Merry Christmas Everyone......

It's coming... Not long now!!

Christmas officially arrived in the nursery last week.

Here are some of us are trying on our Santa hats as we headed through to the hall to have a wee practice for the Christmas songs!

Don't we look fab!

The wrapping station was very popular too! 

We had lots of Santa's and Santa's little helpers busy wrapping lots of pressies!

We were loving to develop our cutting skills at we chopped wrapping paper and sellotape.

Great team work too as we worked together to hold the paper, while a friend stuck the sellotape down!

We now have lots of fully trained elves, ready to help you wrap at home too!

A huge Thank you to the Kitchen Staff who prepared a delicious Christmas Dinner on Friday.

Our Friday all day children had a great time!

We joined the rest of the school in the hall for our Christmas dinner and fun.

We also had a great time Outside, playing creatively and using our Imagination!

It is never too cold for an Outdoor Swimming Pool in the Stromness Nursery!

We were also busy reading and watching our final, Bookbug Picture Book Prize Book, Hare and the Tortoise.

We used this story as a stimulus for our hall time.

We set up obstacle courses and practiced moving both fast and slow, just like the Hare and the Tortoise.

On Friday, we all voted for our favourite story. Overall in the nursery most children voted for the Hare and the Tortoise story.

We also really enjoyed one of our small group activities this week.

We had a great time looking through our Learning files.

The children were excited to look at the pictures and drawings.

They had fantastic memories and communicate excellently about lots of the things they found in their folder.

This is an activity we plan to repeat on a more regular basis.

It's been a busy old week already in the nursery. Keep looking back for further updates before the holidays!