Milngavie Early Years Centre

  Today Rowan brought a beautiful bird’s nest into Nursery.  Her neighbour had found it in their garden shed, and kindly given it to Rowan and her family.  We looked at how beautifully it was made.  It was light as a feather and it had leaves, twigs and moss woven into it.  There was even some animal hair in the wee bit where the eggs must have been laid.  We thought it must have been quite a little bird that made it.

Rowan decided that she wanted to put it out in the garden in a tree so that another wee bird might use it to lays its eggs in.  May was really interested and watched while Rowan found the perfect spot – in the branches of a tree.

Graduation Week

Big excitement today – Green, Blue and Yellow graduations are at 11am this morning in the Infant Gym hall.  Please bring tissues!

Tomorrow we do it again for the Red and Orange groups – same time, same place!

We have been enrolling our new wee ones for next year over the last couple of weeks – they look so tiny compared to our big Nursery grads!  Where have the last 2 years gone?

Sports

On Friday it’s Sports Day – we are sure the sun is going to shine for us.  The morning sports is at 11am in the Nursery Playground and the afternoon sports, which will include our all day children, will take place in the playground at 3.10pm.   We hope you have been in training for the adults races- there are fabulous cups to be won!! As usual, no expense has been spared!

We are into the final week of nursery – 7 sleeps till the last day!!  Not that we are counting!

 

 

 

tToday was an exciting day in Nursery – the final event in our Joint Active Learning Project with Primary 1 – our Big Pirate Party.  We were all divided into our Pirate Crews – the Black Pearl, the Emerald Raider, the Fiery Parrot and the Golden Dawn.  Two crews at a time went Treasure Hunting on the Island, and the other two crews took part in jolly pirate frollicks in the playground- playing Tug O’ War and Port and Starboard.  The treasure hunters first had to look for their crew’s clues.  These were jigsaw pieces hidden round the garden on their crew colours.  We had to look very hard indeed to find all the parts of the jigsaw for our crew, on which the big clue was written.

 

The Emerald Raider’s treasure was found 3 paces from the willow tunnel, buried in the long grass!   At last all the treasure had been found!

 

 

Today the Dentist visited nursery to count the teeth of all our little ante-pre-schoolers.  She brought a special friend called Donald, who showed us exactly what we should do.  We could choose either Minion or Frozen sunglasses to wear and we had to lie on the table and open our mouths wide.  Our teeth were counted and lots of us had 20!!  Afterwards, we climbed down and could choose a special sticker to wear to show how super we had been.

 Today our frog watchers noticed something amazing. Ronnie noticed what he said was, “A frog with a tail!” A couple of our tadpoles had grown both back and front legs.  Elisabeth helped catch one so we could take his/her picture.  “He’s almost a real frog now!” said Ella Rose.

This is the amazing structure that Harris built at the construction area yesterday.  He took time to make it symmetrical and it is definitely a grand design of the future.

Harris was very proud of his building and his mum let us put his picture on the blog.  Amazing work Harris!

 

On Tuesday morning Sam was in his favourite place – sitting at the writing table.  It was not to be a writing day though – he felt a bit creative. ” I’m making a phone!” he said.  He cut it out and drew the buttons.  “Now I need headphones- do we have any string?”  Kate sourced the string and they worked out that they needed to tie 2 bits together for the headphones.  Sam then used paper and cut 2 wee ear pieces.  He carefully sellotaped them on – next he sellotaped the headphones to the phone and got plugged in.  What a clever lad!  I wonder what he’s listening to?

  This is some of the fantastic artwork done at Valerie’s painting table last week.    She put the paints out in glass jars and encouraged the children to use the colours one at a time.  The results were amazing!  These pictures are going to Primary 1, both at Milngavie and Craigdhu, so that our wee stars all have a piece of their own work on the wall, when they arrive on the very first day.  We hope that reminding them to look for their painting will make them feel more at home in their new class.

A huge thank you to the mums who came to the Nursery Night at the Fraser Centre- they raised an amazing £201 for the nursery and had a great night too!  Many, many thanks to Dawn and Debs for organising it for us all.  Dawn has some photos which she is going to send me to post on the blog!!!

This week is health week in school and Nursery has been involved in some of the planned activities.  This morning we are joining P1 for Enjoy-a-Ball sessions in the gym   This afternoon we are joining P1 to have a visit from the firefighters and see the fire engine.

On Tuesday our ante-pre-school children (our 3 year olds) are having their dental inspection.

At 9.15am we are going to a talk on Stanger Danger with Primary 1

Wednesday morning is our big Pirate Party, fingers and hooks crossed for a lovely day.  Both Primary 1 classes and all our morning nursery children are getting together for a big Pirate celebration to mark the end of a very successful and fun, joint active learning project.  We’re having a tug of war, treasure hunt, pirate dancing and special pirate provisions on Wednesday morning and our afternoon pre-schoolers are invited to attend between 9.30am and 10.30am.

Graduations are next week – Blue, Yellow and Green Groups  on Monday 20th – 11am in the Infant Gym

Red and Orange Groups on Tuesday 21st –  11am in the Infant Gym

You are welcome to bring grannies, aunties etc and a big box of tissues (for the staff as well as yourselves)

Sports Day is Friday 24th June – 11am in the Nursery Playground for the morning group and 3.10pm for our all day children and our afternoon session children.  Please come along and cheer us on – bring your running shoes for the mum’s and dad’s races too!!!!

Tuesday 28th June is the last day of term and the baby of our team – Lauren – is 21!!!!!  Only 11 sleeps!!!!