Signing off for the Easter Holidays

It’s officially the Easter holidays now and, although we won’t be gallivanting anywhere apart from the back garden it’s still a time to switch off from school work and enjoy quality time with our families in the (hopefully!) lovely Spring sunshine.

Staff won’t be posting activities over the next two weeks but I will still be posting my Headteacher’s Challenges on Tuesday and Thursday so remember to check in …

I’d like to thank every member of staff at both Catrine ECC and PS for their commitment, professionalism and positivity during the last three weeks.  Every member of staff is working behind the scenes to keep our ECC and school functioning and to ensure our young people are accessing appropriate, enjoyable and fun learning activities.

Thank you also to the parents, carers, families and friends of both Catrine ECC and PS #homeschoolarmy – what a wonderfully creative lot you are!  Some brilliant ideas coming through GLOW and emails about the home learning activities you’re enjoying with your family – well done to all.

And last, but by no means least, the children of Catrine 🙂

Let’s applaud them – ‘these wee heroes have stayed indoors more than they’ve ever known in their lives.  Their whole wee worlds have been turned upside down, full of rules they’ve never known. Every day they get up and carry on, despite all that’s going on around them, and they’re delighted to paint pretty rainbows and pictures to thank the ‘heroes’ out in the world working hard to keep us all safe.

So let’s acknowledge our wee heroes – our children, our groups, our pupils, our future – today, tomorrow and forever.  We are so proud of you all.’

Words copied from Twitter but I mean every single one of them.

As always, take care, stay safe and keep in touch.

Mrs Govans x   

10am Numeracy Challenge (take 2)

Sorry for the delay, I had a little problem with Glow this morning.

10 am        Numeracy Challenge

Can you find items that are Red?

Are they all the same size? Could you measure them with a ruler, a tape measure or even building bricks or Lego?  Count up the numbers and write them down beside each item that you have found.

Looking forward to seeing some of your fantastic work, have fun everyone.

Friday 3rd April – ECC planner

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.

Daily timetable 10

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

 

Headteacher’s Challenge #4

Good morning to Thursday 🙂

It’s hard to believe we’re nearly at the end of the second week of this new way of learning, and the smashing ideas that you’re all coming up with continue to impress us all.  We love seeing the photos of your daily activities so keep them coming!

Today would have been the last day of Term 3, and at the Primary School we always sing a certain song at our Easter Service.  Some of you may already know it – your big brothers and sisters at the PS certainly do!

So today’s challenge is to sing the Spring Chicken Song with your family – very loudly and with loads of actions!  It’s an easy song to learn and I bet your family will be singing it all day after hearing it!

As always stay safe, take care and keep in touch.

Mrs Govans x

2 PM STEM

Today I have an experiment to see if you can grow your own rainbow. 

Items you will need: a piece of kitchen roll , felt tip pens, 2 bowls, water, scissors, paper clip (we used a hair kirby because I didn’t have a paper clip) and a piece of thread (we used ribbon).

Here are the steps to grow your own rainbow:

1 Encourage your child to use scissors to cut a rainbow shape out of the piece of kitchen roll. If you need to, draw the shape of the rainbow on the kitchen roll first so your child can follow the line while cutting. Remind your child that scissors are sharp and they need to be careful when using them. Adults supervise or help if needed.

2 Use your pens to colour a rainbow about 2cm up on both ends. Then attach your paper clip (kirby) to the top of your rainbow and attach a piece of thread(ribbon). Put water in each bowl (half fill).

3 Hold your rainbow using the thread(ribbon) allow the ends of your rainbow to touch the water.

Your rainbow should start to grow!

While doing the experiment you could discuss:

What colours are in a rainbow?

In what kind of weather would you see a rainbow ?

Where would you find a rainbow?

Have fun !

10 AM Post; 7 Min HIIT Workout

Good Morning everyone,  I hope you are all keeping well and feeling optimistic.  The best way to keep us feeling positive and energized at this worrying time is exercise!  We have enjoyed taking part in Joe Wicks PE session each day on You Tube, you can live stream the session each morning or access the previous days sessions at any time of the day.  I have made a 7 Minute HIIT Workout you can have some fun with, please give it a little go .  Any videos or pictures would be lovely to see, have a good day! 

