We held two Bookbug Sessions on Monday and had positive feedback from the children and families who attended. The sessions are open to all children 0 to pre-school encouraging development of literacy skills in a fun way through stories, songs and rhymes.

Sessions this term

Monday 5th December

Monday 12th December

At the following times

9.15 a.m. til 9.45 a.m.

and

1.45 p.m. til 2.15 p.m.

The nursery children met with Victoria Leonard coordinator of the Toy Drive in North East Fife. The annual event collects donated gifts  and distributes them locally to Children and Families in need to ensure all children and young people receive a gift at Christmas. Santa face-timed the children to say thank you – very exciting! Victoria expressed her thanks to all the families who participated and was impressed with all our little helpers.

The children and families provided suggestions for fundraising towards our Clydebuilt Puppet event.

We raised £22.50 from our dressing up day. Thank you.

The children have been returning their Smartie Tubes containing pennies raised from helping out at home. The children have been very busy and proudly shared what they have been working at.

Ben helped.”On the farm, picking things up.”

Toby was busy. “I was washing up and washing the car. Daddy let me do power washes.”

Harry was busy. “Hoovering and dusting.” His favourite was hoovering!

Archie said. “Washed the car with mum. I tidied my toys.”

Max shared. “I made the tea…I made the fish.”

Brodie was busy. ” I was cleaning up and putting the washing powder in.”

Emily shared she helped. “Cooking with Mummy – sausages.”

Connor, Jaisleen and Lennon were very busy tidying bedrooms, washing and putting toys away.

The children were excited to harvest our crop of potatoes. They shared ideas about how we could use them.

“We could cook them and make potato soup. It’s yummy – I’ve had it before its delicious!!!” Said Harry.

Kyle wondered.” Do pink potatoes taste the same?”

The children made suggestions about what they would like to plant next -potatoes, carrots, lettuce. Saul suggested tomatoes and asked if we could buy a green house.

We were preparing snack using our own potato harvest and our Halloween pumpkin.  The children learned about hygiene, healthy eating, kitchen safety and developed their fine motor skills.

The nursery children visited the local shop, playgroup , surgery and the Burnside Hall delivering posters about the Coffee Morning and Afternoon on Tuesday 8th November. The boys were developing confidence as they engaged with people explaining we were raising money towards our puppet show.

The children were excited to find lots of different bugs when we moved a piece of wood. They used magnifiers to take a closer look and used an insect guide to see what they found.

Malcom brought in a shed skin from a tarantula to share with his nursery friends which sparked lots of learning about spiders.

Logan shared his knowledge. “Spiders live in webs and they are very sticky to catch a fly. They go round and round and round. “

May drew a picture for our learning book. “My spider has lots of legs!”

Everyday opportunities to develop our writing and numeracy skills.

STEAM in action as the children worked together to move the guttering, hose pipe and bottles to make water flow. Harry realised a funnel would help to put water into the hose. “This one is too big – I need a smaller one.” Said Harry as he tried different sizes.