Category: ELC

We are learning about shapes! The children connected lots of different magnet shapes together to create ‘Clothes’ for the people! They also enjoyed playing the shape game on our interactive board. In the afternoon we went on a shape hunt in the garden and found lots of 2D and 3D shapes.

We have been learning all things bee today for world bee day! This morning we were learning about the differences between honeybees and bumblebees, we learnt lots of interesting facts from Pamela yesterday as she keeps honey bees. Sometimes honey bees look like wasps, but wasps are much more yellow and aren’t as important as bees 🐝 This afternoon we created a beehive, we had to find flowers and grass for our bees and then we pretended to be the bees using pom-poms going around flowers, taking some of the chalk like bees so with pollen and taking it back to our hive.

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.

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 ❤️

ELCC enjoyed a break in the stormy weather to read their favourite stories outside!

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.

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!