I can’t believe we are so close to the end of term.  What a  busy term it has been! We have been focusing on our community this term. We have had lots of opportunities to get out and about on local walks, looking for signs of spring, visits to xcite cafe, Pumpherston park, Craigmair nursing home, Jaks’ Den and Almondale farm! The children have really enjoyed these new experiences and have got lots out of the different visits.

The parks proved popular with everyone, the swings, trampolines and sand pits were definitely favourites.  We also really enjoyed our own garden and playground and have been making the most of the nice weather by splashing in our paddling pool too!

We enjoyed making cards for people in the community that help us and we also raised money for a local charity, Jaks’s den by baking sweet treats and selling them in school.  We raised a whopping £300!

I have been so impressed by all of the children’s progress this term too. Each and everyone of them has worked so hard on their targets and made really positive steps. I hope everyone has a well earned rest over summer and we look forward to seeing you all soon!

We have had a busy term in Lammermuir.  We have had lots of events such as World Book Day,  Science week and Red Nose Day. We have enjoyed exploring all these themes with fun messy play activities, art Activities, baking and Sensory stories.

For world Book Day we enjoyed the Hungry Caterpillar story and activities in class and we enjoyed an outdoor book hunt and the Goldilocks and three bears story and some puppet shows!

The Red Nose Day cafe was great fun we loved baking our empire biscuits and using the photo booth.  We also danced along to the Red Nose Day song.

For science week we made some seed bombs and gave them to our mums for Mothers Day and we also made a grass head which we water in class.

We have been getting some new things for our garden and have enjoyed exploring them.  We got some new outdoor chalk boards, some musical toys and mirrors and also some mud kitchen toys.  We have been enjoying some nicer weather and making the most of it in our outdoor space.

We have been learning about spring and Easter too.  We enjoyed an egg hunt in the garden and also decorated some Easter eggs.

What a busy term, the children have all worked so hard on all their targets this term too and we have seen lovely progress! We hope everyone enjoys their well earned break!

Our topic is Elmer the Elephant this term.  We have been doing lots of fun activities linked to the book.  We read an interactive version of the story and all the children enjoyed feeling the animals and using the switch.

We have done some messy play activities with colourful rice, ice cubes and pom poms! Everyone explored the different textures and colours really well. In art we made our very own Elmer using milk cartons and tissue paper, we also used colourful paint in lots if ways to make some wonderful pieces of art. We explored paint, pens and crayons in theses activities.

We did a little science experiment with skittles and watched all the colours spreading around the plate and we played with coloured ice cubes and watched the colour mixing as the melted too! We have been exploring colour in our colour group too, the children enjoyed choosing different items to explore in this group.

What a fun topic this has been!