Author: Mrs Nohar

Our SWAY below shows just some of the highlights from this week.

Fortnightly Overview – 28/02 to 18/03

In the Garden Room we have been learning about the different sizes of animals. We have been using the promethean board to find out lots of interesting facts e.g their height and weight. The…

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Here is January’s top tip from the Speech and Language Team, that is promoting the reading of books.

 

 

Last week the children participated in Maths Week Scotland.

Please click on the link below to see some of our photos.

This week in the ECC the children have been involved in a number (pardon the pun) of maths and numeracy experiences to celebrate Maths Week Scotland. At every opportunity and in all areas, …

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Celebrating achievement is important to us here at the ECC.  When we celebrate children’s achievements we are developing their confidence and sense of belonging.  We have created our new ‘wow wall’ and are looking forward to filling it with lots of achievements not just from inside the centre but also with what we are achieving at home.  Please help us fill our new display by sharing your children’s achievements on our wow moment sheets that they will be bringing home.

   

The wow moment sheets can be children’s quotes, mark-making or even photographs.  We love seeing the children’s own work and this makes their achievements more meaningful.  Soon all parents and carers will have access to their child’s learning journal where their learning and development is recorded digitally and sharing photographs of home achievements will become easier.  Therefore children’s own drawings and markings is an effective way of sharing achievements using our paper wow moments as we appreciate not everyone has access to a printer to produce photographs.

Remember an achievement could be anything from sleeping in own bed all night, eating vegetables at tea time or learning to ride a bike.  However big or small your child’s achievement is, we would love to hear all about it.  Hope everyone has a lovely weekend 🌈

As it is a special day this Sunday called Valentine’s Day, I thought we could do fun activities. Below I have added a recipe for you all to try – some yummy chocolate strawberries. Why don’t you make them and give them to the one you love this Valentine’s Day?

Prep time: 10 minutes

cook time: 3 minutes

total time: 13 minutes

Ingredients:

Strawberries

melted chocolate of your choice

some of your favourite Valentine’s sprinkles

Lets start by washing our hands. Now we will wash our strawberries. Cut your strawberries into a heart shape, remember to ask an adult for help. Dip your heart shaped strawberries into the melted chocolate and top with the sprinkles you have chosen. Enjoy! Can’t wait to see your pictures!

Valentine’s Day makes me think about the ones I love – I love my family very much and when I tell them, it makes them feel happy inside. Can you tell me who you love and why you love them? Why don’t you send me a picture with your answers like the one I’ve done below.

julie.nohar@eastayrshire.org.uk

 

Curricular areas:

Health and well-being : encouraging hand washing, safety when using a sharp object. Speaking about our feelings

Maths: counting out the strawberries we have and discussing how long the treats will take to be ready.

Literacy: using descriptive language to talk about the textures of the strawberries and the chocolate.

Hi everyone I hope you are all enjoying the fun posts that we have been putting up for you.

Today we are going to focus on identifying and understanding the initial sounds of words.

Below are a few fun ideas to try.

The first challenge is to go on a scavenger hunt to find a variety of different objects and items.

Next, encourage your child to name the object and attempt to identify the initial sound e.g a doll starts with a “d”. To challenge your child you can ask them to think of another word starting with the sound and draw a picture starting with the same sound e.g draw a dog.

 

How many things can you find around your house starting with the first sound of your name?

Here is what I managed to find …….

Jj for Julie –           jug          jam          jar         jellyfish

Can you send me a photo of what you found using the first letter of your name?

 

Here is a fun video to get you moving & singing.

Curricular Areas

Literacy – explore and play with the patterns and sounds of words, discovering how they work together, listening, speech sounds, pencil control and letter formation when drawing. 

Health & Wellbeing – moving your body physically during video while learning about letters.

Any pictures you have could you please send them to my email address stated below thanks.

julie.nohar@eastayrshire.gov.uk

 

Following Rena’s post from yesterday about bedtime routines, I am going to talk about what happens before going to bed.

Before bedtime your mum or dad will give you a time and this is when you start to get ready for bed.

Once it gets to this time you will be asked to brush your teeth and put on your pyjamas.

When in bed your mum or dad might read you a nice relaxing story.

As a nice wee treat tonight I have recorded my own wee story for you all to enjoy – so at bedtime, sit back, relax and have a wee cuddle while you listen to one of my favourite stories.

 

In the morning as a wee extension, can you draw me a picture of your favourite animal from the story along with some twinkling stars and count how many stars you have in your picture.

Please send in any pictures to my email address : julie.nohar@eastayrshire.org.uk

 

Sweet dreams everyone 🙂

 

Curriculum areas covered:

Communication/Literacy: listening and asking questions, pencil control and mark making.

Numeracy: discussing the time on the clock, getting the child to recognise the number.

Health and Wellbeing: hygiene brushing teeth before bed.

Good morning everyone, I hope you all enjoyed your Christmas break, unfortunately it is longer than intended.  Until we can welcome you back into the centre we all need to do what we can to stay safe.

Today I am going to be making some delicious vegetable soup for my family and would love it if you could join me in this task.

Firstly we need to make sure we have all the ingredients we need.  Let’s get our adult to help us out here.  If you don’t have all the ingredients maybe your adult could take you to the shop to get these or make some soup of your choice with the ingredients you have in your house.

Let’s wash our hands and prepare our vegetables, remembering to get our adults help when cutting and peeling.  Can you count how many carrots you have? what about your potatoes?

While you are waiting on your soup getting ready why don’t you ask your adult to help you find out where all your vegetables come from.

Parents/carers – you can encourage your child by searching the internet to find out what countries these ingredients come from and also how they are grown.

Remember to send me some pictures of your hard work and yummy soup

Curricular areas covered

• Literacy – following a recipe, new vocabulary such as “ingredients, measure, equipment”
• Maths and Numeracy – measuring, counting, weight
• Health & Wellbeing – healthy foods, where vegetables come from, food preparation, personal hygiene.

Please forward any pictures to Julie.nohar@eastayrshire.org.uk

If you have any concerns regarding your child’s speech and Language development, East Ayrshire’s speech and language therapy team will be available offering virtual drop ins for parents and carers.

Please read the information below

Ayrshire Speech and Language are now providing online drop in sessions for anyone with any concerns regarding their child’s speech development alongside their helpline service available Monday 9:30am-11:30am and Thursday 2-4pm on 07980919654. To arrange a virtual drop in session, text 07812519298.