Milngavie Early Years Centre

Ian was finding his car just a little bit draughty today, as he drove around the playground.  He decided it could use a windscreen.  Isn’t this clever! 

Our resident domestic goddess, Eileen- sharing her super scone making secrets in a Milngavie Nursery Bake Off!        Amazing!

Spotted in a corner of the art area – two very laid back wee artists enjoying a bit of sociable creativity!

A new term and some lovely, new wee people joining our nursery!  A fabulous artist and a very chilled wee guy who likes hanging out with his big brother!

On the last day of term, the baby of our team married Callum and became Mrs Annabel Stewart.  She was a stunningly beautiful bride and I hope she will forgive me sneaking a couple of snaps in to show you!  She looked absolutely radiant and it was a real pleasure to join in the celebrations!  We all had a great night!  Congratulations again to Annabel and Callum!

I must admit that a really rainy day does not often fill my heart with joy – but the last day of term was an exception to the rule.  Our children love outdoor play in any weather and rain offers a highly sensory play experience.  There is huge fun to be had jumping into puddles, individually and en masse!  The pond is full of water and there are tadpoles and water beetles to watch and ripples on the surface where the rain drops fall.  The mud kitchen is SUPER MUDDY and all sorts of muddy delights can be created and shared with friends-dish of the day today?  Poo Stew!   Today the boys climbed into the mud pit and squelched about with great glee.   Children laugh a lot when it rains as splashing usually impacts on other people.  The trees are too slippy to climb today, but resourceful wee people find walls and railings to scale.  The rain changes the things we play, and gives us scope to try different experiences that don’t exist on a dry day.  The suits are on, but mud and water always find a way, and when we go in all of us are a bit soggy, but very happy.  I’m actually looking forward to our next really wet day!

It’s the start of an exciting new term and we are back with our batteries recharged after a lovely Easter break.  This week we are welcoming new children and their families to the Milngavie Nursery community and will be doing our very best to make sure they feel at home as quickly as possible.

This term is a really busy one – our pre-schoolers last term at nursery!  They will be busy with Primary 1, exploring our new orchard together on an active learning project.  Details to follow!  Our graduations are on Tuesday 20th June at 11am in the Infant Gym Hall.

Our Nursery trip is on Friday 2 June – letters about this will come home this week.

This term is always one where we do lots of outdoor learning- please could everyone make sure their wee darling is fully sunscreened up before coming to nursery on sunny days.  We are eternally optimistic that we might just have a summer and we really need to protect delicate wee skins!  While the risk of headlice is still with us, it would be good if your child could bring their own sunhat to Nursery.

Apologies for the lack of Easter pictures – I left the ipad in Nursery over the holidays – I promise to catch this up, and the Orchard Work Day photos too!

On Thursday afternoon and Friday morning we made lovely Easter Nest Cakes using chocolate and shredded wheat.  The wheat looked a bit like the twigs that birds use to make their nests.  The chocolate made the wheat stick together – some of the children said it looked a bit like poo!!!  We are sure that it will taste better than it looks!  We decorated them with chocolate eggs for a real Easter treat!!

The weather was grim – really wet!  We had already been out to play in the garden and all the outdoor suits were soaked!  The thought of climbing back into them was not terribly appealing so we had our easter egg hunt in Nursery instead.  The Easter bunny had been very cunning in the places he chose to hide them and it took us ages to find them all.  At last, though, we all ended up with an egg!!  Happy Easter when it comes, everyone!

This week has been a week of planting in Nursery.  We all planted a sunflower and Lynn has been planting beans in jars with tissue paper to show the children how the roots of the plant develop and then the shoot.  These have now been planted out into pots with soil,  so we can plant them out into the garden once they grow.  The school classes have all been over with our Eco Champion, Mrs McElney – each class has planted a different variety of spuds.  They are having a competition to see which variety grows best.  We planted ours too.  We aren’t part of the competition though we think we’d probably win because ours were planted with such love and care.