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Category Archives: General
Collective Nouns
Yesterday I saw a gaggle of geese (and some goslings), a herd of cows and a flock of sheep. Can you think of any other names for groups of birds or animals?
Paper Dolls
If you’ve read (or listened to) Julia Donaldson’s Paper Dolls story (our version available here) you might like to try making your own. What would you call your dolls?
There are some more templates for dolls here
Something round!
Can you find something round?? OOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
Newts in the pond
Yesterday I showed you a dead frog I found when I was out walking, today I have some video of some of the wildlife in my garden pond! Have you noticed anything swimming around when you’ve been out and about? There hasn’t been much rain recently so not many puddles to see but maybe you are lucky enough to be near a pond that still has water? Hopefully the recent rain will fill everything up quickly and we will be able to see more water creatures.
Another visit from Bunny
Our children were delighted to have another visit from Islay the flat coated retriever and her baby Bunny today. Everyone was amazed at how much Bunny has grown in just over 2 weeks. Her eyes are open and they are blue and now she can almost walk but she is still quite wobbly. She even has a little tooth. We took turns to hold her and stroke her very gently and learned that we had to be calm and quiet around her so as not to frighten her.
Exploring bike bits
Exploring bike parts thanks to Recyke-a-bike Stirling 🚲🚲🚲
Spring flowers on the way to school
Our pre-schoolers went on a visit to school this morning and, on the way, we noticed some more wildflowers. This time we found white, yellow, purple and pink ones. We’ve made a stab at naming them, happy to accept corrections however 😊
Dandelion 
Cuckoo flower (lady’s smock) 
White bluebells 
Narcissus 
Daisies 
Daffodil 
Purple bluebells 
Comfrey 
Wild garlic
Spring flowers in the woods
Now that spring is really here we have been noticing changes in the woods. Spring flowers are starting to appear and here are some that we noticed today. We also were very interested in the different kinds of moss we could see, some was fluffy, some spiky, some soft and some jaggy. There were so many different kinds of green too! We collected some leaves, lots of different shapes and sizes and sorted the flowers into colours. We found white wood sorrel and bluebells, purple bluebells and violets and blue bluebells. We also some some bracken starting to grow – it was curled up in a roll and it was fluffy to touch.
Wood sorrel 
White bluebells! 
Lots of different textures and colours in the moss 
Curly bracken 
Bluebells 
Wood sorrel 
Violet 
Some of the colours and shapes we found in the woods 
Spiky bracken 
Bracken
Getting our garden ready
We spent some time this morning getting our garden ready for planting. We tidied up the weeds (and decided that weeds are just plants growing in the wrong places) and dug up our flower beds ready to plant. We are going to plant some vegetables, we think carrots, pumpkins, potatoes and yummy cabbage would be good and also some flowers, maybe some rainbow roses and sunflowers!
Cambusbarron Village Nursery 