We read “The Little Red Hen” using a PDF on the kindle Fire and then used our “story box” to retell it with mini figures.
We then watched Pie Corbett perform the story on You Tube. He uses a unique “storytelling approach” for children to remember stories with and results with improved literacy. This method was then taken up by the National Strategies ‘Talk for writing’ programme
http://www.talk4writing.co.uk/
We dressed up as elves in the nursery and primary 1-5 perform “Baubles”.
We received a letter from Mr Polar bear looking for help as he an his family were trapped in the ice.
click here to open the letter from polar-bear in Word
The nursery hypothesised different ways to free the polar bears, suggesting banging with hammer and saws, smashing the ice with feet (like you can do with puddles) but that might hurt the bears they decided. they also though of using salt, and hot water to melt the ice.
We made these cool baubles using potato printing
We used potatoes we grew in our nursery Tattie rig.
We made Christmas tree Xmas card collages this year.
For children in need we wore Spots or pyjamas to nursery, Our school raised almost £300
A group of teachers from Nice in France have been at the school for the past two days. They were visiting a variety of schools in Shetland to find out more about our education system and how smaller communities work. During their visit they spent time with us in the nursery. We sang “bonjour Mes Amis” with them, they taught us to say some colours in French.
Our theme in PE currently is gymnastic based, we will be working on balances, special awareness and progressing to some basic rolls.
While making firework and Diwali pictures we used crayon shavings to make the patterns. We were encouraged to use pincer grip to pick up the shavings. Pincer grip is very important for fine motor development and handwriting. We then put the pictures into the oven so the crayons melted together and then added glitter for some sparkle.
If you are interested about the importance of pincer grip click on the link below.
We used our Autumn colours tray to work on sorting quantities and numbers
We then used paint to create Autumn pictures
