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This year, Rabbie Burns’ Day falls on Saturday the 25th of January, but because we don’t come to nursery on a Saturday… We decided to celebrate his day on Friday! Before trying traditional haggis, neeps and tatties, we discussed who Rabbie Burns was and why he was so important to the people of Scotland. We learned a few Scottish songs, too!

M: “I know Three Craws!”
C: “I know Ally Bally!”
E: “He was a farmer!”
O: “He wrote songs for girls.”

Well done, boys and girls! We also sang “You cannae shove yer granny aff a bus” and “I went to my Auntie Sarah’s.” We also found out that if Rabbie Burns was still alive, he would have been 261 years old on the 25th January 2020! WOW!

During the celebration we joined in some highland dancing and we even tossed our own caber! The boys and girls showed really strong muscles as well as great risk assessment when tossing the caber in a safe direction – well done!

Happy Rabbie Burns’ Night, everyone! We hope you enjoy your haggis, neeps and tatties!

The boys and girls have been extremely busy baking delicious food in our social zone. Some of the children suggested that we could bake bread and pizzas.. Well, of course we can!

We searched for recipes in our cooking book and together wrote a list of the ingredients:
– flour
– sugar
– salt
– oil
– yeast
– warm water

For our pizzas we decided to have these ingredients:
– ham
– sauce
– chicken
– cheese

P: “I like a lot of cheese on my pizza!”
C: “I have bread with my sandwiches!”
K: “I sometimes have a pizza for dinner. I like ham and cheese on it.”
B: “Sure you make toast with bread?”
E: “I like baking!”
P: “I help my mummy bake and cook at home!”

First, we mixed all of the ingredients together to make bread. When the dough was ready, we let it rest and prove – that way it grew in size! We used some of the dough for our pizzas, too before putting it into the oven to bake. The nursery smelled lovely!

The boys and girls have shown great skills by following the instructions in the recipe, measuring out the right amount of ingredients as well as working together and sharing materials. Well done, our bakers! Hmmm, maybe we should think about having our own version of the “Great British Bake Off”…?

 

We have been exploring the story of “Three little pigs” over past few days. It has sparked good conversations about houses, what they are built out of and what shapes they might be. We decided to make our own houses for the three pigs!

M: “It’s a square!”
K: “The house is square and the roof could be triangle.”
P: “I saw a circle room where my granny lives!”
E: “Three little pigs had three houses, sure they did?!”
L: “The first house was straw, we need straw!”

We decided to build a straw house! First, we put up a structure of a house – we decided that is should be a square house with a triangle roof. The boys and girls all worked super hard together to make sure the house is sturdy so the wolf can’t blow it down! We then made the walls using big massive pieces of paper and straw! Our story will continue over the next few weeks, so look out for more houses!

N: “I like the three pigs.”
H: “I’d like to live in a brick house cause it’s safe and strong.”
P: “We could make the wolf’s footprints with paint!”
A: “The straw isn’t very strong.”

 

 

We have had so much fun over past few days! We have been celebrating Christmas by having Christmas Family Fun Day, Christmas parties and lots and lots of exciting Christmas activities! From making Elf slime, Christmas baubles, mince pies to toasting marshmallows and having Christmas sing-alongs and dance offs! Ahh what a busy few days before we finally kick our shoes off and chill out over the festive period!

And of course… SANTA CAME TO SEE US! We were so excited to have a cuddle or a high-five with our special Visitor! We even got a wee present, what a great day!

E: “This is the best party ever!”
B: “Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer is my favourite song!”
J: “Where is Santa’s sleigh?!”
C: “I’m going to see Santa.”
E: “Do you know that I am on a good list this year? My Elfie told me!”

Thank you to all of the parents and families for visiting us during our Festive Family Fun Day – it was so lovely to see you all getting stuck into the activities with the boys and girls.

