressed with our knowledge of animals from Forest School sessions, commenting that she had never been to a nursery where the children had so much experience in investigating nature.

Events

A Huge Big Thank You!

December 23, 2015 Miss Dunn

The staff at Calderwood Lodge Nursery Class would like to thank the children, parents and carers for their kind and generous gifts at the end of term. We are hoping our work clothes will still fit us after enjoying the delicious gifts that have been handed in!

We look forwards to welcoming you back into nursery on Wednesday 6th January 2016.

Warm wishes and have a restful break from the Nursery Team!

Celebrations, Events, Health and Wellbeing

Gingerbread Creations

December 23, 2015 Miss Dunn

The children in Calderwood Lodge Nursery class have noticed a lot of special food appearing in shops, houses and on TV at this time of year.

One of the most exciting items of food we have noticed and wanted to explore further was gingerbread.

Karen introduced us to the story The Gingerbread Man in the book corner and we used musical instruments to add sound effects to the story.

We looked at pictures of gingerbread houses online and the Blue group worked with Nicole to decorate a beautiful gingerbread house.

Miss Dunn also shared a gingerbread recipe and we all got our hands messy mixing the dough and rolling it before using fancy cutters to make our shape. We iced and decorated our gingerbread biscuits in nursery and took them home to eat. We bet the biscuits didn’t make it past the front door before there were only crumbs left to be seen!

Events, Sciences, Social Studies

Good Luck Major Tim

December 15, 2015 Miss Dunn

Lots of children came to nursery this morning very excited by the news of Tim Peake’s mission to the international space station. Many children had heard about the interesting event on the news with their parents and were eager to discuss this in nursery. What perfect timing for us as we are learning all about space in nursery this planning block.

Miss Dunn showed us news clips and footage of the launch on the interactive whiteboard with many of us counting down to lift off! The children asked for the small world rocket to come back out to explore life on a launch pad. Some children made space shuttles at the arts and craft table and others made rockets using the soft play material.

We wish Major Tim and his crew all the best on their mission to the space station. We are sure many of us will be waving up into the sky to say hello this evening!

-My Achievements, Celebrations, Events, Expressive Arts

The Sad Little Sevivon

December 15, 2015 Miss Dunn

The nursery class, primary one and primary two performed our fantastic Chanukah Show ‘The Sad Little Sevivon’. The nursery sang our favourite song Eight Little Candles and gave everyone a wave on their parade around the hall.

‘We were the candles, and we got on fire! But just pretend, that’s what you do in a show’ – Freddie

‘The singing was the most exciting part, lots of singing and the parents said well done’ – Becca

All the nursery staff were very proud of the excellent performances of all the children.

-My Achievements, Events, Expressive Arts

St Andrew’s Day

November 30, 2015 Miss Dunn

Oliver brought a very interesting piece of material into nursery on Monday. At welcome time his group discussed this piece of material and learned it was a strip of tartan. Oliver explained tartan is a traditional Scottish fabric and that Monday was a special Scottish day known as St Andrew’s Day.

Oliver shared this knowledge with the rest of the nursery and the boys and girls decided they would like to make their own tartan. Our Child Development Officer Nicole set up the arts and craft table with cars, paint and paper to make our own tartan prints.

Events, Uncategorized

Welly Waddle

October 20, 2015 Miss Dunn Leave a comment

On Thursday 8th October 2015, the nursery class participated in a sponsored Welly Waddle to raise funds for the Scottish Cot Death Trust. We all waddled our way around Newlands Park wearing a fantastic selection of wellington boots. Luckily the weather was on our side and we didn’t need the raincoats to match our wellies. The event finished with a lovely picnic in the park. Thank you to all the parents who turned out to cheer us on.

Keep checking the blog for the final total of sponsorship we achieved.

Celebrations, Events

Eid ul Adha

October 20, 2015 Miss Dunn Leave a comment

Many of our families celebrated Eid ul Adha in September. Children who were celebrating Eid ul Adha shared experiences of buying new clothes and visiting relatives for the celebration. Miss Rasul, who teaches in the school, also celebrates Eid ul Adha and popped into nursery to help explore henna patterns and Eid celebration cards.

We wish all our families celebrating Eid Mubarak!

Celebrations, Events, Expressive Arts

Calderwood Celebrates Rosh Hashanah

October 20, 2015 Miss Dunn Leave a comment

In early September many of our families were celebrating the Jewish festival of Rosh Hashanah, the celebration of New Year. Jewish families celebrate Rosh Hashanah with sweet foods, like apples dipped in honey and honey cake, as a wish for a sweet year. Some families also celebrate with symbolic foods like the head of a fish, pomegranates, and carrots.

In nursery we used our creative skills to make lots of craft apples and bumblebees. We got noisy learning songs about Rosh Hashanah and accompanying them with percussion instruments. Some of us even dressed up as bumblebees and buzzed around the playroom floor!

We wish all our Jewish families Shanah Tovah.