Milngavie Early Years Centre

If you haven’t had a look at our Spring Wall, please come into the Creativity Zone and have a wee peek!  Maureen and Pam have been teaching lots of creative techniques to help the children show what spring means.  In our Home Base time we have been learning what baby animals are called and talking a bit about why lots of animal babies are born at this time of year.  Angela has been looking at the Hungry Caterpillar in the Writing Area and the children have been telling the story with their own beautiful illustrations.  Pam has been looking at Spring Weather with the children and has made a lovely wall of the children’s work – I particularly love Ailsa’s Pirate Ship Cloud!

Evening of the Friday 19th May!!!  Keep it free for the social event of the year!  Some lovely mums have booked the Fraser Centre for an evening of fun and jollity.  It’s a great opportunity for meeting up,without the children, and getting to know new mums.  More details will follow and tickets will be available after the Easter Holidays.  Its a bring your own bottle event and it is going to be fab!

The school has issued a letter about a particularly severe outbreak of headlice.  It is really important that we all keep a look out for them, and it has been suggested that we look every day, as, even though your child might not have them today – they might come home with some tomorrow.  They travel quickly between little heads!  Please check even if your child doesn’t look scratchy as sometimes you can have them and not be aware of them.

If you find either eggs, or head lice please speak to your pharmacist who can recommend an appropriate treatment.

If you don’t know what you are looking for there are videos on youtube- guaranteed to leave you feeling a bit scratchy!

Please keep a look out – it is only by getting rid of all the wee horrors that we can stop them coming back time after time.

We are back after a gorgeous weekend of weather with batteries recharged, all ready for the last week before the holidays.  Our lovely Annabel is into her last week as a spinster of the parish – she becomes Mrs Stewart on Friday, so she is spending Wednesday and Thursday getting ready for her big day.  Lucy will be in to cover for her and looking after the afternoon green group.

Monday is set to be an amazing day so we will be out in the garden enjoying the lovely spring weather.  This week we are going to watch a Tractor Ted DVD on Springtime kindly lent to us by Coen.

Tuesday is gym day for Red, Yellow and Green Groups. They will be trying out the lesson that Jason, the Going for Gold Gym Trainer did last week.

We’ve got frogspawn in our pond and are watching it carefully. Looking forward to another fun packed week!

We all wore red for Red Nose Day!

It was Red Nose Day on Friday and we wore something red for the occasion.  We had Red Nose Pizza for snack and as it was a lovely day, had lots of fun planting in the garden.  Some very crazy looking wee people turned up for nursery today – lots in red clothes, with mad red hair and even some with red deely boppers and red noses.

Angela has continued her work on science experiments this week with an amazing experiment involving Coca Cola and a packet of Minty Mentos.

This one was a physical reaction, Angela told us.  It happens when the bubbles of carbon dioxide gas are pushed out of the bottle by the sugar in the sweets.  She told us not to try it at home!!!!

This bottle had 4 mento sweets in! Quite impressive!

This bottle had 8 Mentos in – a real explosion! Bigger than the measuring stick!

We took this experiment out into the orchard to make sure that we could keep everyone far enough away to avoid a drenching!

“It’s just like the lava coming out a volcano!” said Euan!

This week we have been looking at the changes that happen in the world around us in Spring.

Maureen, who is in the Art Area just now, has been encouraging the children to paint and draw what they know, using a variety of different techniques.

Please come into the Creativity Zone and see what we have learned so far.

This morning was beautiful and Maureen and Julie thought it was perfect planting weather.  We are planting sunflower seeds to grow into wee plants which we can take home to grow in our own gardens over the summertime.  While we were planting we talked about what would grow first.  Maureen had dug up a daffodil bulb to show us the roots, and explained that roots were the part of the plant which sucked up the water and food from the soil to make the plant grow.  We are going to germinate the seeds inside and then harden them off in the garden before sending them home after the holidays.

Our afternoon pre-school children came along to watch

Primary 1 – all ready for their showcase on Fairyland.

Last week Primary 1 had a showcase of their learning on Fairyland for their mums and dads.  Our afternoon pre-schoolers were invited along to watch.  It was fabulous-! They told us all about the things they have been doing, and they had all learned their lines amazingly well.  We loved their song about Jack and the Beanstalk – Finlay was an incredibly grumpy giant and at the end, all the Primary 1’s cut down the beanstalk with very real looking axes!!  We were all well impressed!! Visits like this make going in to Primary 1 a happy prospect for our pre-school children – they see old friends and enjoy the idea that next year it will be their turn to wield the axes!! Staff love it too- it is so nice to see our past wee ones – they grow up so much in one year and learn so much!