Miss Fleming

Miss Fleming has enjoyed staying active by going on daily walks and cycles. She has cycled from Linlithgow to the Falkirk wheel and back. On this adventure, she had to go through the canal tunnel, which is 630 metres long, which is the longest canal tunnel in Scotland.

On her walks Miss Fleming has seen frog spawn, frogs, lambs, a deer and ducks with their ducklings.

Miss Fleming has even enjoyed dressing up! Do you like dressing up, what is your favourite costume and why?

Miss Thomson

Miss Thomson has been exploring the countryside with her son, they have found tadpoles, stickman and climbed trees and big hills. They collected some tadpoles and have put them in a tank so they can look after them at home. What have you seen when out your walks/cycles?

Miss Thomson even gave her dog Dolly a haircut!…poor Dolly 🙁

Mrs Sharkey

Mrs Sharkey has enjoyed baking lots of yummy treats!, This week she made Gingerbread, why don’t you give it a try? Here is the recipe and instructions:

Miss Ritchie

Miss Ritchie has enjoyed walking her dog Mr Smudge in the woodlands next to her house. Have you got any pets?, we would love to see them on your Learners Journal.

Mrs Rafferty

Mrs Rafferty has been busy making this lovely Sensory fairy garden for her granddaughter, it is full of different smelling herbs. Do you think you could make a fairy garden, what herbs will you put in?

Mrs Rafferty has also been giving her children cooking lessons, last night they made spaghetti and meatballs. Here is the recipe if you would like to try and make them.

Miss Campbell

Miss Campbell has been cycling a lot during lock down and has bumped into a few children. If you can spot Miss Campbell out on her bike ride/run, challenge her to something (5 star jumps, a race).

Lothian Autistic Society are taking part in the 2.6 Challenge, this involves taking part in an activity of your choice around the number 2.6 or 26 and donate to support. By taking part in the 2.6 Challenge, whether it be through running 2.6 miles, doing 26 keepy-uppies in a row, creating your own 26 minute quiz or holding a plank for 26 seconds.

Miss Campbell has chosen to do the full 26 miles over a few days to raise funds for Lothian Autistic Society! Well done Miss Campbell!! 🙂

Mrs MacKenzie

Mrs MacKenzie has been enjoying a lot of time outdoors with her family. They have been gardening, walking and cycling and have found some new pathways and routes to explore. On her walks she has seen deer, buzzards, rabbits, hares, robins, some of the animals at Mill Farm and her children and husband saw a Kingfisher – but it was too fast for Mrs MacKenzie!! The family also often walk at dusk and night-time and have seen lots of bats and heard the owls calling to each other.

Indoors Mrs MacKenzie has – camped in a pop up tent in the living room with her son, baked some gluten free treats, enjoyed some of her daughters new recipes, read books (in a den that we built underneath the dining table), painted stones, facetimed family and friends, watched films, played games (Who’s in the Bag? is the favourite), drew, coloured in, wrote letters to friends and family and played very competitive games of Nerf Challenge. Have you got a Nerf gun?, why don’t you set up some targets and try to knock them down?

Mrs Bazely

Mrs Bazely has been spending her time felting. Needle felting is taking some plain old wool and making it into felt, you use a special long needle that’s has lots of barbs on it to roll up, poke the wool over and over again into any shape you want and make it stiffen up into felt, this can take a really long time. Once you’re done and have the shape you can use smaller bits of dyed wool to add colour and details. Have you made anything using a needle?

Mrs Laing

Mrs Laing has been enjoying time with her own children, Cameron and Harris.   They made perfume using flowers and leaves in their garden.  They used big stones to grind petals and leaves, they crushed and cut some petals and added it all to water and mixed it altogether.  They added more petals and leaves until they were happy with the scent!  They called their perfume “Lemon Bee”.  Can you make your own perfume?

Mrs Laing also helped her boys make shadow puppets.  They drew sea creatures and stuck them onto pencils and used torches to create shadows on a wall.  They made the creatures bigger and smaller by moving the torch forwards and backwards.  Cameron and Harris performed a puppet show for Mrs Laing.  There was a very ferocious shark!  We would love to see photos of your puppets or puppet shows.

Mrs Shemilt

Mrs Shemilt And her family have been cycling 6 miles most days to deliver her dad his paper. They have also cycled nearly 8 miles at the weekend to Almondell & back!!  They have seen lots of different types of birds, they even spotted a heron. What have you spotted at Almondell?

Indoors they have been doing lots of baking at home & Lucy’s been measuring out all the ingredients and they planted some veg at the start of lockdown & got their first lot of radish at the weekend! Lucy has also been making some monsters from the recycling!!

Out in the garden they have a teepee & have been camping & eating their dinner out there,  although Mrs Shemilt said it was freezing!.

Have you been camping or camped in your garden before, you could share your camping experience on your Learning Journal.

I hope you have enjoyed reading what we have been doing and remember we love to see all the fun you are having as well so please post your adventures/activities on your Learners Journals for us to see and comment on.

EC Nursery Team

Hi all 🙂

Here are some activities you can do at home to support the LiFT (Learning is fun together) training we started to introduce in nursery (at stay and play). These are simple listening games which will support your child’s learning as they move into Primary 1, as they help develop their listening and concentration skills.

Please click on the links bellow

Games: Teaching Children to Listen…at Home! (EY)

Pictures:: 

Teaching Children to Listen pictures 2, Teaching Children to Listen pictures 3, Teaching Children to Listen pictures 4 

EC Nursery Team