Good morning! A wee bit of news from our nursery garden and orchard- Spring is coming!! The frogs eggs have changed a little- instead of little black dots on the middle, there are things that look like tiny black sausages.  I wonder what they’ll look like next week!!!

Our fruit trees in the orchard still look very much like wee sticks. I’m going to put a story on The Milngavie Early Learning Centre Facebook page, which  shows what might happen to our trees over the next few months!!
We have been putting some videos of staff singing, dancing and reading good stories on our Facebook page because our blog and Learning Journals don’t have the capacity for posting large files.  If there is anyone who has no access to Facebook and would like us to put links on the blog, we might be able to put these on YouTube and then supply the links. Please let us know if you would be happier with this! I know that Facebook is not for everyone!

We hope that everyone is keeping safe and healthy and is finding enough to fill their own and their children’s time.   At least the better weather has allowed people with gardens to get outside, and walks and bike rides are so much nicer when the sun shines!

At nursery, at this time of year, we always learn lots about the changing seasons and the coming of Spring. We learn about the life cycles of frogs and plants. Lisa has bought a butterfly farm for her daughters and they are watching their very hungry wee caterpillars development with great interest. She highly recommends this to other parents!  They are available from www.insectlore.co.uk.  When the butterflies hatch they can be released into your garden.  There is no better way to teach the lifecycle of a butterfly than actually seeing it happen.

Here are some of Lisa’s photos! Thanks so much Lisa! 

Here are the latest pictures of our frogspawn and the wee stick like trees in our orchard!