We have had many themes running this week: Road Safety, Book Week and outer-space.
Road Safety:
We have been continuing to discuss and identify a variety of road signs whilst out playing on the bikes in the garden or researching the internet and then making our own at the art area. Some small groups of children also participated in a traffic survey where we walked to the bus stop; discussing features of the road and how to be safe on the road as we went. We then all decided on the different types of vehicles that can be used and switched our looking eyes on to start the counting. This process helped the children learn about tally marks and through on-going discussions, we identified the most and least popular types of vehicle. The groups of children then returned to nursery to work out a way of displaying all of our information. A tally chart was made and further groups of children will add their results as more surveys are completed next week. This activity was optional to children. Also within the nursery our activity trays were set up by the children into a street scene where some pupils made their own vehicles out of junk.

Book week:
We were delighted to invite P5 down to the nursery on Wednesday. The pupils from P5 all chose their favourite books to read to the nursery children. The nursery children we paired up with a P5 pupil where they had a quiet space to read and then complete an activity that the P5 pupils made. Some completed dot-to-dot, spot the difference, colouring sheet, snap, matching pairs. This helped the nursery children develop their listening and discussion skills. We have also been listening to the stories from the nominated books for the Scottish Book Trust awards. We hear Mrs Hollands, Mr Taylor and Mrs McKenzie read different stories over the tannoy. We will then vote for our favourite book. We also had a visit of Miss Brown (p7) to read us all.
We continue to practise our songs and words for the nativity and will begin to use the stage next week. No costumes need to be supplied from home.
Next week we will be continuing to look at some aspects of road safety and beginning the preparation for Christmas.
House Keeping:
Please be vigilant to keeping the cloakroom as tidy as possible as some children are going home with incorrect shoes and clothing.
We are in urgent need of tissue donations
Reminder – the council has a 48hr policy for vomiting and diarrhoea. Please keep any child off until 48hrs after the last episode of sickness
Can all payments for term 2 snack, panto and the Christmas party please be paid ASAP