Catrine Early Childhood Centre
An East Ayrshire Council site
During the holidays Ashton entered a competition with Catrine Community Trust – and only went and won it. Huge congratulations from everyone at Catrine, staff and children !!!!
Happy Easter to you too Ashton, we are glad you had such a super time 🙂
Simple ……. no explanation needed, simply mail a hug to a loved one. Can you imagine their face when the post gets delivered, they open their envelope and they pull out your hug 🙂
I miss you when you’re far away,
I’d love to see you every day.
But since I can’t come over to play,
I’m mailing you a hug today!
So although it may be quite a sight 🙂
Wrap my arms around you tight.
Repeat this daily to keep your smile bright
Until we get to reunite!
Daily planner suggestion for Thursday 23rd April
It’s my favourite day ……. it’s challenge day
Click here to find out your daily challenge Daily Challenge
All pictures/videos please send into Alana.speirs@east-ayrshire.gov.uk
Click below to follow Tuesday’s planner ideas.
Don’t forget to keep your pictures coming in.
And we’re back ! We hope you all had a fabulous, family, fun filled Easter break. Here we go again …. please don’t forget to keep your pictures and videos coming in.
Great pictures everyone 🙂
It’s the last day before we should have been finishing up for the Easter holidays so see below for your last daily suggested planner from the ECC for a few weeks.
However ……. don’t worry, with Easter plans all cancelled and isolation still a requirement, we will still provide a programme of Easter activities for you to access if you choose to.
Have a great Easter and enjoy the time with your family.
Love from all at Catrine ECC xxx
One of our favourite games! Who doesn’t like a game of I Spy??? And what’s more, the educational benefits are tremendous! Initial sounds is a skill which can take a while to grasp with some children so it’s a great wee activity to do that’s easy no matter where you are.
Starting off it’s best to have items in front of your child that they can see
e.g. an apple
a car
a pencil
a ball
a doll
(you get the idea)
You then begin, “I spy with my little eye, something beginning with PI” (for P) remember to use the sounds that the letters make and not the letter names.
When your child begins to get the hang of 5 or 6 items on the table in front of them you could try this super tricky challenge sheet. And once they have mastered this they are ready to play anywhere.
Challenge – try turning it around to see if your child can take a turn, asking YOU if you can find things using their initial sound clues.
For some finding eye spy using initial sounds a little tricky – why not start with COLOUR I SPY. Again set up the same only with coloured items OR you can use the checklist below and it can be a look and find activity. You can use it to match, or to give clues, colour, shape, size, where you might find one, pattern etc. Lots of possibilities.
Have fun 🙂
Logan has been super busy! He has been helping to plant seeds – I wonder what they will turn into – we cannot wait to see how they change over time Logan. Keep us updated 🙂
Great job Poppy – developing her counting and writing skills.
Keep your work coming in everybody. It’s lovely to see you all.
The staff are missing you loads.
SECRET MISSION ALERT – Ssssshhhhhh
So my idea for today’s task came from my 4year old’s drawing yesterday.
There is so much change in our little one’s lives just now but in their eyes they are probably loving it. To them, for most, their house is just how they like it these days with parent(s)/carers having more time to play with them, fun home schooling activities going on for older siblings and thankfully the weather has been good to enjoy walks and out in the garden. Their house is their safe place.
Encourage your child to draw a picture of their house and who lives in it with them.
Capture moments like these when you can and hold onto the positives that come with the negatives.
The long red bit are our stairs, the squares are the cushions on our couches she tell me. Up the top is “Mum, dad, Cole and me all playing in my room.”
https://youtu.be/qAGbxKfNMuE #WEREMEMBER #POSITIVITY
Click above to find our Tuesday schedule idea and don’t forget to tune back in at
10AM to find out what Jan has in store for you
and again at
2PM to find out what I have up my sleeve.
Have a great day everyone 🙂
Good Morning everyone, here is a little video to keep you all entertained. Please join in if you can – if you have any favourites from our song box that you can remember, send me an email and we might sing them another time 🙂
Eacarrie.hamilton@glow.sch.uk
Have a lovely day 🙂
DAY 6 – Monday again ………
Children are you ready ???
Parent/carers are you ready ???
Let’s go then, you know what to do, follow the link below for a suggested planner and of course check back in at 10am and 2pm for Carrie and Michelle’s individual posts.
Don’t forget to keep the photographs and children’s work coming in 🙂
Just before I post more of the children’s fab work from this week I would like to say a huge thank you to everyone who has posted in and also to the parents who have taken the time to fill out our wee feedback form.
The comments were very helpful and thank you for the lovely comments that came through in them too with regards to the great job the staff are doing.
Have a great weekend – rest up parents – you have two days to recover 🙂
And please keep the pictures, videos and work coming in.
Ashton’s fabulous village and Abi’s stunning rainbow with a very beautiful matching top 🙂
Rebecca’s castle please click to view 🙂
Poppy and Flynn’s Days of the Week song
And we’ve made it …….. Happy Friday everyone!!!!!!
Follow the link below to find our last bank of daily suggestion tasks for the week and don’t miss our final mystery challenges for the day at 10am and 2pm 🙂
Can we also ask that you take a few moments to give us some feedback on our past week whilst most of you have been learning from home.
We want to help and support the best that we can during this time and so we are open to honest answers and we aim to use your feedback to make positive changes and improvements for next week.
Remember nothing that we post is required to be carried out, its simply ideas for families to dip in and out of if you are finding the days long.
Thank you for your continued support – from all at Catrine ECC.
