Book Week Scotland – Day 3

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Children returned to nursery today keen to bring their literacy skills to life once again, through explorations of the local community.  We had return visits to the nature park and library, as well as taking our enthusiasm to our local care home where the children were taking turns to both talk and listen to the residents, sharing stories.

Tomorrow is our last day of Book Week Scotland and we are planning to welcome pupils from Caldrerhead High School, including Oscar, Alan, Graeme and Gemma, into the playroom to share their literacy skills through story-telling.  We are also excited to have Natalie joining us in the afternoon to bring stories to life through Gymnastics, so please ensure your children are wearing comfortable clothing.

Scottish Book Week – Day 2

The enthusiasm for Book Week Scotland continued today as the children excitedly made their choices of where they were going to take their learning today.

Along with some brave parent helpers some groups of children got wrapped up warm to go on their Gruffalo trail, by looking out for, reading and solving the clues, both morning and afternoon children successfully located the Gruffalo.  I wonder if we will have the same success tomorrow!

Meanwhile in the playroom, we were learning through books in all areas, whether making cakes after listening to the story ‘Katie’s Pairty’ or creating our own stories from our imagination.  We also welcomed a keen parent helper from the local community into the story corner to share her valuable expertise in story telling and rhyme.

Due to popular demand we revisited both the library and Story Yoga and massage from yesterday and it looks like this pattern will continue all week.

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Tinkering Table

“Tinkering fuels a child’s natural curiosity about life.  It develops fine motor and manipulative skills, promotes the language of skill, higher order thinking, problem solving and conceptual understandings the children discover as they tinker.

Tinkering provides opportunities to pull apart, to investigate, to plan, to rebuild, redesign and to construct”

The children are looking for donations of old clocks, radios, small electrical appliances for them to tinker with at the newly installed area in the nursery

Purves Puppets

The coach will leave at 9 am prompt and return at approx 1.30pm on both Tuesday 29th and Wednesday 30th of November. 

Please bring a small drink and snack for you and your child to have during the interval.

The performance will commence at 10.30 am. There is no food nor drink allowed in the theatre.

Please note that there will be no normal session available on both of these dates as this is a whole early level playroom family event.

We hope that you will have a fabulous day out at the theatre.

Our Book Week Celebrations Have Begun

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Book Week Scotland has got off to a flying start in the nursery!  The children responded very well to the staff and pupils of Dykehead Primary School, quickly forming relationships and listening attentively to the stories they had brought with them.

Whilst others participated in Story Yoga, learning new movements to go alongside the story of ‘The Very Hungry Caterpillar’ before finishing off with a massage to the rhyme ‘Twinkle Twinkle Little Star’.

Thanks to some of our parents we were able to have an outing to the local library where a group of children got to borrow a book of their choice, please speak to your child’s key worker if you would also like to join us in our celebrations!

The shelves in our Book Swap Shop are filling up, so if any of your family have any old books they would like to trade in please bring them along and you can exchange them for  a new exciting read.

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Week 8 of our collaboration with CCI & Calderhead High School

The children have been  very busy this week with Shirls collecting lots of foliage for the large Guardian of the Forest. They were introduced to a special cutting tool called loppers which we safely used to cut some of the larger pieces. Shirls encouraged the children to use their creativity skills to decide which pieces they would use for the eyebrows, beard and hair. At the end of the session,  Susan built a small fire to keep the children warm up then they used it to brown their bread to make toast.

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What’s on week beginning 21st November 2016

Monday 21st November 2016

Nursery closed for In service

Tuesday 22nd November 2016

Scottish Book Week celebrations begin today

Pupils from Dykehead Primary will be joining the children in some shared reading

Siobhan will be supporting the Bumblebee group this morning

Library visits with Nicola, Amanda and parent volunteers

The Very Hungry Caterpillar to yoga with Christine

Wednesday 23rd November 2016

11.10 am Bookbug Rhyme Time family session with Amanda and Emma

Library visits with Nicola, Gail and parent volunteers

Gemma speech and language therapist will be in the nursery today

Gruffalo Trail in Nature Park with Susan, Elaine and parent volunteers

2.30pm – 4.30pm Christine attending Infant Massage event

Thursday 24th November 2016

1 pm – 3.45 pm Forest School session with Christine and Susan.

2.00 pm Visit to Rosehall Care Home with Amanda and Siobhan

Friday 25th November 2016

Siobhan is on annual leave today

9.30am We’re Going on a Bear Hunt to gymnastics with Natalie Waddle and Susan

10 am  Calderhead High School pupils visiting today to carry out storytelling sessions

Nevine educational psychologist will be in the nursery today

Remember Book Week Book Swap will be on each day.  This will be a fabulous opportunity to choose some new reading material for both you and your child.  Volunteers to help with swap are still required in the morning session.

 

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