problem solving | Cunningsburgh Early Years 2023-24 Term 3

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Music with Mrs Garrick on Monday the bairns joined in with lots of music, singing and movement activities including the Goldilocks song, bananas in Pyjamas and we brushed up on the Up Helly Aa song before our trip to Lerwick on Tuesday. At the end of the session Mrs Garrick took out her sound bowl to promote a bit of relaxation before heading back to the nursery.

We made our way up to Lerwick on Tuesday for Up Helly Aa and managed to catch the Vikings just in time as they marched along Commercial Street. The bairns were excited to see what colour the galley was painted and a few had guessed right. We walked down to the Esplanade and caught a closer look at the galley. The bairns spoke to some of the Jarl squad and inspected their suits, commenting on their axes and shields. We walked through town and up to the Fort for a run around on the big rocks. We noticed the length of our shadows in the winter sun. After lunch there was time for some imaginative Viking play out in the garden.

We spent some time down at the school playground and the bairns explored the equipment, made up games, sang the Up Helly Aa song and splashed in the puddles. The bairns were also engaged in plenty of muddy fun in the garden this week.

Here is a selection of photos to show more learning from this week.

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It was great to have the bairns back in the setting following the snow week and to hear all about the fun they had been having building snowmen, igloos and sledging. We watched a slide show of all the photos you sent in so they could recall their experiences and share them with us.

We were very excited to receive a parcel in the post of some magnetic tiles and the bairns have used their creativity to make some fantastic things. We have seen rockets, houses, cages, jails, patterns, towers and many castles and palaces. There has been discussion about shapes and a very exciting discovery that two triangles can make a square and two rectangles can make a square!

At our music session with Mrs Garrick we learned about rhythm and used different parts of our body to tap or clap out the beats. The Up Helly Aa song was a great hit and we had a march around the hall while remembering the words.

We chose some lovely fact and fiction books from the library van.

The nursery bairns and some of the lower primary classes had an assembly in the hall with Mr Clark, we listened to the story Giraffes’ can’t Dance. We chatted about how it was good to be different, persistence and being kind to others.