This morning The Cool Kids and The Fantastics have been very busy getting organised for the book swap which the Reading Leadership Groups are holding this afternoon.

We have had lots of books to sort out so had to do a bit of problem solving. We remembered how the books were sorted when we went to Broxburn Library and to Waterstones. We decided to sort the books into fiction and non-fiction. Then we thought a good idea would be books for big children and little children. We thought a good idea would be for the smaller tables to have the books for the little children so that they could reach !

Everyone worked really hard and had good ideas. Well done to Mikey who chose a book to look for boost words !

Here we are being busy and enjoying some new books.

Today P2 used our listening skills in the playground to collect all the sounds we could hear. We then turned these into our own verses of the poem The Sound Collector.

We have had a ‘magic’ day in nursery today. Magic Mac came to visit us with his box of magic tricks. He was very entertaining and even Mrs Nicholls and Mrs Jennings were the magician’s assistants, helping him with his tricks. The children showed good listening skills and confidence dealing with new situations.

There was also a preschool visit to Five Sisters Zoo today as part of our transition events. We enjoyed seeing all the different animals and were amazed at how loud the gibbons’ singing was! We had the opportunity to get up close to some of the smaller animals in a handling session and some children even held a snake! The children used their listening skills very well to learn about different animals. There was also time for some energetic play in the park area. It was great to see growing friendships as the children move towards Primary 1.

The morning children also had the opportunity to visit the local park to play on the different apparatus developing their gross motor skills.