Thank you to our parents who joined us for our Picnic in the Park! It was a lovely day for it ☀️ and a special afternoon for a special lady who will be retiring at the end of term ❤️
An amazing day at Blair Drummond Safari Park! Lots of smiling happy faces 🦓 🐅 🐧 🦕 🍦 🛝
The children had such an amazing time visiting our local farm and getting the opportunity to feed baby lambs! This was a lovely experience for them all and they are still speaking about it within nursery. Thanks again to our lovely farmer for letting us come again this year 🐑
Thank you to all our families that joined us for our Easter Stay and Play and helped us to raise funds for the nursery. It was a lovely afternoon with lots of happy little faces 🐣 😊 we even had a special visit from the Easter bunny 🐰
Thank you to our families for joining us for Big Cook Little Cook! The children developed their fine motor, listening and social skills as they participated. Lots of lovely interactions. #peep #familyengagement
Thank you to our families who joined us for Family breakfast last week. It was a lovely relaxed start the the day and the children thoroughly enjoyed having something to eat with their families and friends 🥞 🍇 🍓
Thank you to our family members who came along to Bookbug. Lots of lovely singing. Our next Bookbug will be after the Easter Holidays as our Stay and Play is on Thursday. We hope you can all make it 🐣 🐰
We have been exploring our new felt story board and discussing the sequence of events for the story of ‘The Very Hungry Caterpillar’ 🐛 🦋
We have enjoyed the addition of new writing resources to the carpeted area. We have experimented with magic colour changing pens, making marks on sequin boards and using water pens on mats. We love watching the water dry in and our pictures disappear saying ‘it’s magic!’
Our story of the moment is Jack and the Beanstalk. We will be practicing our songs of the moment and would love if children could practice these at home too. 🎶Baa Baa Black Sheep 🎶 5 Speckled Frogs 🎶 Golden Daffodils 🎶 Little Peter Rabbit Our Signs of the Moment are Grow 🌱 and Happy 😃
As our story of the moment is jack and the beanstalk. We want to try and grow our own beanstalks. We discussed what they would need to grow and can’t wait to see how big they get! 🌱 ☀️ 💦
We continue to add to our Makaton signs each month. Our children enjoy learning new signs and I’m sure they would love to practice them at home too! Our Makaton signs of the moment are: Happy 😊
Join us tomorrow for Family Breakfast. Come and have a slow start to your day and enjoy something to eat with your child and stay for a little play too if you wish. Nadine will be waiting from 8.30-9.30, drop in anytime. A chance for you to have a chat with other parents and staff too😊 🍽️ #PEEP
Thank you to our families who joined us for Big Cook Little Cook! Lots of lovely interactions and skill development! #peep
Thank you to reverend Scott for joining us one morning to tell us about the story of Easter!
Thank you to all our families who joined us for a lovely Daffodil Tea on Friday! It was lovely to see you all and the children all had a lovely afternoon 🌼 🎂
Thank you to our families for joining us for family breakfast this morning 🥐 🫐 lots of lovely interactions #PEEP #parentalengagement
We voted for our new story of the moment ‘The Three Billy Goats’ We will be practicing our songs of the moment and would love if children could practice these at home too. If you would like a copy please speak to a member of staff 🎶Hickory Dickory Dock, 5 Currant Buns, Tommy Thumb, Chinese Dragon
We were excited to see Chinese New Year provocations and books in the playroom today. We discussed what happens during the celebrations and helped to make a dragon with Ann in the art area 🎨 🐉
Fun at Bookbug this afternoon. Thank you to our parents that joined us. Bookbug is on every Thursday at 2.15. If you have any questions please speak to Nadine or Angela 📚 🎶
Yesterday we celebrated pancake day 🥞 we helped to make the batter and learned how to be safe as Nadine cooked them. We said they were delicious and some of us even got to take them home to enjoy 🥞 😋
A gentle reminder for any parents who would like to come along this afternoon to a speech and language information session. A chance to have a chat in a relaxed environment. It is drop in so feel free to come along at any point between 1.30-3PM if you feel you could benefit from this support ❤️
We discussed our story of the moment. We wanted to create the three little pigs brick house because the wolf can’t blow that one down. We used salt dough to make lots of bricks and let them dry. We then positioned the bricks with glue to create houses using good problem solving and team work🏠
We have been interested in tracing pictures recently and were excited to see Nadine had brought in torches for us to explore shadows with items we found in nursery. We chose an item and were able to take our time to follow around the lines the shadow created on the paper 🔦 ❤️
Thank you to our lovely parents who joined us for Big Cook Little Cook. We made some yummy rock cakes and loved using our hands to combine the mixture. They all looked delicious, well done ❤️
Thank you to all of our families who joined us for our Burns Celebration this afternoon. Lots of lovely interactions as we danced and enjoyed a little taste of Scotland 🏴 special thank you to Ann and Jean for preparing our delicious Haggis, Neeps & Tatties 🏴 a lovely afternoon had by all 💙
We had fun today exploring colour mixing using syringes and pipettes. We dropped food colouring onto cotton pads to see how the colours changed. Lots of colour recognition, discussing changes that happened and developing our fine motor skills. Some of us noticed the numbers on the syringes too 🌈
