This week the turtles and peacocks made some shortbread for everyone, we followed instructions and developed our hand eye co-ordination while baking.

Re-telling familiar stories, this week we were exploring The three little pigs and Goldilocks and the three bears. We added some props to the home corner and played with some wooden figures to act out what happened in the stories.

We had a lovely bookbug session where we read a story all about emotions and enjoyed joining in with our songs.

In the tuff tray we had some metal teapots with tea cups where we explored filling and emptying. Where we spoke about some fancy tea parties with our lovely fancy hats.

This week we were celebrating Burns day. We had a variety of activities. We had fun make tartan prints, trying some shortbread and dancing to Scottish dancing.

we had some special visitors at the ECC  this past week.

We have enjoyed exploring some ice play where we used some mathematical language and using descriptive words.

And having some lovely Christmas stories at our lovely home corner.

This week within the birch room the children have enjoyed their Christmas party. We played some party games and enjoyed dancing and playing in the gym hall.

We have started our Christmas crafts and been learning all about the Christmas story and playing with our nativity figures.

Just like Santa and his elves we have been exploring the wrapping station to wrap some presents for under our Christmas tree.

Because we have been focusing on mindfulness we introduced massage to the children, we followed some simple actions to the song twinkle twinkle little star. Before we begin we ask permission if they would like to have a massage and use this as another tool to help us be calm.

We have been learning about how to stay safe.

we added a road safety zone to the garden where we practiced crossing the road safely.

we also practiced how to stay safe when we have our camp fire within the garden and went over the rules again.

This week within the playroom we have:

explored pumpkins where we scraped out the inside of the pumpkin  just like our story pumpkin soup and used some golf tees with a hammer to practice our hand eye co-ordination.

we also made some pizza this week where we cut up some vegetables and fruit for some toppings and made our own pizza dough to enjoy

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we explored some autumn items and made some transient art pictures.

Halloween has arrived at Whatriggs ECC, we have been busy making some of our own decorations in preparation for next weeks Halloween activities. We have also been reading this story to find out about Halloween began.