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Expressive Arts, Literacy and English, Social Studies

Happy St Andrew’s Day – 30th November 2016

November 30, 2016 Miss Dunn

Primary 1 have been investigating St Andrew’s day today through traditional Scots songs, language and stories.

We learned that Scots language is different from our language. Phoebe asked if it had different letters like Hebrew, Miss Dunn explained it was the same letters just in a different order to make different sounds.

We enjoyed hearing Whit the Clockleddy Heard and The Gruffalo’s Wean in Scots. Can you guess what familiar story we know them as?

We also learned some traditional Scottish children’s songs, such as Three Craws and Ally Bally. Our favourite song was Katie Bairdie.

Click on the link below for the song and lyrics to try at home:

http://www.scottishbooktrust.com/katie-bairdie

Other learning activities included collage thistles, Scottish culture Bingo and making a traditional Scottish dinner of Haggis , Neeps and Tatties in the home corner.

“St Andrew’s Day is when we celebrate Scotland” – Yisrael.

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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.

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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.

Expressive Arts, Social Studies, Technologies, Uncategorized

Remembrance Day

November 20, 2015 Miss Dunn

Lots of our boys and girls have been noticing the poppies people have been wearing on their jackets. We did a bit of research using the computers, newspapers and interviewing adults to find out why. We learned that people wear poppies to remember brave men and women who have died fighting in wars. Some of our boys and girls explored printing with junk material to create our own lovely poppy pictures.

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Crisp Autumnal Days

October 20, 2015 Miss Dunn Leave a comment

We have been making the most of the dry, crisp weather in our outdoor learning area. With the leaves changing colour and falling into our playground we found some creative ways to play and learn with them. Some of us decided to make pumpkin pies using leaves as our ingredients, some created magical autumn castles and some even used the bamboo tubes to pour water on top of the dry leaves to investigate the effect.

No matter what the aim of our exploration was, we all certainly had fun with this very seasonal resource!

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.