This week we went back to the polytunnel for a walk on Monday and found more frogs!

We have also been busy hanging out the claes this week. This is really good for wir fine motor development, dat claes pegs can be tricky to use sometimes!

It was really horrible weather on Tuesday, never stopped raining the whole day, so we were very excited to get back outside on Wednesday to play. Of course we found lots of worms and slugs since they love the rain. We also found a muddy puddle that was so much fun to jump into, we even found worms in that!

We have also had fun inside this week, we have been very busy at the playdough, Noah made some lovely bright red playdough for us, and we have attended a few weddings too!

Thursday was quite a windy day but it did not keep wiz inside. We got the wind sock out and it was blowing really high! We also took shelter a lot in wir ‘storm house’, everybody had to pack in when the rain started! We had a giant bit of cardboard that kept blowing away through the garden so we had to work together to get it safely back into the storm house too.

Today was a really fine day so we went down to the play equipment and we ended up joining in play time with the school bairns. It was really exciting to see wir friends that are in P1 noo, and some of wir big brothers and sisters too. We even went on the tar with the play leaders and did an obstacle course with them which was a lot of fun!

This week we got new stones in our construction area as we continue our garden upgrade. The bairns got to work right away loading them up and tipping them out.

Insects continue to be very popular, this week we found worms and slugs. The lasses even found new homes for their slugs!

We have also loved using chalk this week outside, especially getting the teachers to draw around us so we could draw our features, and today we drew around Miss Stewart! We have also been practising writing numbers with the chalk, Joe learned how to write one thousand million!

Indoors, dinosaurs and babies continue to be very popular in our play, this week they all went to toddlers with their babies.

We have definitely made the most of the good weather this week and been outside nearly all week.

We needed errands fae da shop today so we decided to go for a walk to get them, and since it was such a fine day we went to da pier first to see the boats.

We saw lots of creels and huge wooden boxes which Miss Stewart told us was for keeping lobsters and crabs in once they were catched in the creels. She told wiz about the Linga raft too, it can have quad bikes on it!

We went on the sailing ramp for a look. Hazel knew it was sailing boats on the ramp and we saw Andy & Magnie’s Daa’s sailing boat too. We went on the marina for a look next as Andy wanted to show wiz his Daa’s peerie boat. There were lots of boats, some were bigger and some were smaller. We met Andy’s Daa Ian fixing a boat too.

We stopped to look at a phone box, Tommy said he had seen lots of them in Edinburgh before. We found a massive stop sign on the ferry ramp too.

We saw scallop boats, a huge yacht and the ‘Comrades’, the boat the Andy & Hazel’s dads work on!

After all the excitement at the pier we still had to go to the shop for wir errands!

Then it was time for the long uphill walk back to nursery for a well deserved rest and some snack.

Joe took some caterpillars into nursery to show us last Friday. The bairns were very excited by them and asked if we could go on a walk to look for more. We also used the scavenger hunt from Peerie Ooricks ‘Going Furt’pack so we got wir magnifying glasses ready and set off on wir adventure.

We found worms straight away on the path then we went to the Wild Garden where the bairns were convinced we wid find bears too!

Next stop was the polytunnel. We found frogs in there but they were too fast for the teachers to catch! We also found a massive pumpkin growing! And apples, which we took back to nursery. We had a look at the pond but did not see any frogs there this time.

We saw lots of insects on wir walk and found lots of different coloured things to match up to the scavenger hunt we were doing.

When we got back to nursery we cut up the apple and tasted it, it was delicious. We gave some to the worms and the caterpillars too! We also had a look at all the things we had gathered on wir walk. We even found books in nursery with some of the creatures inside them. Then Andy found a slug in the garden he took in to show wiz and it pooped on him!

The summer holidays are over and everyone is very excited to be back at nursery! The first week was spent welcoming our new bairns and reminding our preschoolers of all our routines. The weather was very good too so we spent a lot of time in the garden. It’s good to be back!