It’s now been a whole 42 days since we saw the majority of our children – and STILL not even met some of our wee newbies 🙁
The staff and children within the centre would love to hear from you all.
So, while some of us have been in the centre we have made a special Catrine ECC Post Box.
Your task for today is to help us to fill it.
We would love nothing more than for the children to :-
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make handmade cards
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write letters (scribe your child’s words for them or encourage them to copy some words if they are beginning to show an interest in letters)
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tell us their news (as above)
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draw us a picture of what they have been doing or who they are missing from the ECC
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post us a photograph, or
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anything else you can think of that will fit in our post box that can be shared with children and staff
….and to deliver them to the ECC. Our post box will be sitting outside our main entrance on dry days, and in our foyer area on wet days.
By giving your child a purpose to write can give them motivation and a better understanding of both our written and spoken language with it being put into context for them.
Encourage them as often as you can to make marks on paper, in sand, with shaving foam (recognisable or not – this does not matter).
Below you can see that each stage of mark making is as important as the next and part of a super special process each child will go through.
You can talk to your child while they mark make about a range of different things – long/short words, the initial letter in familiar names like the A in Alana and the M in Mum etc.
Whilst drawing encourage your child to add detail, eyes, hair, windows on houses etc. All of these little conversations stimulate so much learning and development – and remember, if it doesn’t quite look like a goat to you, it certainly does to them 🙂 so praise their fabulous drawing of a goat and give them a big hug for working so hard 🙂
We cannot wait to start receiving your post – and when we do, look out for some videos of us opening them up to read aloud to everyone 🙂
And just to give you all that Friday feeling, here is a great wee tune you can dance along to.
Can you copy the dancers cool moves?
More importantly ……. can your mum or dad?
Uploaded dance videos will be much appreciated for our GLOW posts while we wait for the surprises of your post to arrive 🙂
alana.speirs@eastayrshire.org.uk
Some curricular areas covered
Literacy – early writing skills, drawing, fine motor development, ability to discuss past experiences and share news with peers, quality conversations and interaction with adults
Expressive Arts – design and creativity making cards, expressing selves through drawings/art/craft, moving rhythmically through music and dance
Health & Wellbeing – understanding of job roles (the postman), fresh air and a relaxing walk to the post box, express their feelings appropriately about who or what they may be missing throughout lockdown.
