To celebrate Burns Day on Wednesday the 25th January the children participated in a variety of activities including: tasting vegetable haggis, neeps and tatties, creating tartan pictures and some Scottish dancing.

During their outdoor day the pink group discovered the variety of things you could do with ice…

You can write with it.

You can make ice soup.

You can see what shapes you can find.

This week the orange, pink and red group got the chance to attend a BookBug session. They read the story of “The Gingerbread Man” and enjoyed some nursery rhymes and songs in particular “Old McDonald had a Farm” and “Little Green Frog”.

Here are the words of “Little Green Frog” for you to try at home:

Mm mm went the little green frog one day
Mm mm went the little green frog
Mm mm went the little green frog one day
Mm mm went the little green frog!

But we know frogs go traa laa laa laa laa
traa laa laa laa laa, traa laa laa laa laa
But we know frogs go traa laa laa laa laa,
They don’t go mm mm mm!

Next week the purple and yellow group will enjoy a BookBug session.

It is believed loose parts in our environment empower our creativity and this week the children have become very creative with some wood, nuts and bolts (loose parts are materials that can be moved, carried, combined, redesigned, lined up, and taken apart and put back together in multiple ways) .

Below are just some of the pictures of the children busy being creative. Some are working together to create a helicopter, others are working independently to make a windmill.

This week the blue, white and green group all took part in a Bookbug session. At the session the children read the story “The Rainbow Fish” they sang songs and nursery rhymes including “1,2,3,4,5 Once I Caught a Fish Alive”, “Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes”, “Row, Row, Row Your Boat” and “Twinkle, Twinkle”. The children thoroughly enjoyed the sessions and the red, pink and orange groups are looking forward to their sessions next week.

On the last day of term the children wore their Christmas jumpers to nursery and were encouraged to bring a donation for the local food bank. We were able to fill the back of a very large car with all the donations. Thank you to everyone who donated!

On Monday 19th December the children had their Christmas Party. They enjoyed party food, a little dance, party games and we even had a special visitor.

The children enjoying their party food.

Pass the Parcel

Our special visitor.

Musical Statues. 

On Wednesday the 23rd December the nursery children were invited to the school to hear stories that the Primary 1 children had written. The children had great fun sharing the stories. Thank you Primary One!