After watching the stick insect eggs for 2 weeks , we now have a baby stick insect from one of those eggs. The children were amazed how small it was and how thin the legs are. We will be monitoring and measuring the growth over the next while.
A big thank you to all the parents who came into nursery today to play with their child during our “Stay and Play” morning. We made swirly dragons as part of the weeks Chinese New Year celebrations and the children enjoyed having the parents join in at singing time.
Today was Chinese New Year and the children were learning about some of the customs and celebrations which happen on this special day.
They learned about how children receive lucky money in a little red pocket and made some of their own with chocolate coins.
We also tried to replicate a very long Chinese dragon and had great fun moving it around the nursery!
Today it was cold and it was frosty but it didn’t stop the nursery children and parents from braving the weather and setting off on our monthly cycle to a Pilrig Park. Well done all and hopefully everyone has thawed out by now!
The children were intrigued with these tube phones today. It was lovely to listen to the conversations they were having with one another and fun to watch them realise that they could hear each other without raising their voices!
The children were learning why 25th January is a special day in Scotland and enjoyed taking part in some Scottish activities. We tried some haggis neeps and tatties, learned to sing “head shoulders knees and toes” in Scots as “heid shouders knees and taes”, before listening to some Scottish ballads sung by one of our parents.
The children were very interested in these stick insect eggs today. They helped prepare the box and carefully placed the eggs inside before adding some leaves for them to eat once they hatch out.
Hopefully we will have some baby stick insects next week.
