Morning boys and girls,

We hope you are all still keeping well and enjoying the sunshine with your families. We are still missing you all lots. We hope things will start to ease off for you all over the summer holidays and you will be able to play with your friends again soon. Mrs Eccleston and I have been busy again with our families over the past week.

We have been going lots of family cycles again and found places in Kilmarnock we didn’t know existed! Beth has been practicing her trumpet lots (our ears are sore in this house!) We have enjoyed playing family games and have started playing dominoes and Uno lots. These are games we can all join in with. Zack has been learning to count in 5’s and we did a hunt around the garden where he found all the numbers and then had to order them. We had a family movie night and watched the new Trolls movie, if you haven’t seen it I think you would all love it. It was a great movie. We have been playing Donkey lots with a ball in the garden and even took it out our nightly walk. We walked and play at the same time. That was fun! Sam had some forensic work to do for school, we all enjoyed making our own finger prints and dusting footprints with cocoa powder. Zack has been practicing his football skills lots recently. We have been learning the life cycle of a frog and made a frog life cycle wheel.

Mrs Eccleston has been really busy too:

This week we have been busy with lots of school work but we had a lovely opportunity to meet up with family in the garden at the weekend. Alistair, Isla and Ruby also had the chance to each meet up with one of their friends. It is so great to be able to see people again. Isla built a Den for part of her guide camp which she slept in and he made banana and chocolate chip muffins. We’ve been enjoying seeing all the flowers coming out in the garden which have been attracting the bees and we’ve been playing some garden games. There have been some beautiful sunsets when we have been going a walk with Rocky. We tried to dye Ruby’s hair pink at the end but it didn’t work very well. Hope you are all enjoying being outdoors in the sunshine.