Blog Cothrom Òg

Crofting topic

4/6/2021

In conjunction with our spring topic the 3-5 group have been learning a little about Old MacDonald and his farm. The children have engaged well with this topic and have been taking part in various activities, which have included some ploughing and feeding of the many animals on their pretend farm.

Biastagan

4/6/2021

The 3-5 group have started a new topic on mini beasts they have had lots of fun exploring outside to see what mini beasts they could find, they found lots of wiggly worms. They also made some ladybug flapjacks which all the children really enjoyed taking part in.

June 04th, 2021

4/6/2021

The 2-3 group have just finished their topic ‘Na Deich Spuinnich Bheaga’ the children have really enjoyed this topic as they have focused on numbers 1-10 and have learnt about some under the sea animals, they even got to see a real life octopus! They also made their very own pirate ship and enjoyed role playing as pirates.

Sensory play

4/6/2021

Olivia is loving covering Daddy Pig in bubbles. She spent ages playing in the water and extending the bubble blowing to making patterns.

Ceitidh is enjoying the feeling of the artificial snow, making her animals get stuck in the snow for her to rescue. The artificial snow is dry powder, mixed with water to make snow, which felt cold to the touch. Our winter theme is coming to an end.

Seonaidh is taking his time gluing his torn pieces of tissue paper onto his snowflake as part of our winter topic. Seonaidh spent quite a bit of time deciding which colour to put where.

Learning about faces

4/6/2021

The baby room have been working on a Gàidhlig song to help learn their features. They created a face for the wall, which they all helped to paint and colour. They also loved investigating and exploring Mr Potato Head to help learn where all their features go.

Learning the colours - na dathan

4/6/2021

Miller enjoying some creating time at the art easel. She loves to explore different brush strokes and has good control of the paint brush. Miller is making a purple shape to go on the colour wall.

Jo loving the texture of the paint and getting her hands messy. This is an orange shape to be added to the colour wall, a visual tool to become more aware of ‘na dathan’

Darragh making a valentine’s card, he is concentrating so hard, taking in the effect the paint has on the paper.

Quack Quack

21/4/2021

Thank you to Laura Skinner who dropped off 3 chicks to visit last week. This week Laura dropped off 2 runner ducklings and a chick to visit – as you can see, all the children loved the chance to get to hold the chicks and ducklings. It is so important for the children to have these opportunities, as some children wouldn’t otherwise experience this. They were all so careful when holding the chicks and duckling, asking questions about them, what they eat, where the mammies and daddies were and where they sleep. Laura has offered to drop the duckling back once they are a bit bigger so the children can see the difference in them, how they have grown, how they look when their feather grow in and how they change colour.

Na tri Mucan beaga

13/4/2021

The 2-3's topic (Na tri Mucan beaga) is coming to an end - they made pig biscuits which they enjoyed doing.

The baby room are finishing off their chicks and lambs for the spring wall - this was even more fun after we had a visit from the lambs on Wednesday afternoon.

An t-earrach

7/4/2021

In connection to our topic 'An t-earrach' across all the groups, we had arranged for some visitors to pop into the garden... 6 pet lambs. Everyone got the opportunity to give them all a bottle of milk. The lambs were well behaved and didn't eat our daffodils! Its good to be able to learn about different baby animals that are born in Spring.

Spring time play and crafting

4/3/2021

We have been spending a little time practicing our pencil grip and control. Here George is using a chalk pen, they are great (we even use them on the windows sometimes).

The boys are outside, enjoying some time to investigate the amount of water that has gathered in the tyres. One found a star fish in the sand area and took it up to put it in the water, telling us "it needs water to survive". Also ‘double trouble’ gathering water for their mud pies! Our poor mud kitchen took a bit of a battering in the recent gales, but this doesn’t stop us having some messy outdoor fun!

An artist at work – adding small detail to another masterpiece. Finn is drawing a picture of his family in the playpark

Coinneach has just joined us – he has had a great first week, particularly exploring our outdoor area. He enjoyed climbing our tyre climbing frame and investigating our tyre ladder.

Olivia is loving covering Daddy Pig in bubbles. She spent ages playing in the water and extending the bubble blowing to make patterns.

Ceitidh is enjoying the feeling of the artificial snow, making her animals get stuck in the snow for her to rescue. The artificial snow is dry powder, mixed with water to make snow, which felt cold to the touch. Our winter theme is coming to an end.

Seonaidh is taking his time gluing his torn pieces of tissue paper onto his snowflake as part of our winter topic. Seonaidh spent quite a bit of time deciding which colour to put where.

Miller enjoying some creating time at the art easel. She loves to explore different brush strokes and has good control of the paint brush. Miller is making a purple shape to go on the colour wall.

Jo loving the texture of the paint and getting her hands messy. This is an orange shape to be added to the colour wall, a visual tool to become more aware of ‘na dathan’.

Darragh making a valentine’s card, he is concentrating so hard, taking in the effect the paint has on the paper.