On Tuesday we asked the boys and girls ‘What would you like to learn about this term?’ We had some really interesting answers! During the week whilst playing outside one of our friends found a beetle! The boys and girls asked if they could use magnifying glasses and bug finders to search for more minibeasts! As everyone has become really interested in finding bugs in the garden we decided to visit the library to find some books with information on minibeasts, frogs, life cycles etc. Charlie told us all about the life cycle of a frog. Charlie enjoyed exploring the messy room this week which has been filled with minibeasts! We look forward to learning more throughout the term.
Our amazing adventure day in the woods 
Wow what a fantastic day we have had with our friends from Sgoil-Araich and Port Ellen Nursery. We made hammocks, dens, nature bracelets, fairy wands, we had our lovely lunches, hot chocolate made in our Kelly kettles, shared some stories, looked at the huge fallen tree and loved just being outside exploring the nature in the world around us
Reading Outdoors
ELCC enjoyed a break in the stormy weather to read their favourite stories outside!
Tartan Making for Burns Days in ELCC
Robert Burns style group time! Today we discussed tartan and looked at lots of different tartans on the computer. We spoke about families belonging to a clan and having their own individual tartan – colours and patters. This morning we designed our our group tartan.
Exploring Numbers to 10
ELCC have been exploring numbers to 10. They are learning to recognise the numbers, count the dots and put them in order.
We have been talking about bonfire night and Guy Fawkes. On bonfire night we remembered that you have fireworks
We made our own kind of fireworks! We filled balloons with paint and we all had a turn to pop one and SPLAT paint everywhere like a colourful firework
There was lots of hilarity and fun in the nursery this morning!
Water fun in our early years!
Our Early Years have a new water tray and they all love it.
Glen: “It is cool”,
Archie: “It’s big”.
Mason: ” I like it because it’s outside and it has a waterfall”.
We hope you have lots of fun with it and we can’t wait to see what you do with it !

Maths Home Bags
We launched our Maths Home Link bags during Maths Week Scotland to encourage and support learning maths through play at home. Our maths bags contain fun and engaging toys with a matching activity card which suggests a range of indoor and outdoor activities with a maths focus. Parents and children have had lots of fun exploring maths through play.
‘Mara and her little sister have both loved them! It’s been great for me because I don’t have a maths brain so wouldn’t come up with many ideas myself!’
‘They do help when it comes to maths through play ideas as I would not necessarily think to explore more than counting and basic shapes.’
‘They have definitely helped me to teach her maths in a fun and interesting way.’






