Last week in Nursery we had a visitor.

Patsy from 'Book Bug' came to visit us. It was great fun!

 

We all enjoyed listening to the story called 'Shark in the Park'.

It was a super story and we had to look through our telescopes.

 

We had good fun with the Lycra, singing 'What shall we do with the bouncing Book Bug' and lots of other fun songs too.

 

Yesterday we had great fun with Dave and his puppets.

 

We all had a shot at playing with our own puppet.

 

Dave had lots to choose from and it was tricky to decide which one to pick!

 

 We gave our puppet a name, an age and even thought about their favourite food!

 We practised our silly voices too!

 

The morning boys and girls helped Dave to act out the story of the gingerbread man. While the boys and girls in the afternoon helped Dave to act out the story of the Billy Goats Gruff.

 

 

Dave showed us lots of his other puppets too.

Lots of us recognised his Sooty and Sweep puppets.

Many of us really liked his mermaid puppet too.

This week we have been continuing to follow our interest in Pirates!

We have been practising our balancing skills by Walking the Plank!

We had to be very careful as there were sharks in the water!

 

 We had great excitment when Captain Red Beard visited us again this week!

This week he had left us something very special.

 

He left us a note telling us to look for the 'x marks the spot'

We quickly found it outside. Under the X was his treasure chest!

Captain Red Beard has asked us to keep it safe for him.

 

 

We were all keen to draw our own 'Treasure Chests'

Lots of us drew coins and jewels. Some of us even drew a pirate beside the treasure chest.

 

 Last week we were keen to play on the Climbing Frame in the Nursery.

Quickly our climbing frame became a Pirate Ship!

We started becoming pirates and sailing the seven seas!

 We were really keen to find out more about Pirates!

Last week we had a special visitor who left us something in Nursery!

Outside, hidden in a bottle we found a special message from Captain Red Beard.

Lots of us were very excited!



 Later that week he came back again!

He left us another message and we found his missing eye patch too!

In the compost there was a big foot print too. It was much bigger than all of our footprints!

We started to wonder if it was Captain Red Beard's footprint!

 We started to draw our own pictures to show what we thought Captain Red Beard might look like.

Lots of us drew his eyepatch.

Lots of us drew his big, long red beard too.

 Some of us thought he might have a hook for a hand and other people thought he might have a special treasure map.

We used our Pirate masks to help us plan where we would like to play in the nursery last week too.

Some of the boys and girls were keen to visit the Fire Station so this week we all went on a little trip!

We visited the fire station!

 

We got to see where all of the Stromness Fire Fighters keep their clothes.

Some of us tried on the protective gloves.

They were huge on our little hands and made us giggle!

 

 Lots of us didn't know that Mr Cursiter is also a Fire Fighter!

We got to hold his fireman helmet, it was really heavy!

 Stromness Nursery Fire Fighters to the rescue!

We got to sit in the fire engine too!

 It was great fun.

 We tried on the fire fighter helmet.

When we took down the visor, we thought we sounded like spacemen!

 There was lots of fires in Kirkwall on Friday so our little Fire Fighters were kept very busy!

 We all got a shot of holding the hose.

Mr Cursiter showed us how it worked.

Luckily there wasn't any water in it or I think lots of us would have been very wet!

We really enjoyed our trip to the Fire Station.

Thank you Mr Cursiter!

Many of us are keen to have a visit from the Fire Engine in the playground next term!

This week in school, the Primary Seven's have been very busy raising money and organising events for Sport Relief.

 

The Primary Seven's visited the nursery on Wednesday for a very special event!

They helped organise a cycle of the school for Sport Relief. It was fantastic!

 

 Everyone in the nursery took part and we all had great fun!

Some of us were on trikes, bikes and scooters and we all zoomed around the school!

 A huge thank you to Primary Seven for helping us and for being so encouraging!

On your marks, get set, go! And they are off......

We all enjoyed our visit to the Pier Arts Centre last week.

We had great fun becoming 'real artisits!'

 

 We enjoyed looking at the work of an artist called 'Ben Nicholson' and created our own collages using different 2D shapes.

 We all concentrated really well and enjoyed sticking all the colourful shapes on to our collage.

 We all picked our favourite colour.

Then we started to make our super colour collages for the exhibition 'Inspired by' using a variety of different types of coloured paper and card.

 

Our collages are now on display in the Pier Arts Centre and they all look fab! If you haven't been yet, the exhibition showing work from the whole school is really worth a visit.