As we say goodbye to our Coco the Elf and all of the Christmas decorations for another year, we would like to  wish you all a very Merry Christmas and all the best in the New Year. Have a safe and fun holiday everyone and we will see you in 2020!

Dear all,

You are all invited to our Festive Family Fun Day on Wednesday the 18th of December! There are three time slots you are able to choose from:

9am – 10am
10.30am – 11.30am
12.30am – 1.30pm

We have got a lot of Christmas activities and Christmas stations planned for you all to join in, so prepare to be busy! We can’t wait to share the festivities with everybody! See you then!

 

On Thursday the 19th of December we are going to celebrate by having a Christmas party! Sessions are running as normal. 🙂 Party time for boys and girls, we can’t wait!

Friday the 21st is our last day before we stop for Christmas break. The school and Early Learning and Childcare Class will close at 2.30pm that day. The door will be open for pick-up at 2.15 that afternoon.

Thank you!

Well! Our Christmas preparations are fully underway! We decided to bring our Christmas tree and Christmas decorations down and get to work! The boys and girls chose the colours of baubles and tinsel for our tree this year. Everybody worked together showing fantastic sharing and turn taking – WOW, Santa will be super proud and happy!

P: “I want to put my Christmas tree up at my home but it’s too early.”
J: “I’ve got my tree up! It’s green with red decorations.”
C: “The gold baubles!”
A: “It’s Christmas time!”

We also have a very special Christmas visitor in our Early Learning and Childcare class…

The Elf came to stay with us until Christmas! On the first day of his stay he was a little bit cheeky and he coloured our milk! It was very funny drinking pink and green milk for snack!

After some discussion, we decided to have a vote for the Elf’s name. The options chosen by the boys and girls were:
– Chippy
– Spike
– Speedy
– Coco
– Elfie.

After some great voting and counting the ticks, the winning name was… COCO!

Welcome to our Early Learning and Childcare Class, Coco! We are so excited to have you here! We wonder where we will find you next…

 

As the children have all been very busy singing and preforming to music using our smart board we had an idea that it would be an amazing experience for the children to see and hear some live music.

Is there anybody in your family that plays an instrument? please let Nicola know if they would be interested in coming in to play for the children.

Also if there are any instruments at home that you would be happy to donate to us this would be fantastic. We are also looking for old microphones that are possibly not being used.  The children love to role play with these props.

Thank you

 

The boys and girls have shown a great interest in maps and countries around the World. We decided to have a closer look at a globe and different maps. We have learned that a lot of boys and girls in the nursery come from different countries or have visited different parts of the World on holiday.

O: “I’m from Albania and Greece.”
P: “I’ve been to Portugal before, I went there on an airplane.”
L: “Do you come from Poland?”
L: “My Nonna and Nonno are from Italy and I go there every year for summer.”
J: “My friend is from Bulgaria!”
A: “Did you know that the Seven Dwarfs are from Germany?!”

We decided to find all of those places on our big map! We talked about different ways of getting to those countries: buses, airplanes, boats.. We even decided that some places look so close on the map, that we could walk there! But after a closer investigation, we thought that although the distance between countries looks small, it really is huge! It would take us ageeeeees to walk there!

We kindly asked some of our friends and families from abroad if they could send us a letter or a postcard from where they are in the World – and some of them have already arrived! Together we marked our map to show where the postcards are from and our collection is growing! If you have any friends or family living or visiting other countries, we would really appreciate it if they could contribute to our postcard collection!

We were so excited to receive postcards from different places in the World that we decided to send one, too! We wrote a message, decorated the postcard and off we went to the Post Office to send it to… Poland! We’re going to count how many days it takes the letter to get there!

Our Early Learning and Childcare Class recently had an unannounced visit from the Care Inspectorate. The inspector focused their observations on Care and Support and on Staffing. We are very happy and proud to announce that we scored ‘5 – Very Good’ for both.

A copy is on display within the ELCC for reference. Additional copies are available in the entrance porch for parents/carers to uplift.