Cunningsburgh Early Years 2024-25 Term 1 Week 9 | Cunningsburgh Early Years 2024-25 Term 1

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Shetland Youth Orchestra Concert (Monday)

We were very lucky to have a visit from the Shetland Youth Orchestra for a spooky-themed concert. “I see a fiddle.” “I hear a trumpet.” The musicians showed off their instrument groups – woodwind, string, percussion and brass, and the conductor spoke about individual instruments. The SYO played song from Harry Potter, Fantasia, Ghostbusters, March to the Scaffold and Scooby Doo. The bairns were asked if they could hear the story that was being told by the music.

Sea Creatures (Monday)

Following the bairns’ interest in fishing, we had a special delivery of living sea creatures. We looked at the squid in a blue crate and wondered what might happen when they went from the pink bucket to the grey tray. “Do they change colour?” The bairns found out about how lobsters move, sunfish’s eyes and mouths, crab’s pincers and how welks move. The discussed how the creatures felt, what they ate and the Shetland names for a sea urchin – “scaddy man’s head” or “scabby man’s head”.

Outdoor Play (Monday- Friday)

Mud, glorious mud! The bairns have created an obstacle course, used loose parts to make a farm and there was a fire in the ice cream shop.

Bookbug (Wednesday)

The bairns took part in nursery rhymes and listened to a story during this week’s Bookbug session.

Tesco Visit (Wednesday)

The bairns asked to go to the supermarket and we took a trip up this week to buy vegetables for the sheltered housing residents. We caught the service bus at the top of the road. On the way into Tesco we noticed a sign for the charity initiative. We picked up a handheld scanner and went to find the vegetables we needed for our gifts. The bairns found the barcode and pressed the button to scan the items. The bairns commented on the Halloween decorations in the roof. “Look, a spider!”. Once we had paid for our items, we headed back to the bus. On our way, a kind lady gave us her blue tokens for the charity box. Mrs Malcolmson explained that the Shetland Youth Orchestra was one of the options and it would be great if we could help them get some pennies by putting our tokens into their box. We went back on the bus to nursery and arrived just in time for fish and chips. During lunch one of the bairns explained to their friend that “It was good but exhausting.”!

Sheltered Housing End of Term Gift (Monday and Wednesday)

The bairns decorated paper bags with different kinds of harvest vegetables and made a small note to attach to the gift. They thought the residents might like to make soup and chose onions, tatties, carrots, brussel sprouts, tomatoes and neeps. Once the bags and vegetables were ready, the bairns filled up the bags and then we headed out to deliver the gifts. We also made a trip around the school to wish everyone a happy holiday.