We had our snack today at the Needle and Natter groups MacMillan coffee morning. We can confirm that the cakes were very good indeed! #CVN #macmillancoffeemorning #macmillancancersupport #yummycakes #dirtyfaces
We are gearing up for our (not too) grand opening ceremony and today the children made some butter to serve with our hedgerow jam. They were very enthusiastic about pouring the cream into the butter churn and starting to turn the handle but found that their arms got tired very quickly. Churning butter is hard work! Fortunately some good turn taking allowed us to keep going until we had some lovely creamy butter. The buttermilk left was too good to waste so we made a batch of girdle scones with it to eat with our lunch.
This is a good reminder of how our use of language (including our body language!) influences children. At CVN, as we head to the autumn and winter seasons, we will be thinking positively about the range of Scottish weather coming our way!! 🌞🌪🌬⛈💦❄️🌧🌦☃️🌈
We were given some spare rolls of turf and decided to give our playhouse a living roof. Hopefully it will add some more colour and interest to our garden.
We’ve been continuing to harvest some fruit and vegetables from our garden and hedgerows. Today we made a smoothie for snack and, instead of our usual sourdough bread, made soda bread. We pulled some beetroot and spring onions from the garden and made them into soup. All of our children came back for seconds!
We have had a new table delivered and our children set to work to build it, checking the instructions beforehand and making sure they had all the pieces they needed.
It was lovely to be back in the woods today! We have a new play site and enjoyed exploring it and seeing what different things we could find there. We had several new children with us today and it is amazing to see how much more confident and independent they became after just a few hours in the woods. We are looking forward to seeing how our sessions develop as we become more familiar with the new site.
We each chose a special tree in our site and gave it a name. The names we chose were Nursery, Bramble, Firework, Violet, Tractor, Baby Teddy, Florence and Lanky Larry. We will be keeping an eye on our trees as we move further into autumn and then winter so see how they change.
Today our children were engaged in sorting sticks and matching the different kinds of wood. Some of the sticks were marked with the ancient Celtic Ogham alphabet and some with the English name and so we tried to work out which sticks matched. The bark and markings on some of the wood were quite different.
The beetroot in our garden is ready for harvesting so we picked 2 and took them into the playroom to wash (we brought some ants in too so we had to take them back out) and grate. (We tasted some and decided it tasted really good). We put some into today’s bread dough and it made the dough bright pink. Once it was cooked it wasn’t quite as pink as when we pot it in to the oven but you can still see the evidence of the beetroot there. It had an earthy beetroot taste (strangely enough 🤣) but was still quite pleasant. The children definitely preferred their “normal” bread but we will be experimenting more soon!
Cambusbarron Village Nursery 