Our Book of the Month for October is Room on the Broom by Julia Donaldson.  Fiona and Kate – our nursery’s literacy champions – will be exploring the story throughout the month with the help of books, puppets and animation.  We also be listening to the wonderful musical score for the stage show of Room on the Broom, by René Aubry.

We will be looking at the characters in the book, their emotions throughout the story, the plot of the book and the amazing pictures and enjoying the rhyming words which make the story so special.  Room on the Broom is a great story for exploring good and evil and provides the opportunity for us to talk about how we should treat other people.

We even have a Scots version of Room on the Broom so we will be learning the names for all the different animals in the “Guid Scots Tongue” too.

Our Word Aware Word of the Week is displayed in the hall.  Throughout October the words will come from Room on the Broom.  This week’s word is “Search”.  We will be talking about things that we search for and going on number and character searches in the garden to explore what it really means to search.

Our Makaton sign of the month is Good Morning- we have been trying it out before we sing our Days of the Week signing song at group time.