Numeracy home links Week 4

Week 4

Measurement and Capacity.

In your home how many spoons can you find?

Can you order them correctly?

What one is the longest/ shortest?

What one is the heaviest/lightest?

Can you draw your spoons?

I can compare by size and attempt to use the correct vocabulary ie, big, bigger, biggest.

I can use measuring resources such as scales, rulers and measuring sticks to record size.

I can use non standard items for measure such as hands, feet and blocks etc.

 

Numeracy Home link – Week 1

Home link challenge 1

Hello everyone, hope you are all well and ready for a wee challenge with your child.  Over the next 4 weeks, I will have small numeracy challenges planned that the children can try, either indoors or outdoors.  This is a great opportunity to spend quality time with your child.

Measuring and comparing.

Can you assist your child in using different sized pans to fill up your sink or basin?

– How many small pans/ large pans did you use?

– Is the basin or sink full?

– What other items could you use to fill up the sink? –  kettle, bottles, jugs

– Could you draw me a picture of the items you used?

I can use the language of capacity – full or empty

I can use non standard items for measuring – hands, feet, blocks, jugs and bottles

I can identify items by size and/or amount – big/small, light/heavy, full/empty from a choice of two.

 

Numeracy home link Week 3

Hello this is week three of your child’s challenge, I would be really grateful for your participation.

Shapes

.- How many circles can you find in the house?

– How many items can you find that are a circle or have a circle within?

-What other shapes can you find in the house, can you name them?

-What resources can you use to make your own shapes?

-Can you match the shapes in the house?

-Can you name and draw the shapes you have found?

I can match shapes through the use of games such as posting shapes in a shape box, or placing shapes on a shape game.

I can recognise and name a range of 2D shapes including, square, circle, triangle and rectangle.

I can match 2D shapes to their outline

 

Come Dine With Me Health and Wellbeing Parental Workshop 25/10/2023

Please have a look at the attached sway to see how well our parental workshop went and the fabulous learning and foods that we created together.  Don’t worry if you couldn’t get along to this one, please look out for further information about upcoming workshops.

Tesco Community Grant Award

We are absolutely delighted to let you all know that we have come second in the Tesco Community Grants Awards! We are over the moon to be winning a massive £1000.00 to go towards developing our greenspace area. So, we just want to give a big thanks to anyone who took the time on their visit to Tesco store Auchinleck to post the little blue tokens. We will make sure and share our developments and fantastic new resources with you. Thanks again.

 

Festive Stay and Play 2022

Please click on the link below to see just some of the photographs from our festive stay and play today, enjoy.

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Lending Library

Over the last few days your child has came home with a book along with a feedback form. This is the start of our lending library home link which will be happening for a block of 4 weeks.

Every Monday your child will choose a book that interests them to bring home in their folder with a new feedback sheet. We would request that you return the book and the filled in feedback sheet on a Friday. If there are any problems please let us know 😊

HAPPY READING!

 

Info for all children, new and returning

Not long now 🙂

We are super excited to be welcoming all of our eligible August starts back into the ECC on Thursday 18th of this week.

All children due to start on Thursday were notified in June with start times, settling in periods and keyworker groups.

At this point we would ask you to take a few minutes to complete a permission form for your child starting. This can be completed by parent/carers of ALL children regardless of their start date ensuring that all permissions have been given/denied ready for them starting. 

Please click on the link to get to the FORMS slip.

https://forms.office.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=oyzTzM4Wj0KVQTctawUZKRqhoaEMY8FHkTJQGETc2XZUNE5OTklKWFFFMTRCV1JHQ05USFhBQTRYUy4u

Thank you in advance for your time and we can’t wait to see you all again soon.

Kind regards

Alana Speirs

Depute Manager

Catrine ECC 

alana.speirs@eastayrshire.org.uk

 

Our new pets have settled in well :)


On Wednesday the children got to meet our newest arrivals, two beautiful Guinea pigs called Poppet and Sandy. Even although their excitement was through the roof, they sat well at the side of their cage to look at them. The children were all learning the rules on how to behave and be responsible around them. We spoke about how to care for them, what they eat and drink and how to keep them healthy and safe. The children know to use quiet voices around them, not to stick their fingers through the cage or to post toys into their cage.
Here’s to a long and happy relationship between the children and our new pets, and lots of new found responsibilities.

Poppet and Sandy, we love you already 🙂

Health Week 2022

Well, what a week we have had at Catrine ECC.  It has been fantastic being able to invite lots of professionals back into the centre again after so long and the children have enjoyed every moment of it.  Have a look at the Sway below to see what we have been experiencing.

We could not have done this without the generous help of the professionals who kindly donated their spare time this week.  Thanks to everyone (including all of our Zumba parents on Thursday).

Enjoy, and have a lovely weekend

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ECC Trip Video :)

Once again we would like to take this opportunity to thank all of our parent/carers for their enthusiasm and willingness to participate and generally just have an amazing day with us on Friday.

I think you will all agree our children did us proud while we were visiting the park.

Please follow the link below to a wee video of our day 🙂

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*Please note we do not own the rights to the music used in the video clip.

New additions to Catrine ECC

We are super excited to introduce 2 very special new members to Team Catrine, who will be joining us this week 🙂

A very good friend was looking to rehome 2 Guinea Pigs and we were delighted to offer our support and care.

Part of our improvement plan for next year is to work towards further developing our nurture principles. With this in mind we had been looking into welcoming small animals into the setting to help support children’s mental health and wellbeing as well as to teach them real life skills in caring for animals.

The children will be responsible for helping to clean out POPPET and SANDY’s cage as well as ensuring they have food and water. They have come from a home with 2 young children and are used to being handled.

At holiday times they will join our own families, starting with Alana and then Michelle during the summer holidays.

Full risk assessments will be in place as always.

If anyone wishes their child NOT TO BE involved in experiences with Poppet and Sandy please OPT OUT by sending an email to alana.speirs@eastayrshire.org.uk

 

Health Week

This upcoming week we will be enjoying taking part in a health week within the Centre.   We have many fabulous experiences planned that aim to cover the areas within the health and wellbeing framework.  Lots of professionals will be visiting to share their area of expertise in sports and safety.  We are looking forward to practising skills such as football, dancing and so much more.  An area I will be focusing on will be how to keep ourselves safe with a little help from Pantosaurus.

Have a look at the sway below to meet or say “Hi again” to Pantosaurus, our prehistoric friend who has a fun way to explore how we can keep ourselves safe in our early years.  I hope you enjoy the attached videos and links and if you still feel that you need some information or support please contact the ECC or send us an email.   I, (Lesleyanne), am the Health and Wellbeing Champion here at Catrine. Relationships, Sexual Health and Partnerships (RSHP) fall under this category and therefore I will be more than happy to support in anyway that I can

ealesley-anne.adams@glow.sch.uk

I aim to introduce the children to Pantosaurus at the start of the week. We have been exploring lifecycles within the centre where we have been looking in particular at how a tadpole changes and transforms, with our very own tadpole tank.

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