Just press on link below.  We have 7 different exercises,  1 minute each exercise, give it your all!…Ready, Steady, GO!!!!!!!!!

Kids 7 minute HIIT workout

Headteacher’s Challenge #3

Happy Tuesday!

I’m working at the Auchinleck Hub today and I’m enjoying looking at all their lovely displays and pupil work (and stealing a few ideas for when we’re all back at Catrine PS and ECC!)

Today’s challenge is another practical one, but a REALLY important one …

Learn to tie your shoelaces!

If you can already tie your shoelaces (and I know that some of our ECC boys and girls can) – relax, sit back and have a lazy day – you’ve completed my challenge already 🙂

If you can’t tie your shoelaces yet then this is a great time to learn with support from your family at home. Take it slowly and listen to the instructions given, and then just practise, practise and practise some more. It’ll be great if we can all tie our shoelaces by the time we return to the ECC and PS (and it’ll be much appreciated by all staff members!)

As always, take care, stay safe and keep in touch.

Mrs Govans   

Tuesday 31st March – ECC Daily routine suggestion

Daily timetable 7

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 🙂

2PM NUMERACY

This activity can be used in a variety of ways.

It can be a number recognition task – “Can you put a spiral on the number 5.”

It can be used to create amounts. – “Can you put 2 in the number 2.”

This activity is also great for exploring calculations. You can use the examples in the photo’s and/or create your own together.

I added mini tongs/tweezer’s to develop fine motor skills.

Great way to recycle your egg boxes too!!

Have fun. 🙂

10AM POST – EXPRESSIVE ARTS

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 🙂

Monday 30th March – ECC routine ideas :)

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 🙂

Daily timetable 6  

 

Thank you Helen, Graham and Janet

I’d like to personally thank our  PS Catering Supervisor, Helen Hall, and our Janitor, Graham Fullarton, for their brilliant teamwork this week in ensuring that our  primary school dinners were distributed throughout the village.

Thank also to Janet Fleming, our ECC Janitor, for her daily checks – making sure that our ECC stays safe and clean during these uncertain times.

Although school and ECC  staff sometimes joke that a school with no weans would be a great place – let me assure you, that is not the case.   We are missing their laughter, their stories, their tantrums and their wee personalities every single day.

So enjoy the weekend, switch off from the schoolwork, have fun with your family and take care (and remember to make your bed!)  See you Monday!

Mrs Govans x        

2PM NUMERACY POST

Easy peasy playdough. (Focusing on developing mathematical language.)

Ingredients – Plain flour,  salt, cream of tartar, oil, hot water & if you wish, food colouring or essesence. 

1 – 1 Cup of plain flour

2 – 1/2 cup of salt

3 – 2 Teaspoons  Cream of tartar (Mix all three ingredients together.)

4- 1 Tablespoons of oil (olive or vegetable oil.)

5 – ADULT add 1 cup of boiling water (add food colouring or scent if you wish, we used red colouring and orange essence.) Then mix and knead.

6 – Once ready and cool enough to play with you can create 5 currant buns, use stick/stones for candles to count,add shapes from puzzles, create amounts, long/short snakes etc.

Encourage mathematical vocabulary by asking –

Can you tell me when the cup is full?

Does the dough feel heavy or light?

How many spoonful’s do you think it will take to fill the cup?

Do we need to add more?

 

2pm – Days of the Week

It can be difficult being at home most of the time & the days can start to feel like they are merging together. Encourage you child to sing along to ‘Days of the week’ like we do in the nursery. You could also look at a calendar together and identify what date and month it is.

This is our days of the week song below  & my little girl singing along :

There’s Monday & there’s Tuesday

There’s Wednesday & there’s Thursday

There’s Friday & there’s Saturday

And then there’s Sunday

Days of the week (Clap Clap) x2

Days of the week, days of the week, days of the week (Clap Clap)

(The Addams Family Tune)

 

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