Comments on the Picture and Story Books by our very talented bunch of authors and illustrators.

We shared the bairns’ handmade books with the school bairns and they left lots of lovely and encouraging comments.

Helmets

The bairns made their own helmets using orange and black card.  They chose their own designs for band of the helmet and then drew around their hands and cut them out to represent feathers.  The designs were varied and included a cat, flowers, hearts and a sleeping Viking.

Nursery Up Helly Aa Procession

Thank you to everyone who could make it along for our nursery procession.  The bairns had voted for the galley name and the colours of their galley,  orange was a clear favourite! All the bairns decided on their role for the day, we had 3 Jarls, 4 Galley pullers and everyone else wanted to be a Viking. The galley ‘Fire Galley’ didn’t take long to burn but the bairns had time to throw their torches in. We were very lucky to have Trevor on his guitar and Mrs Garrick on her cornet to play the music for singing along to.

Messy Play allows the bairns to create, build, develop their imaginations, explore textures, use their senses and it’s great fun too!

Gelli baff fun –

“It is squidgin oot o my hand.”

“Listen to the noise it maks when it falls down.”

Getting Creative with Bubble wrap – The bairns all worked together to stick a large sheet of paper down to the floor using masking tape, trying really hard to keep it flat. From a donation of bubble wrap they wrapped their feet to make boots! Colour mixing using paint was the next part of their plan, squirting it in flat trays, experimenting with shades, adding more and mixing up. The bairns and their bubble wrap boots stepped into the trays of paint and onto the paper exploring texture, cause and effect, and motor skills while creating unique, textured patterns. This evolved into painting and printing using their hands too, adding more interest through sensory exploration, fine motor skills, and creative expression.

“This is so fun.”

“I can feel the bubbles popping.’

SMUHA

Everyone got dressed up with their helmets and shields to head through to the hall to welcome the SMUHA Jarl Squad. The bairns joined in with the Up Helly Aa song and listened to the Primary 1 bairns sing a song to the Jarl and his squad. Some of the squad came to visit in nursery and very kindly offered to let the bairns try on their helmets, hold shields and axes if they would like to. The bairns had thought up some questions to ask the squad members.

“How do you mak da shields n da axes?”

“Is the Shield heavy?”

“Whit is your skirt made out of?”

The squad members were so lovely with the bairns, taking time to answer their questions and giving time for them to ask more.

Play on Pedals

We had our last week of four sessions, Andrew had the bairns balancing bean bags on their heads while cycling, obstacle course with tight corners, braking and getting on and off bikes.

World Book Day Reading Breakfast (Friday)

We were delighted to welcome so many of our families to celebrate World Book Day.  While waiting on a space for lunch, the bairns listened to their friends’ favourite books.  We had a great selection with lots of different animal stories and more.  We gathered some quotes from the bairns about their WBD experiences – see if you can guess who said it!

“I readed a book wi Luissa.  It was Poppy and Sam.”

“I readed da bat one, it was like bats were sleepin – Mr Bain readed it.”

“I was reading my Beauty book n it had Beauty and the beast is in it.  I was like Beauty.  Mummy readed the owl book and he fell and hurted his leg.  He just needed to find his mummy to get him a plaster.”

“Me and my Mammy was reading da Highway Rat and we were going to read Snail and the Whale but I changed my mind and I went in the sandpit and my feet were freezing.”

“I read a book with Mummy.  We did The Hairy Toe.  My Mum think it was really funny.”

“My book I made, da lion dat eats a giraffe.”

“I am a gingerbread man.  He runs away and a fox eats him.  Dats my favourite book.”

“My Mam got me a ghost book.  It was next to da passage.  My Mam and Dad read my Ghost Hunt.”

“Dad read me a monster book.  Its eat a giant.”

“We read the book that I made – the Viking one.  They said it was great.”

“Dad read a book, had some coffee, den he goed.  Da tiger comed and he eats all da food.”

“So my Mam readed da We’re All Going on a Bear Hunt.  We used da persons and da bear for walking through da water.”

“My Mum read the pop-up sun book with me and Ava.  We saw the pop-up sun and the pop-up ice cream.”

Thank you to everyone who came along and made it such a successful morning.  Life is better with books!

Play and Learning (Monday-Thursday)

Here is a selection of our play and learning from the remainder of the week.  The bairns have been finding bugs and catching bubbles outside, engaging in imaginative play with the big hollow blocks, putting the Tesco delivery away, finding new places for their magnet play and creating masterpieces out of cardboard and on the smartboard.  We have also had a lot of superhero play following a donation of masks.  We had a visit from Bookbug this week and the story was about a pug called Pig who told the most terrible lies.