Category: Literacy and English

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Burns Day Celebration

Over the past few weeks we have been using the Scotland Talking and Thinking Tub at group times to learn about Scotland and Scottish poems and songs, in particular poems by Robert Burns  and James Annand.  We have also  listened and danced to a variety of Scottish music and been practicing Murder In The Chip Shop.  On  Monday  25th of January the boys and girls had a very busy day celebrating Robert Burns day.  Children were provided with different materials such as cars, rulers and string to create their own tartan paintings.  At the end of our sessions we enjoyed a special Burns Supper with haggis, neeps and tatties.

   HWB 0-35a       HWB 0-29a       LIT 0-07a/LIT 0-16a/ENG 0-17a EXA 0-02a  EXA 0-05a EXA 0-16a

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Outdoor Music Station

The boys and girls along with staff members worked together to plan how to develop our outdoor  music area.  We had  small planning meetings to discuss what objects we could find around nursery which could make the most noise/music – pots and pans were our favourite choice! We then used a pallet from St Mary’s Primary to fix our selected ‘instruments’ onto. Once we gathered all our noisy instruments we got wrapped and went into the garden to build our musical instrument station with Miss Kelly.  This was great fun.

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Try at home – feed the birds

Please collect a pack from the ‘Try at home’ table in the foyer. Did you know you can also make a simple bird feeder using Cheerios?  Thread the Cheerios onto wool or string or a pipe cleaner and then hang outside in your garden.

We would love to find out how you get on? Perhaps you could take photographs and bring them into nursery to share with you friends?

(Or alternatively email Miss Wilkinson:  eva.wilkinson@westlothian.org.uk)

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Continued community / home link learning

We were very excited to have a visit from a nurse (Lily’s mum) in the afternoon. We discovered that a nurse is someone who cares for us and looks after us if we are poorly.  We also found out about all the different jobs a nurse does in a busy hospital. We had lots of things to see and investigate including a stethoscope and a real cast. We had great fun trying this on and listening for each others heartbeat. Children shared their stories of when they have visited the doctors or spent some time in hospital. Lily’s mum kindly left us a few very interesting books to borrow which will help to further develop our learning and new vocabulary about our bodies and people who help us.

Thank you very much to Lily’s mum for this fun, educational, hands on experience!

If any parents/family members would to come in and chat with the children about your job/role in the community please speak to any of the nursery staff.  We would be delighted to learn from you!

HWB 0-15a   HWB 0-45a LIT 0-04a   LIT 0-010a   SOC 0-16a

 

On Tuesday morning the Wraparound children from Bathgate Early Years Centre put on their santa hats and walked to Acerdale House to sing Christmas songs to the ladies and gentlemen at the centre, on Mid Street.  This was a fantastic opportunity for the children to renew friendships with our senior residents of Bathgate and the enthusiasts singing was enjoyed by all!

Here they are pictured with Caitlin McKay, Work Experience student.

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Children In Need 2015

This year the children took charge of their own fundraising ideas for Children in Need and voted for a Pyjama day at nursery. We also made Pudsey bear eye masks, Pudsey cookies and sold Pudsey wrist bands. We raised a total of £149.75 for the charity. Thank you to all our children and families for supporting Children in Need.

HWB 0-12a    LIT 0-14a     SOC 0-01a

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Harvest art work inspired by orchard produce.

We have been very busy using the produce from our orchard to create seasonal artwork this week. On Monday we  explored the different colours and textures of the plants and fruit and vegetables in our garden to decide what we could use for art and craft materials.  We liked the feel of the sticks and the bright colours and smell of the petals.   When we were digging up the potatoes to be used for potato wedges at snack and harvesting the apples to bake in pies and crumbles, we decided bring some of fruit and veg to our art areas to try printing with them, painting with them and using them as colage materials..   Please have a look at our finished pieces of work at the front entrance.

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Van Gogh Sunflowers.

The children were very interested in looking at the sunflowers that were growing in the garden and then on display in a vase in the nursery playroom recently.  We then moved the vase of sunflowers to the indoor and outdoor art areas where children chose to use them as a visual aid for painting and creating mixed media representations of sunflowers. Children also studied pictures of Van Gogh’ Sunflowers artwork  to learn more about the technique and the work of artists.

 

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