Category: HOME LINK ACTIVITIES

Following on from your challenge yesterday about what plants need to grow, we wanted to tell you all about what parts of a plant are called.

Sit with an adult or an older brother or sister and ask them to read through the pictures below and then complete the task at the end.

Discuss what you have learned from the pictures and talk about the plants and flowers around your house – colour, shape, height, smell etc.

Now either using your beanstalk from yesterday or by drawing a new flower, can you copy the words from the diagram below, cut them out with the help of an adult and stick them beside the correct part of your plant?

Don’t forget to post in your work 🙂

alana.speirs@east-ayrshire.gov.uk

10am       Outdoor Learning Post

We hope you have fun with these ideas, spend time together and simply chat. Please be mindful of social distancing and be aware of others around you at this time. We would love to see or hear how your child got on with the activity by uploading picture / photos to our email.

alana.speirs@east-ayrshire.gov.uk

Remember if you have older / younger siblings within your family then they can be involved too. We look forward to seeing all of your pictures

Let’s support our local community by staying at home and getting creative.

(Facebook   —   Catrine Show.)

To enter – scroll down to the class post and upload a photo of your entry in the comments section.

Class 4  Children’s Art Competition

Ask your child what is their favourite animal they would like to see on a farm, look it up on google, talk about the animal, colour,height, size, then let your child draw or paint their animal.

Class 5       Best Dressed Animal

What can we dress our pets up as?  write down your children’s ideas , get them to do a drawing of their dressed up animal and share with the ECC. Support your child as they dress up their pet, let them take the picture, have fun together.

I’m looking forward to seeing, all your fantastic pictures and photos

Remember to post your entry to the Catrine Show’s facebook page and also share your pictures or photos with our email too :-

alana.speirs@east-ayrshire.gov.uk

You could even add your picture to your window displays, for people to see while they are out on their daily walks.

Remember entries have to be submitted by 11am on Saturday 2nd May, at the latest, via  Catrine Show    (Facebook page- scroll down to class post and upload your entry .)

Good Luck everyone.

Happy Friday everyone! I hope you have settled back into home learning after your Easter break 🙂

Challenge: To make a picture of a face out of fruit, vegetables or your favourite food.

This challenge will also give you the opportunity, along with support from your adults, to cut the food into pieces and sizes of your choice to make your picture or face.

I have attached a few examples to give you an idea, however, be as imaginative as possible!

I hope you and your adults have great fun doing this challenge and remember to send your completed pictures and/or videos to alana.speirs@east-ayrshire.gov.uk

I can’t wait to see all your creative and imaginative ideas 🙂

P.S – next week we are going to be making and cooking our own pizzas! You can either get ingredients to make your own dough, which is easily found online or get the ready made dough!

•  2pm  Outdoor Learning Post

We hope you have fun with these ideas, spend time together and simply chat. Please be mindful of social distancing and be aware of others around you at this time. We would love to see or hear how your child got on with the activity by uploading picture / photos to our email.

alana.speirs@east-ayrshire.gov.uk

Remember if you have older / younger siblings within your family then they can be involved too. We look forward to seeing all of your pictures.

Let’s support our local community by staying at home and getting creative.

(Facebook   —   Catrine Show.)

To enter – scroll down to the class post and upload a photo of your entry in the comments section.

You can use any resource, let your imagination run wild and enjoy being creative. Remember to post your entry to the Catrine Show’s facebook page and also share your pictures with our email    alana.speirs@east-ayrshire.gov.uk

Class 2  Decorated Cocktail Glass

Class 3   Owner & Animal Selfie

I’m looking forward to seeing all your fantastic creations and animal selfie’s.

You could even add your creation to your window displays, for people to see while they are out on their daily walks…… Have fun and lots of laughs while taking your animal selfie……

If you missed class 1  it was :-       

Good morning everyone, I hope yous have all been enjoying the weather the past few days! I’ve personally had great fun weeding the garden!
With the sun coming out again today, let’s get outdoors and enjoy some water play!

There are various options for carrying out our literacy challenge today! These are as follows:

1. Chalk up a variety of lower-case letters onto your fence/path and provide your child with a hose/water gun/spray bottle. Say the letters sound (not the letter names) and let them take aim and wash the letter away. If they wash away the wrong letter, simply let them know what one it was they washed away- “Oh that was the ‘pi’ you washed away, could we try find the ‘gi’ now?”
2. If you don’t have any chalk at hand, wet a paint brush and encourage your child to write their name and other familiar words on the ground or simply just mark make.
3. Write your child’s name with chalk and as they wash away the letters say those letters to your child to encourage their understanding of the letters in their name- and of course you can include any other familiar words!
4. As an extra fun additional activity, you could chalk a fire on to a garden shed/wall/fence and let your child role play as a firefighter!

