Catrine Early Childhood Centre
An East Ayrshire Council site
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.
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
A little treat for all of you – Let’s go hunting! Let’s try and find these items on the attached page in your home or garden.
I’d love to see drawings or photos of the items you have found.
Good Luck
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
Please click on the link below to have a look at some top tips for parents from Barnardos ♥
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 !
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.
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!!!!!!!!!
SECRET MISSION ALERT – Ssssshhhhhh
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 
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 🙂
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. 🙂
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 🙂
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 
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?
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)
Good morning 🙂
I’ve received lots of lovely comments/emails from people in the village about the smashing rainbow pictures in your windows – they’re certainly doing their job of cheering people up so well done.
Today’s challenge is a bit more practical – learn how to make your bed!
This is a job that you should be helping out with every day – whatever your age – as it’s helping your family during these strange times.
So ask someone at home to give you a shout when they’re making the beds in the morning, and I’m sure your help will be much appreciated (and if you tidy up your room a wee bit at the same time, that would be brilliant!)
Your ECC teachers are posting activities on GLOW every day at 10.00am and 2.00pm and I hope you’re enjoying the wide variety of tasks that they’re organising for you.
Remember that you don’t have to do every task – if you’re doing other online activities that’s great and it’s even better if you’re having fun with your family in your garden, or reading books, or building Lego or skiddling with water and bubbles – a million different ways you could be learning.
Take care, keep in touch and look after each other.
Mrs Govans 
