Clarence House Nursery

This is what Marcello and Jock did one day last week.
They enjoyed exploring shaving foam. Well – they will eventually turn into men and they need to learn to spread the stuff!!!

This morning we all went across to the meadow and met the Stick Man (photo).
He read us a story and taught us a song.
We also had to gather 3 sticks each to make our own wee stick men.
We loved this and had a very good time.

Here is Arthur being Indianna Jones today, complete with hat.
Louise helped him make the hat using paper and a ribbon and Arthur hasn’t taken it off all day!! Arthur has also been helped to use YOUTUBE to find the theme tune; so if your little one comes home humming this tune you now know where it came from!!

Today we planned and designed our own face masks. It was Jack’s idea (photo) – he has been pretending to be Batman all week and he came up with the mask making idea. Cutting out the eye holes was really tricky but we tried our best!!

This is the most popular thing at Mugdock. The zip slide – we all love it.
Here is Lucia giving a demonstration on how to do it and check out Mora’s face because she’s last in the queue!!!!

We all want to send our 9 little school beginners our very best wishes as they start school today.
The nursery is really quiet now that you have all left.
Remember your old nursery motto “HAVE FUN – BE SAFE”
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We are now officially a pet sitting service as well as daycare. Here is Dylan helping with one of our little visiting stick insects that an ex-pupil, Maria, has left in our care. The learning opportunities have been bountiful with the children finding out where to find bramble leaves to feed them and also some interesting facts about how they can grow more legs if they accidentaly lose one to a bird!! We have even made a beautiful display area where we made our own model stick insects and hung them from the ceiling.
We will take anything smaller than an elephant!!

This is what we did this morning. We were invited along to take part in woodland adventure in the Meadow. The Meadow is a local wild place that is earmarked for development and we are supporting a local group who are trying to block the planning permission.
The children were taught how to make dens (picture) and enjoyed looking for mini beasts. ~They also loved gathering their own ingredients to make magic potions to help save the forest animals.
Thank you to Emily and Susan for organizing the event,