Most importantly- have fun, stay safe in the sun and remember to forward any pictures on to Alana!

Easter Holiday Post

We hope you have fun with these ideas, spend time together and simply chat. Please be mindful of social distancing and be aware of others around you at this time. We would love to see or hear how your child got on with the activity by uploading picture / photos to our email.

alana.speirs@east-ayrshire.gov.uk

Remember if you have older / younger siblings within your family then they can be involved too. We look forward to seeing all of your pictures J

Let’s support our local community by staying at home and getting creative.

(Facebook   —   Catrine Show.)

To enter – scroll down to the class post and upload a photo of your entry in the comments section.

Class 1                 Children’s model animal, any resource can be used:-

These are just a few ideas to get your creativity started

You can use any resource, let your imagination run wild and enjoy being creative. Remember to post your entry to the Catrine Show’s facebook page and also share your pictures with our email    alana.speirs@east-ayrshire.gov.uk

I’m looking forward to seeing all your fantastic creations.

You could even add your creation to your window displays, for people to see while they are out on their daily walks………………. We are going on an animal hunt, what can we see ??????????

Good morning everyone. Hope you’ve had a great weekend. The weather’s been lovely. Here’s something messy yous could try. Can you make an Easter chick or bunny rabbit using your hand or foot prints? You could use paint or draw around them. Here are the ones we created. Have fun and stay safe.

Happy Easter Weekend everyone!

Today, our holiday fun activity is going to be something that will help to spread cheer and joy to our families, friends and neighbours :-). It is an easy and fun activity to do and you don’t need many resources to participate, so why not get the whole family involved?

We are going to be making our very own Easter cards or pictures, that we can display around our local village or deliver to our family, friends and neighbours to put a smile on their face :-)! You can use any kind of resources that you like such as pens, pencils, paper templates, paint, chalk, anything you like! If you have not got paint at home but would like to use paint here is a link that shows you how to make your very own homemade paint that works a treat:- https://www.wikihow.com/Make-Your-Own-Paint

I have attached a few pictures I found on Pinterest if you need any ideas of what to put on your card/picture and my little brother also made an Easter card that he is going to deliver to his nephew as he misses him so much!

Stay safe everyone, have fun and enjoy your Easter weekend 🙂

Hello everyone! It is Friday at last!

Today we are going to make our very own lunch boxes! I have attached a copy of an empty lunchbox, if you wish to print it out but it is not essential, we can draw our own!

All you need to do is ask your child to draw what they would pack in their lunchbox if they were going to go on a picnic or out on a day out. You can label this for your child as well.

ADD ON!! – Why not ask your child to help you make up a pack lunch for them that they can have to eat in their room or even make a fort that you can both have lunch in! Enjoy.

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.

I Spy

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.

Checklist

Have fun 🙂

Keep your work coming in everybody. It’s lovely to see you all.

The staff are missing you loads.

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

Outdoor Challenge 10 am   (Teddy Bears picnic)

As part of our drive to promote and develop our children’s communication skills we have decided to set a few outdoor activities that you and your child can do together.

We hope you have fun with these ideas, spend time together and simply chat. Please be mindful of social distancing and be aware of others around you at this time.

We would love to see or hear how your child got on with the challenge either through discussions whilst attending the ECC or through uploading picture / photos to our email.        alana.speirs@east-ayrshire.gov.uk

Remember if you have older / younger siblings within your family then they can be involved too.

We look forward to seeing all of your pictures

Have a Teddy bears picnic.

(Buzz Lightyear, Woody, My little pony etc.)

Can you now draw your Teddy bears picnic, or get a grownup to take a picture of you and your picnic in full swing. 🍱

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

Good morning everyone!

Today our home link focus is food and health and the activity I have planned for you all to do is based on healthy and unhealthy foods.

1. Sit down with your child, grab a pen/pencil with some paper and ask them what they think health and unhealthy means.
2. Once you have discussed what you think healthy and unhealthy means, ask your child to go through into your kitchen in the fridge/cupboards and find 3 things that are healthy and 3 which are unhealthy.

Remember you can send pictures into Alana of you and your child completing the activity, so why not make two signs, one for healthy and one for unhealthy. Then organise the foods you and your child have found and place them in front of the correct sign. You can take a picture and send it in showing us your knowledge!

I hope both you and your child have a great time exploring healthy and unhealthy foods.

P.S- next week you will need some paper, drawing pens and pencils as we will be making our own lunchboxes!

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 🙂

Daily timetable 5

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.