We had an amazing day last Thursday and thoroughly enjoyed World Book Day.  Many thanks to everyone who dressed up and helped make the day extra special.  We had lots of fabulous stories throughout the day and had Book Worms (cheese straws) and Goldilocks’ bears for snack.

This week in nursery we are learning about plants.  We have been planting sunflowers and we have lots of vegetable and wild flower seeds to sow this week.  Eric has very kindly fixed the broken fence in the garden and we can get back out there, so fingers crossed for some decent weather.  Our new outdoor Suit and Boot room is now fully operational and had its first proper trial on Friday.  It is excellent and frees up lots of indoor space – it also keeps most of the mud outside the nursery,  which is also great news.

We are also continuing with measure – now investigating this through the story of the 3 bears.  This gives an opportunity for revisiting the vocabulary of measure and do lots of activities involving porridge.  Out wee playhouse in the playground has become the 3 bears cottage, with lots of items of 3 different sizes to explore.

On Tuesday and Friday of this week we are taking a group of children to visit the residents of The Oakburn Gardens Care Home.  We visited last December to sing our Christmas songs and both the children, and the elderly residents loved it.  The ladies at the care home have invited us to come back and so we will be continuing to visit to sing songs and play games regularly, throughout the year.  It is really good for our children to get to know the community in which they live and help support our senior citizens.