First adventures nursery

June 14,2019

Exciting News

By Gillian Mustard
Turret towers
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The older children have had lots of fun at sports day this week. The children were in teams and worked their way around 6 activity stations. The egg and spoon was tricky but the hurdles presented the most difficulty! The highlight was the mummies and daddies race with the children cheering and clapp

June 13,2019

Being Creative

This week the babies have enjoyed being creative painting boxes in the garden. We also had lots of fun splashing about in water in the tuff tray and splashing the ladies. We have been very musical this week and enjoyed saying lots of nursery rhymes. Our favourite this week was Humpty Dumpty, and we

June 12,2019

Fathers Day

This week the children have been celebrating Father’s Day and some of the daddies have been in nursery to have a play session. The children loved exploring with their daddy and showing him some of their favourite things to do at nursery. We would like to thank the daddies for coming into nursery a

June 06,2019

An active week

By Gillian Mustard
Teddy Bear house
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The children have enjoyed being active this week! We have had lots of fun on the bouncy castle and practiced our throwing skills using the bean bags and the hoops. The children also spotted a bee in the flowers in the garden. We put some sugary water out for it so it could have a […]

June 05,2019

Bread making

By Gillian Mustard
Turret towers
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To follow our growing interest in STEM experiences, the children have chosen to make bread. We followed a recipe and added all of the ingredients to the bread maker. We explored the different textures of each of the ingredients. Once the bread was ready it smelt delicious, so we cut it up and had it

May 31,2019

Trips

By Gillian Mustard
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Another busy week for the children in the 3-5 playroom! The older children travelled all the way to Glasgow Science Centre, we enjoyed exploring all the interesting interactive exhibits. We travelled from Earth in the planetarium and explored the stars and planets. The younger children visited Almon

May 30,2019

Teddy Bear Picnic

We enjoyed having our mummies and daddies joining us at the teddy bears picnic this week. Due to the typical Scottish weather we were stuck inside, however this didn’t dampen our spirits and we had lots of fun. We bounced about on the bouncy castle, did some digging for treasure in the sand, paint

May 29,2019

Caterpillars

By Gillian Mustard
Turret towers
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The children were very excited this week to welcome some new visitors to the room. Following our interest over the last few weeks in pets and finding bugs in the nursery garden we now have 5 caterpillars. This week the children have been learning about the life cycle and what is going to happen to [

May 24,2019

Fire pit fun

By Gillian Mustard
Turret towers
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This week we have had lots of adventures outdoors. We had snack outdoors- toasting our bagels over the fire. This encourages the children to learn life skills – eating socially together and caring for their safety near the fire. This led the children to explore the experience through play, demonst

May 23,2019

Spiders

The children at Teddy Bear House have been very interested in spiders this week after seeing one in the garden. We visited the library to see if they had any spider story books we could borrow. We also enjoyed playing and mark making with the toy spiders in salt. We made some spiders webs and [&hell