Catrine Early Childhood Centre

As promised here is a sneak preview of our Sports day Schedule for Friday 5th June. We, as individual families, plan to start off our races at home around 11am in an effort to try and make it feel like we are joining forces and racing together 🙂 Feel free to do the same along with us,  however if this time does not suit you, or you are working and actually would prefer to hold your Special Sports Day 2020 on a different day, then that’s fab too.

Remember your “race track”, however you choose to measure it, needs to be 50 metres long. This may well need to be from the top of your garden to the bottom 5 or 6 times or at a grassy area near to your house but please remember to adhere to social distancing rules at all times.

Look out any resources you might need ready and remember to simply adapt things to work that you can find around the house 🙂

We would LOVE to see your videos from this memorable day to share with other ECCs and to revisit upon our return after the summer with the children.

eamarion.smith@glow.sch.uk will be waiting eagerly on Friday for your times and distances to be sent into her by 2pm on Friday at the latest so that she can tally everything up . Results will be posted ASAP.

ROLL ON FRIDAY 🙂 🙂 🙂

It’s Wednesday and we are half way through the week already ! I hope everyone is still keeping a count of their steps/distance travelled to give to Active Apple Man and Leoni at the end of the week.

I thought today we would do something a little different and be active through the form of dance – my personal favourite Saturday night activity to stay fit and healthy 🙂

So simply set up your laptop or mobile on a surface your child can see it with plenty of space around them. (Another good trick we have discovered during lockdown is how easy it is to mirror things from your phone onto a SMART TV if you would like it on a bigger screen – no APPs required – google helped us within seconds.)

Work your way through these fun videos – don’t forget to take pictures or videos and send them to me at alana.speirs@east-ayrshire.gov.uk – we would love to see your moves.

This next one is a definite favourite in our house …….

A new one we tried yesterday ……

Cole (age 9 LOL) was having none of it by this point when we were practicing ………. 🙂 haha

This song is NEVER OFF in our house, may as well learn a dance to go with it, eh ……. ?

This one will be stuck in your head for the rest of the day )

And I’m afraid we can’t possibly do a dance blog without finishing with this one …….

Now that you have learned some new moves, do you think you could make up your own dance?

Happy Health Week everyone xxx

Exercise affects lots of different organs in our body. When we exercise we have to breathe faster to ensure our body has enough oxygen to move during exercise.

Here is a video about the respiratory system – it shows how our body takes more oxygen in to help us during exercise.

You could try and make your own respiratory system.

What you will need: Paper, 2 straws, 2 food bags, scissors, sellotape and glue.
Instructions: Draw a nose, a mouth and 2 lungs then cut them out.

Sellotape your 2 straws together (making sure the 2 bendy parts of the straws are at the bottom).
Put one bendy part of one straw into one food bag and wrap sellotape around it to ensure no air can escape. Do the same with the other bendy part of the straw with the other food bag.
Sellotape your nose near the top of your straws (leave enough room for your mouth to blow into the straws), your mouth underneath and then attach your lungs to the back of the straws where the food bags are.
Breathe in and out using the straws and watch the food bags inflate and deflate just like your lungs do when you breathe in and out.

The heart is another organ that has to work harder to help the body exercise. Before you start exercising hold your hand on the left side of your chest and try and feel your heart beat.

Now try this Zumba workout and at the end feel your heart beat again.

Active Apple Man wasn’t too happy that the song was about bananas and not apples ! However he said it was ok because the song helped everyone be active and bananas are a healthy fruit as well. Hope you enjoyed it and had fun.

Does your heart beat feel different ?

Is your heart beating faster or slower?

I’m sorry seem to be having some technical issues this morning, try this link after having listened to my story in post below to find Pantosaurus ♥

Good morning,

Today Active Apple Man has something very important for us to do.  The theme today will be all things PANTS as we talk about the PANTS rules.  To get us started I have a little story for us to listen to – hope you enjoy. ♥

I hope you enjoyed the story, it’s one of my favourites! Now we are going to meet Pantosaurus – some of the children are already aware of Pantosaurus and the PANTS rules, and the thing that they love the most is the PANTS song. Parents beware it’s very catchy!

Parents you are now ready to discuss the PANTS rules with your child.

P- privates are private

A- always remember your body belongs to you

N- no means no

T- Talk about secrets that upset you

S- Speak up, someone can help

Within the ECC we talk about who we can trust, who could we talk to about our worries?

A little fun now, draw and decorate your own pair of pants any way you would like.  Have fun and any amazing designs can be sent to to me at;

ealesley-anne.adams@glow

more information is available at nspcc.org.uk

https://www.nspcc.org.uk/keeping-children-safe/support-for-parents/underwear-rule/

Have a great day everyone ♥

Good morning all! Today, I have a super ‘how many in a minute?’ challenge for yous all where yous will find out how many of each exercise yous can all do in one minute!

Firstly, lets remember that stretching is super important to avoid injury so lets start off with a few stretches that Active Apple Man does before any workout;

• First lets stretch up tall and touch our toes 10 times.
• Then lets sit on our bottoms, stretch our legs out wide and stretch forward 10 times.
• Then up we get and stand like a star and stretch over to one side for a count of 5 and then stretch over to our other side for a count of 5.
• Finally, lets jog on the spot for a count of 10 and then lets get going

Active Apple Man wanted to talk to us about 2 very important things today……

1. ORAL HEALTH

As well as being super active this week, it’s also a week to learn about and revisit what we need to do to keep ourselves healthy.  While we are in the ECC, a team called Childsmile usually come in and show us how to look after our teeth. They show us how to brush properly and why it’s important to do so. The link below is great for supporting tooth brushing from birth all the way through to age 12.

http://www.child-smile.org.uk/parents-and-carers/index.aspx

Although we are not in the ECC just now it’s still super important to keep brushing your teeth. In my house the challenge is always to make sure Cole and Halle brush for as long as they are supposed to! We use songs to help with this. Here is our favourite one at the minute ……

2. HAND WASHING

Hand washing is more important than ever just now. Rena has found a poster and another fab song you can sing at home to help you wash away your germs the best you can.

