Nursery children have enjoyed teaming up with Primary 1 to create their own butterfly. They worked cooperatively to design and plan their beautiful butterflies. Thank you to Primary 1 staff and pupils for making us feel so welcome. 
Category Archives: Expressive Arts
Health and Well Being in the nursery
The children are enjoying planning the snack menu on a weekly basis. This week it was the yellow group’s turn to choose. As it has been glorious sunshine this week the children have been busy creating their own shaded areas. 
Experimenting with sounds
We have been experimenting with sounds. Through discovery and natural curiosity, we can make quiet sounds and loud sounds using recycled materials. We have made a drum from an orange carrier bag, a painttub and some string. We habe made a guitar from a cereal box and elastic bands and a rain stick using a cardboard tube with cut up pieces of straw inside. Our sound tubes makes a whizzing sound when we rotate it. We have enjoyed experimenting with sounds.
Caterpillars
The children are amazed at how quickly our caterpillars are growing.
We are making our own caterpillars at art and craft. We are using mathematical language when we are measuring them.
3..2..1.. Mission 4 accomplished!
We are learning to research and report on scientific news items
A successful report will include:
- Mission name
- Date it happened
- Information about the significant event
- Country responsible
- Duration- 1 minute
This week, Primary 5 received Mission 4 as part of their IDL context, Project Planetarium. We were challenged to work in our home teams to research two significant space missions from throughout history. We then worked as a class to put together a timeline of space exploration in our very own documentary, A History of Space Travel.
To prepare, each home team had to select an envelope containing two space missions they were to research, along with some QR codes which linked to useful websites they could use. We also had a set of useful links posted on our Yammer page and could use our own or the schools devices to access these.
Most teams decided to share the work between them, researching a different mission each and then sharing their findings with each other. Next, we began to rehearse our news reports, utilising the skills we have been developing in drama, and, finally, we filmed them. So fasten your seat belts and prepare for lift off as we blast you into the past on a journey through space travel…
A New Family in the Nursery
The children have been very excited to meet The Grass Head Family. They conducted a science experiment to see if they could grow grass seeds using old tights, compost, grass seeds, cardboard eyes, yoghurt pots and string. MEET THE GRASS HEAD FAMILY.
We are measuring our plants on a daily basis. The children will enjoy cutting and styling the hair once it has grown enough.
Nursery to Primary 1 Transition
The afternoon preschool pupils enjoyed another session in the Primary 1 class. They have been listening to the story, Oliver’s vegetables and drawing a picture of themselves in a garden. They can discuss many plants and bugs found in our gardens.
Djembe Drumming
https://youtu.be/fHvFb_MgF0E
Using ICT to enhance learning
Hannah is reporting on Bernice completing her frog and lily pad. Bernice is able to tell Hannah all she knows about the life cycle of a frog and is displaying her work on our spring learning wall. Hannah is developing her ICT skills when using the mobile device.
Mid Calder School Choir
Have a listen to our amazing school choir singing ‘Glorious’.
A lot of hard work learning lyrics and even some harmonies. Well done guys!
