The children had such an amazing time visiting our local farm and getting the opportunity to feed baby lambs! This was a lovely experience for them all and they are still speaking about it within nursery. Thanks again to our lovely farmer for letting us come again this year 🐑

Thank you to all our families that joined us for our Easter Stay and Play and helped us to raise funds for the nursery. It was a lovely afternoon with lots of happy little faces 🐣 😊 we even had a special visit from the Easter bunny 🐰

Thank you to our families for joining us for Big Cook Little Cook! The children developed their fine motor, listening and social skills as they participated. Lots of lovely interactions. #peep #familyengagement

Thank you to our families who joined us for Family breakfast last week. It was a lovely relaxed start the the day and the children thoroughly enjoyed having something to eat with their families and friends 🥞 🍇 🍓

Thank you to our family members who came along to Bookbug. Lots of lovely singing. Our next Bookbug will be after the Easter Holidays as our Stay and Play is on Thursday. We hope you can all make it 🐣 🐰

We have been exploring our new felt story board and discussing the sequence of events for the story of ‘The Very Hungry Caterpillar’ 🐛 🦋

We have enjoyed the addition of new writing resources to the carpeted area. We have experimented with magic colour changing pens, making marks on sequin boards and using water pens on mats. We love watching the water dry in and our pictures disappear saying ‘it’s magic!’

Our story of the moment is Jack and the Beanstalk. We will be practicing our songs of the moment and would love if children could practice these at home too. 🎶Baa Baa Black Sheep 🎶 5 Speckled Frogs 🎶 Golden Daffodils 🎶 Little Peter Rabbit Our Signs of the Moment are Grow 🌱 and Happy 😃

As our story of the moment is jack and the beanstalk. We want to try and grow our own beanstalks. We discussed what they would need to grow and can’t wait to see how big they get! 🌱 ☀️ 💦

We continue to add to our Makaton signs each month. Our children enjoy learning new signs and I’m sure they would love to practice them at home too! Our Makaton signs of the moment are: Happy 😊

Join us tomorrow for Family Breakfast. Come and have a slow start to your day and enjoy something to eat with your child and stay for a little play too if you wish. Nadine will be waiting from 8.30-9.30, drop in anytime. A chance for you to have a chat with other parents and staff too😊 🍽️ #PEEP

Thank you to our families who joined us for Big Cook Little Cook! Lots of lovely interactions and skill development! #peep

Fun at Bookbug. Thank you to our lovely parents who joined us! Bookbug is on every Thursday at 2.15PM. Please come along and join your child for some singing and a story in a relaxed and cosy environment! Any questions please speak to Nadine or Angela. 📖 🎵 #peep #bookbug

Thank you to reverend Scott for joining us one morning to tell us about the story of Easter!

Thank you to all our families who joined us for a lovely Daffodil Tea on Friday! It was lovely to see you all and the children all had a lovely afternoon 🌼 🎂

Thank you to our families for joining us for family breakfast this morning 🥐 🫐 lots of lovely interactions #PEEP #parentalengagement

We voted for our new story of the moment ‘The Three Billy Goats’ We will be practicing our songs of the moment and would love if children could practice these at home too. If you would like a copy please speak to a member of staff 🎶Hickory Dickory Dock, 5 Currant Buns, Tommy Thumb, Chinese Dragon

We were excited to see Chinese New Year provocations and books in the playroom today. We discussed what happens during the celebrations and helped to make a dragon with Ann in the art area 🎨 🐉

Fun at Bookbug this afternoon. Thank you to our parents that joined us. Bookbug is on every Thursday at 2.15. If you have any questions please speak to Nadine or Angela 📚 🎶

Yesterday we celebrated pancake day 🥞 we helped to make the batter and learned how to be safe as Nadine cooked them. We said they were delicious and some of us even got to take them home to enjoy 🥞 😋

A little reminder for all parents Bookbug with Angela is on today at 2.15pm. A lovely opportunity to spend time with your child🎶 📖 #bookbug #peep

A little reminder for all parents Bookbug with Angela is on tomorrow at 2.15pm. A lovely opportunity to spend time with your child🎶 📖 #bookbug #peep

A gentle reminder for any parents who would like to come along this afternoon to a speech and language information session. A chance to have a chat in a relaxed environment. It is drop in so feel free to come along at any point between 1.30-3PM if you feel you could benefit from this support ❤️

We discussed our story of the moment. We wanted to create the three little pigs brick house because the wolf can’t blow that one down. We used salt dough to make lots of bricks and let them dry. We then positioned the bricks with glue to create houses using good problem solving and team work🏠

We have been interested in tracing pictures recently and were excited to see Nadine had brought in torches for us to explore shadows with items we found in nursery. We chose an item and were able to take our time to follow around the lines the shadow created on the paper 🔦 ❤️

