Chinese New Year, Pancake and valentines day!

We have had such a busy week learning about different festivals and celebrations.

On Monday we learned about Chinese New Year.  We made some money wallets to take home a lucky penny.  We shined the pennies in vinegar before putting them in our red wallets which we had decorated with some Chinese writing.    We practiced some Chinese writing on our large easels.

We then tried some noodles for snack and even had a go at using chopsticks to eat them.  We loved this and asked if we could do it again sometime.

We made a Chinese Dragon then did some dancing to music and took a walk through the school to show all the other boys and girls. We announced on the school tannoy that there was a dragon on the loose!

This is the head of the dragon that we made.

 

On Tuesday it was Pancake day.  We all made our own pancakes for snack.

Then we cooked them.

 

Some of us even had a go at flipping them!

Take a look at our delicious pancakes:

 

 

We were playing 'screen games' this week where we worked in pairs, covered by a screen.  One of us had to give instructions for the other person to follow.  We really enjoyed this and asked to keep it out for the full session. 

 

We had rice in our sensory table this week.  We added in the magnet wands and metal balls and were learning a bit about forces as we explored them.

We made Valentines Day Hearts on Thursday to all our special people at home.  

We also made some strawberry jelly valentines playdough and were busy making heart shaped biscuits for each other.

 

 We also had a red valentines snack of tomatoes, peppers and red apples. 

We are looking forward to a quieter week next week!

Nursery and Preschool Registration Week

Monday 11th - Friday 15th February is the Nursery and Preschool enrolment week.

If you child was born between 1st March 2009 - 28th February 2010, they will now need to register for their full year of preschool.

If your child was born between 1st March 2010 - 28th February 2011, they will now need to register for their place in nursery. 

Preschool registration packs will be in the children's trays on Monday. 

Nursery registration packs for the Stromness Catchment area are now available from the school reception. 

All completed forms need to be returned to the school by Friday 1st March 2013.

January

We have had an extra busy month having moved into our new nursery.  Check out some of the activities that we have been doing:

We love our new outdoor space and have been outside playing nearly every single day since we moved schools.  We have been very imaginative in the way that we have played with the climbing logs, rolling logs, caterpillar, boardwalk and grassy mound.  

Even better....it snowed!  We discovered ice, snowballs, cold, melting, footprints, tracks and snow angels.

   Inside, we have been drawing and playing games on our new Interactive SMART board.  We have been learning new tricks every day and love using our photos on the board to sign ourselves in each day.  

We love our new purple sand and have been exploring pouring and filling, transferring, measuring  baking, sorting, hiding objects and many other games that we can play in it.  

Our big bricks our back and are more popular than ever now that we have a great big space for building it.  We have had a lot of 'fires' in the nursery this week requiring us to build fire engines to put them out!

We discovered that the new library is a lovely place to visit on very windy days when it is not safe to go outside.  The beanbags were nearly as big as us!  They were very comfy!

We celebrated Burns day with some pipe music, dancing, haggis and oatcakes.

We had a teeth-brushing session and were practicing our little gentle circles on the teddie's teeth.

We are participating in the Scottish Book Awards so have been reading the stories 

Jack and the Flumflum Tree

The Day Louis Got Eaten

Solomon Crocodile.

We have undertaken some activities relating to these stories to get to know them well.  We shall be voting on our favourite story next week for The Scottish Book Awards 2013.