And this one I thought was just rather catchy 🙂

So remember everybody, to stay healthy we need to keep our bodies healthy too, so plenty of hand washing and remember to brush your teeth at least 2 times a day.

Good morning and Happy Health Week 🙂

Another glorious weekend in the sunshine – and what a great way to start our Health Week.  Staff in both the PS and ECC have great activities planned for you all every day and we look forward to hearing about your health adventures throughout the week.

Today’s challenge is another food one …

Try to think of a fruit or vegetable for every letter of your name. I’ve managed most of my name but I’m stuck on letter V!  Answers would be appreciated!

M – mushrooms

R – radishes

S – strawberries

G – grapes

O – oranges

V – ????

A – apples

N – nectarines

S – spring onion

You can’t use the same fruit or vegetable twice, and if you’ve got a short name try to do your surname too.  During last week’s food tasting challenge we discovered that Eli likes beetroot, and that I like grapefruit but not pineapple 🙁

Wishing you all a brilliant Health Week and looking forward to our Sports Day on Friday 5th June.  As always, stay safe, take care and keep in touch. 

Mrs Govans x

Judith.govans@east-ayrshire.gov.uk

Happy Monday Everyone!!

Today we are collecting real food or play food, hiding them around the house/garden for the children to find then decide whether they think the food is healthy or unhealthy.

It might be fun to design your own healthy and unhealthy signs together.

Can’t wait to see all your photos

Enjoy your day 🙂

Michelle

Good Morning

Can you name parts of the body? Get some paper or chalk outside and draw around someone in your family, and have fun naming and drawing all the body parts you know.

You could also go on an adventure and collect sticks, leaves, acorns, pine cones etc and be creative and make your own stick family.

Can you send me your pictures to eacarrie.hamilton@glow.sch.uk?

Do you know a song about parts of the body? Can you join in too?

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=h4eueDYPTIg

Thank you to everyone who sent in their super entries to find our next Health and Well-being character who is going to help us explore ACTIVE and what this means and how to achieve it 💪

In 3rd place we have the twins Active Ant and Angelica by Ashton, well done 👏🥉

In 2nd place we have the fabulous Active Abbie by Rebecca 👏🥈

And in 1st place, our winner is the SUPER ACTIVE Apple Man by Logan 🏆🥇

Thank you so much for your hard work and superb ideas 🤩

Make sure to look out for ACTIVE Apple Man this upcoming Health Week, lots of fun activities in store 😀

We need as much participation as possible next week. Lots of photos, videos, pictures, comments, memories and fun for all ages.

Catrine ECC’s Health Week Planner. Posts will be available in the morning each day and can be found on our GLOW page.

We will post our Sports Day Schedule later in the week to allow you to get prepared for the occasion.

Most resources can be found within your home or adapted with other resources similar, however you will need ……..

• to measure some distances so a tape measure would be helpful, and
• an app on your phone to track steps/distance – there are plenty of free ones.

Enjoy your week, from everyone at Catrine ECC xxx

Last week Eilidh was learning all about the parts of flowers and plants 🙂

Busy times in the Muir household

Another busy week for Logan’s house

Fun in the sun for Emily, and a huge big well done for learning to ride your bike! 🙂

Ashton’s bean update and his daily fitness class with his big sister 🙂

How about today since it is so lovely outdoors and you may have your pools out, we gave our toys a clean.  We could use our dolls, cars or trucks.  Pop them in a basin with some soapy water and a sponge, and leave them to dry in the sunshine afterwards.  Good way to cool down and good practice for doing the washing up 😁

Have fun everyone and enjoy your day.

Another fabulous entry tonight, well done Logan! this is great!

Active Apple man – number 3

To vote please leave below in comment box, thank you, lets keep this going♥

Thank you for the entries so far for our new Active Superhero challenge.  I thought it might be more fun to let everyone see the entries and vote from home on who they would like our new character to be.  So far we have had 2 fabulous creations from Rebecca and Ashton.  Well Done to both of you,these are fabulous!

Active Abbie

Twins- Active Angelica and Active Ant

I am going to number the entries;  Active Abbie number 1

Active Angelica and Active Ant number 2

You can vote by writing which number you would like to see as our new superhero by leaving a comment below and your vote, PLEASE keep your entries coming, I love seeing your creations!♥

Good morning everyone – I hope you are enjoying this lovely weather.

So, yesterday, I received the most beautiful bunch of flowers ever, and it got me thinking ……

…..flowers are so beautiful and can be used for so many lovely things. Remember making perfume out of petals, and potions in the garden with grass and dandelions? 🙂 Well … as well as those ideas, here are a few more you could try.

Using some double sided tape and a piece of cardboard/paper/cereal box create your child’s name. Go for a walk with your board and along the way collect flowers and grass, sticks and small leaves to stick on.  A fun way to learn some letters.

Another activity my two children love is adding loose parts to their play dough – Dandelion dough is fab and again so much fun to use little bits of nature around us to brighten it up.

But my ultimate favourite is this one below, and so much fun on hot days like today…..

Go for a walk and collect some flowers – the more colours the better and with a little help from an adult place them inside empty egg shells.

Fill them with water and carefully place them in the freezer for a few hours to solidify.

Once you peel the shell off the results are amazing 🙂

And super fun and educational to watch and handle as they melt.

Have a great day everybody 🙂