Hello,

Just a quick reminder that if it is a sunny day could you please remember to apply sun cream and bring a bottle to reapply.

Hopefully the sun lasts and you get to enjoy it too.

Play Talk Read is the Scottish Governments commitment to positive parenting in early years. The Government is working in collaboration with parents and carers in order to give children the best start in life, however making it fun and exciting at the same time.

The initiative is for the whole family to get involved, parents, grandparents and carers are all encouraged to Play Talk and Read to their children every day in order for them to learn essential life skills and to make learning easier and fun.

Please visit Play Talk Read for more information and ideas (click on the link.)

http://playtalkread.scot/

The children have been learning about Dr Seuss and the books that he has written. (The Cat in the Hat, Green Eggs and Ham, The Lorax, There’s a Wocket in my Pocket, Horton Hears a Who, Fox in Socks and lots of others.) We have been incorporating Dr Seuss throughout the Nursery.
The children have been enjoying painting ‘Green Eggs and Ham’ and making Eco pictures of ‘Truffula Trees.’
The children have also drawn some lovely pictures of ‘The Lorax’ too.

The children have enjoyed a snack of purple carrots and radishes, with some lovely guacamole dip to go along with it. (From reading ‘Green Eggs and Ham’) The have also made some delicious ‘Cat in the Hat’ gingerbread biscuits.

Home: Why not try out some crazy snacks at home, that even The Cat in the Hat would like…

Our rhyme of the week is,

Hey Diddle, Diddle.

Hey diddle, diddle,
The cat and the fiddle,
The cow jumped over the moon.
The little dog laughed to see such fun,
And the dish ran away with the spoon.

The children have been learning about directions and have been using this new skill both indoors and outdoors. In the field the children have been using wood with arrows on them pointing in different directions, which the children have enjoyed.
Indoors, we have been using the Bee Bots on a special mat, the children have been directing their Bee Bot to various places such as flowers and their hive.
Home: Why not try giving directions to get to the children to get to their bedroom or kitchen (we have been using forward, backwards, left and right, e.g. 2 steps forward, steps left etc.)

Mrs Small has been making Hanen Home Bags and they will be given out to a few children on a Tuesday each week and to be returned on a Thursday.
One bag will be swapped around each group. The bags will contain a book, contents page, props to support the story and a sheet with the Hanen strategy e.g. SPARKLE WORDS, CSPAR, POP.
Hanen promotes responsive interaction strategies that are known to promote social, language and emergent literacy development.