Yesterday the Investigators helped choose the fruit for our fruit medley afternoon snack, the children then assisted in the washing and chopping of the fruit using their chopping knives. The Investigators chose strawberries, pear, peach, banana and orange and they made enough for everyone. It proved to be hard work avoiding the peach stone and cutting the […]
This afternoon the Investigators helped build a bug house at the back of the nursery, we used wooden pallets that were kindly given to us by a parent (Thank you), a supply of sticks that we have been collecting from our walks (and from a certain child’s collection from home, Thank you), some old plant […]
On Wednesday the Investigators took part in a Clean Up Scotland at Figgate Park. In cooperation with our Eco Schools the children took part in a talk about litter and the different facilities where we can dispose of our litter before their litter pick. During the litter pick the children helped dispose of the litter […]
Yesterday the Investigators took a trip to Dr Neil’s Garden to observe the change of season in the surroundings. We were lucky to get a guided tour around the garden by Liz Jack and her dogs, we seen a variety of trees including apple and pear, swans, squirrels and we collected leaves and pine cones to […]
The Searchers went on a trip to Dobbies to buy fish for our fish tank. The children enjoyed having a look at all the different fish in all the tanks, we seen big and small ones and also different coloured ones. We bought a black one with white spots and also a red and black […]
Today the Investigators pulled up the rest of the vegetables that they planted in Spring. We pulled up our ‘rainbow carrots’ purple, yellow and orange. We pulled up the last of our potatoes and we also pulled up our parsnips that grew. The children were very impressed at the size of our carrots. We washed […]
Today Lilian and PJ Bear visited us from the Sick Kids Friends Foundation. Lilian and PJ came to thank us for our fantastic fundraising. Lilian told us all about the bump’s that PJ bear has had, and whether he had to go to the doctors or the hospital. PJ brought his first aid box with […]
This month the Investigators have been learning about Transport, to tie in with their topic the children last week took a walk to the Beach with their clip boards to take part in a transport hunt.
Yesterday the Searchers welcomed back Claire for the start of their 6 enjoy-a-ball classes. This start of class seen the Searchers try their hand at Claire’s instructions for fun physical activities in our nursery garden. To start Claire sat the children down and explained the use of the resources before the physical fun started. One activity […]
This week the Searchers have been a bit excited…our fish tank arrived! The Searchers have helped to fill the tank with lovely pebbles, and plants. They took a little trip to dobbie’s as we needed more pebbles. We were unfortunately unable to get fish at this time due to the tank not being ready. But […]