Hello everyone,
We hope you have all been keeping well and enjoying some new experiences. If you have started to go out for a Daily Walk in the good weather, perhaps you might like a few new mini-challenges to take on your way. Or you could take part in a Design challenge with your family… Here are a few ideas:
Hello everyone,
Hope you are finding lots of ways to have fun at home and in this lovely sunshine! Mrs Reynolds has shared some photos of great ideas she has been using with Erin at home:
TRANSIENT ART
An old cutlery tray filled with interesting objects like stones and cones and an old picture frame can be used outside to create many different patterns and pictures.
Below are some examples of outdoor Transient Art by the British environmental artist Andy Goldworthy. You might get some ideas from him…
DIFFERENT WAYS WITH A PADDLING POOL
1) Use it as a Wee Den to draw and read in
2) Erin’s Daddy’s birthday balloons were collected to make a place for dolls and teddies to have a party
3) RHYME FISHING:
Another idea is Rhyme Fishing in a paddling pool, an old baby bath or a washing up bowl. Fill it with water and throw in some rhyming objects (e.g. cork -fork; key-pea; petal-metal), then challenge your child to fish out the objects that rhyme using a ladle or other utensil. For an extra challenge you could work on a way to make your own fishing net…
Hello to all the children from Busby Nursery! We hope you have been having fun playing, learning, creating and exploring at home.
Have you seen any signs of Spring through your window?
Any birds building nests or looking for food?
Any leaves starting to grow on bare trees?
Any new Spring Flowers?
The famous artist David Hockney, who is 83, was busy drawing some beautiful daffodils on his iPad last week. Here is his picture:
Here is another huge painting he once did of trees in the Spring. It is the size of a whole room. Do you like the colours?
Why not try looking for some signs of Spring through your window or on your daily walk. You could keep a notebook of them.
Lots of children have been drawing and painting beautiful rainbows and putting them in their windows. Perhaps you could also try painting some Spring flowers or trees to celebrate Spring. You could try using an iPad like Hockney if your family has one, or you could do it with pens, pencils, coloured paper or anything else you can think of. Let’s make a Spring Gallery. You can share your pictures on Busby Primary and ELCC Twitter.
The children have been busy investigating and discovering through lots of exciting Science Experiments during STEM fortnight. They have been testing, describing, asking questions and observing results.
“I’m wondering what would happen if…”
Adding the vinegar…
….and bicarbonate of soda to make a gas to blow up the balloon.
Magnet experiments: “You can make it move from under the table!”
Our new BUG HOTEL. Who will visit….?
Making Bird Food with raisins, maize, mealworms and lard.
Studying the different bird species.
Adding the thread for hanging the feeders.
The children loved watching Professor Eco
Wandering Water and Colour Mixing Experiments
“I am wondering what would happen if we mix blue and red…” “It makes purple.” “We need the paper to test it.”
“What happens if we do it like this?”
Using droppers to create patterns with the colours we mixed.
As part of STEM fortnight, the children have been reading Greta and the Giants (the story of Greta Thunberg). In the Story Box they explored which animals are endangered through habitat destruction and made their own signs to say “Stop”, “Help” and “Save Our Planet.”
The children created a frieze from the story – making a forest, drawing the giants, people and houses, and writing signs.
Exploring the Story Box
String printing to make the jungle grasses
“I want to make a Stop sign.” EH
“We’ve drawn the giants.” EP
“This is all the houses.” FD
“That says Help.” SF
The giants “smashed the trees… I drew all the people – the big people and the little people.” LM
“Litter” (is dangerous for sea turtles) MF
“Did you know that in China they are chopping down the bamboo that pandas need to eat?” IMM
“Orangutan! That’s King Louis. What do they do in the trees?” EH
The children have been very busy and active in gym, working their hearts, muscles and imaginations in Creative Movement. They have been moving it to Jazz music, Swing, Salsa and Techno!
Make your move and copy your friends
Fly like a superhero
Chattanooga Choo Choo
They also like to move it outdoors and in the MUGA, where they have been developing their core strength, jumping, balancing and ball skills.
The children have been enjoying exploring rhyme through fabulous books like “Oi Frog” & “You Can’t Let an Elephant…”, alongside Rhyme bags, Story props and Rhyme Fishing in the Water Tray. They have taken great delight in generating their own rhymes, inspired by the books, and have come up with some great rhyming lines!
“Miss MacFarlane sits on a darling.”(EK)
“A rocket sits on a docket”(EH) “A giraffe sits on a path.” (NN) “Never let a bee come to tea.” (IMM) “Don’t give a scare to a bear!”(EP)
“Don’t give a coat to a goat.” (MN) “Don’t let a bear sit on your chair… or your hair”(FD) “Don’t let a bunny eat your money.” (EC) “That’s not a song because it’s just words. A poem is a thing that rhymes.” (HN)
“Honey… and money.”
“Pig rhymes with wig!”
“The wig is too… BIG!”
“Goat goes in a….boat.”
Fishing for Rhyming Objects in the Water Tray. “Egg rhymes with peg!”
“Tree rhymes with me.”
“What rhymes with petal? That is made of metal!” “And it rhymes with Gretel… and kettle!”
The children have been learning all about how things grow, as we look forward to Spring and also our Spring Event next Thursday morning, March 5th.
The children used cupcake cases, paper quilling, chalk, pen, scissors, crayon and glue to create their individual daffodil designs: “I know a different way to do it.” “All I did was fold it in and cut it like this.”
“The trumpet part is orange.” “I’m going to twist it round by myself.” (quilling)
Planting Iris Bulbs: we have planted indoors and outdoors, and are comparing how quickly bulbs grow in the different environments.
“Put a seed in, water it and wait till the sun comes.”
“One of my iris bulbs turned into a white flower.
The other one was yellow.”
“The bulb is round.”
“It has roots.”
“Mine has grown big.”
Singing “Ten Little Daffodils” and imitating how they grow.
Our master bakers have been busy mixing, kneading, rolling, cutting, scooping and squeezing to make their Heart Biscuits on Valentine’s Day.
“I’ve never used a spatula before!” “A heart means you love your family.”
“I’m going to make 3 love hearts from the one dough.”
“Its a bit runny.”
“Can you do pink around it? Its like painting.”
Squeezing Icing helps Early Writing!
“A heart means you love your family.”
ADVENTURES WITH HEARTS – sharing, comparing, naming the colours, counting, feeling, describing, what are they made of?
“I pick this one with the silver curls. I like the swirls and curls and lines and the dots.”“Who wants this one? Its beautiful.” “Feel this one. It feels like a teddy.”“This is number ten.”“I love all the colours – yellow, blue, red, pink, green and purple.”
“This one’s made out of paper and this one’s made out of wool.”
”These are the same kind. Is this pink glitter?” “I like this one. What is it made out of?… That’s wood, and that’s paper.” ”There’s a heart inside you – that’s the one you’re talking about…”
We have been celebrating and learning about Chinese New Year in lots of different ways:
Acting out the story of the Great Race;
Taking part in a Chinese Dragon Parade;
Tasting noodles, stir-fried vegetables & prawn crackers;
Making paper dragons, lanterns, dragon frieze and lucky red envelopes;
Hearing all about Chinese New Year from Ivy’s Mum
Gong Xi Fa Cai !
Colourful Rice: pouring, measuring, sensory & imaginary & playTeam effort: many hands worked hard on our Chinese dragon frieze – drawing, printing, cutting, sticking, colouring
Dragon Parade
A feast of Chinese foods
The Animal Swimming Race Story
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