Thank you to our lovely parents who joined us for Big Cook Little Cook. We made some yummy rock cakes and loved using our hands to combine the mixture. They all looked delicious, well done ❤️

Thank you to all of our families who joined us for our Burns Celebration this afternoon. Lots of lovely interactions as we danced and enjoyed a little taste of Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 special thank you to Ann and Jean for preparing our delicious Haggis, Neeps & Tatties 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 a lovely afternoon had by all 💙

We had fun today exploring colour mixing using syringes and pipettes. We dropped food colouring onto cotton pads to see how the colours changed. Lots of colour recognition, discussing changes that happened and developing our fine motor skills. Some of us noticed the numbers on the syringes too 🌈

Today we used different colours of tape to create tartan pictures. We developed our fine motor skills using the scissors and tape to create different patterns 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

We discussed tartan and looked at material in the art area. We made our own pattern using strips of paper. We were very proud of our tartan pictures when we were finished and liked seeing them on display🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Our first family breakfast of the year. Thank you to all our family members who came to enjoy some breakfast with our little ones and have a slow start to the morning ☕️ 🥐

The children enjoyed trying on some tartan kilts and asked to do Scottish dancing. They moved their bodies in different ways to copy the actions 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Join us tomorrow for Family Breakfast. Come and have a slow start to your day and enjoy something to eat with your child and stay for a little play too if you wish. Nadine will be waiting from 8.30-9.30, drop in anytime. A chance for you to have a chat with other parents and staff too😊 🍽️ #PEEP

Our children introducing and demonstrating our new signs of the moment on our first Makaton Monday. We would love if our families practiced our signs and songs with the children when they are at home. Please feel free to share their learning with us😊

We have been discussing Robert burns and exploring Scottish items today. We have been asking lots of questions and have asked to listen to some bagpipes 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

⭐️All Slamannan ELCC Families ⭐️ Please find below a link to our Christmas Virtual Playroom 🎅🏼⬇️ There is a photo attached below with further information. Wishing you all a Merry Christmas & a Happy New Year⛄️ docs.google.com/presentation...

Our last family breakfast of the year was a huge success 🥐 🍞 🍇 🫐 The children enjoyed a slow start to their morning with breakfast alongside their family member and then a little play with them afterwards. It was a wonderful morning with lots of lovely interactions #PEEP #ParentalEngagment

A very fun and wholesome afternoon at our Christmas mini market on Friday. Lots of lovely interactions between the children and their family members. There were so many happy faces! Thank you to our parents for their contributions to our fundraising! It is very much appreciated 🎅🏻💰

We were very excited to have a visit from Santa at our mini market on Friday 🎅🏻

Our children all looked amazing today in their Christmas jumpers and had a lovely Christmas lunch 🎅🏻🍽

Thanks to all our families in the under 3s room for joining us for Christmas curious cubs session, the children loved spending time with their adult exploring all the different messy play stations ☺️

In the under 3’s room we’ve had lots of Christmas fun this week! There has been lots of different experiences to explore. We decorated our tree made of oats, made our own Christmas trees from play dough and created snowmen from rice. It’s beginning to feel a lot like Christmas!

It’s getting very wintery and cold outside and we’ve even seen some snow. So today we made a giant snowflake and used our fine motor skills to draw up different coloured water into droppers then squeezed the water onto our snowflake to colour it in. We thought it looked beautiful ❄️

We have been developing our imagination in the garden. We have practiced problem solving, teamwork and numeracy skills as we created car garages, petrol stations, ice cream shops, cafes, trains and homes. Lots of early money skills as people visited our creations too💰🚂🏠🚗🍦☕️

Thank you to Reverend Scott for coming into nursery to read The Christmas Story to us ✨We all had great fun making donkey noises!

Bookbug this week was a lovely and relaxing session. The children enjoyed lying on their tummies to listen to the story and taking their shoes off to get comfortable. Thank you to one of our parents for coming along. A little reminder it will be on Thursday at 2.15pm 📖🎶

We made shortbread for St Andrews Day at Big Cook Little Cook. Thank you to the parents who came along and joined us. Lots of lovely interactions and skills being developed 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 👩🏼‍🍳

We made pizza today. We had fun using our ingredients to create different faces. We developed our fine motor skills as we chopped up the peppers and loved sharing what we helped to make with our friends asking them ‘do you like it?’ We even wanted to give some to our mums when they collected us 🍕

We’ve been reading The Three Billy Goats Gruff. We didn’t want the Troll to be hungry so we fed him some porridge instead of goat! We’ve been using our imagination loads this week pretending to be the troll and the goats and building bridges.

We enjoyed tasting our yummy soup we helped to make this afternoon. We talked about the ingredients that were in it and if we liked it or not. Some children had more than one bowl! Nadine was so happy to see lots of lovely interactions at the table as she had some soup with us 🥣❄️🤍