It’s a beautiful autumn day and we are having a day in the orchard today.\u00a0 At the weekend a working party has been in the garden taking out more of the rotten wood, building a new raised bed and filling the gabions with gravel to finish them off.\u00a0 The beds which had the potatoes in have been dug over and the garden is beginning to look beautiful again.\u00a0 Many, many thanks to the families who came along to help Anne and Shaun achieve all this.\u00a0 Anne has brought us some of her apple crop from home to allow us to make some apple juice in our orchard apple press.\u00a0 We are hoping that our wee baby trees, which have been growing well this year, might begin to produce apples for us next year.\u00a0 In the meantime we are very grateful to Anne for her apples.\u00a0 If you have an apple tree and a lot of surplus apples, please bring them in and we will make some lovely apple juice for snack.<\/p>\n
This week in nursery we are looking at the changes Autumn has brought to the outside world.\u00a0 We are going to be collecting beautiful autumn leaves, conkers, acorns and all sorts of seeds and bringing them in to nursery to use them creatively for inspiration in our paintings and models, and to examine more closely on our interest table.\u00a0 We will be thinking about why it is getting colder and the nights are getting darker earlier\u00a0 and enjoying seasonal fruit at snack time.\u00a0 For our children this is only their 3rd or 4th Autumn on this planet so it is really new and exciting.\u00a0 We will be extending the vocabulary of autumn and displaying new words we are introducing as part of our Word Aware program, on the hall walls.<\/p>\n
Maureen is\u00a0 creating a “What fills our bucket?” display in the hall, gathering children’s comments on what makes them happy.\u00a0 Well worth a read!<\/p>\n
On Wednesday we are taking the children for an Autumn Walk to Barloch Moor, to look at the effects of the change of the season on our woodlands.\u00a0 It is also a chance for our pre-schoolers to look at where we will be going for our Forest Kindergarten sessions this year.\u00a0 Fingers crossed for a beautiful, crisp day.<\/p>\n
On Wednesday Kate and Dionne are attending a 5 to Thrive Conference at Kilmardinny House – we’ll let you know what was all about later in the week.<\/p>\n
On Friday we are having another happy Snappy Sounds Music Session with Susan and her animal friends.<\/p>\n
4 PGDE Students from Strathclyde University joined our nursery team this morning.\u00a0 \u00a0 We are delighted to welcome them to Milngavie ELCC and hope they will really enjoy their time here, and learn lots about the world of 3-5 year olds.\u00a0 They are teaching students on their Nursery Teaching Placement. They will be with us for the next 2 weeks.\u00a0 They are:<\/p>\n
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<\/a>Morven Quinn<\/p><\/div>\n
<\/a>Helen Maynard<\/p><\/div>\n
<\/a>Katie Clark<\/p><\/div>\n
<\/a>Kirsty Semple-Barr<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
It’s a beautiful autumn day and we are having a day in the orchard today.\u00a0 At the weekend a working party has been in the garden taking out more of the rotten wood, building a new raised bed and filling … Continue reading