Catrine Early Childhood Centre

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 🙂

Good morning to another glorious Thursday morning 🙂

The ECC staff are all loving their phone calls to the children that they’ve made so far – they’re so pleased to hear about your lockdown adventures and stories.  If your keyworker hasn’t phoned you yet – don’t worry!  They’ll be phoning over the next few days and possibly into next week as they’re blethering so much that the phone calls are taking much longer than anticipated!

Back in April I gave you a Food Tasting Challenge, and I received so many brilliant success stories about foods that you now like that I’m challenging you again – but with a twist.

Today’s Challenge is a Fruit/Vegetable Food Challenge. 

My oldest son has discovered that he now likes strawberries … after years of being offered strawberries and turning his nose up at them, they are now his most favourite food in the world!

There are so many delicious fruits and vegetables in the shops right now that I challenge you to try 3 new food items that you’ve always thought you never liked, or just haven’t tasted before.  Remember to let me know if you find a new favourite fruit or vegetable. I’m going to try pineapple, grapefruit and courgettes – I’ll let you know how I get on …

Tuesday’s Tower Challenge was a big hit – I’ve received so many brilliant photos of the most creative towers.  Well done to everyone who completed the challenge, including Oscar who had suitcases, pots and pans in his tower!

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

Judith.govans@east-ayrshire.gov.uk

“Well Done Lewis, you have been working really hard to achieve this.” – Achieving Andy

Good Morning Everyone,

So far this year we have had Safe Suzie, Healthy Hannah and Achieving Andy as our superhero characters supporting us on our quest through all aspects of Health and Well-being using the SHANARRI indicators .  The children have designed these characters and named them all on their own.  Today’s task is to design a character to support us while exploring Active and what this means to us.  The pictures below are just examples, I would love to see the children draw their own superhero and name them using the letter A.  It would be great to see what the children come up with and their creations can be emailed to myself at ealesley-anne.adams@glow.sch.uk and we will vote for who we think should be our Active Superhero!  Have fun, I can’t wait to see your creations ♥

               

 

“Well Done Abi, you have been working really hard to achieve this.” – Achieving Andy ♥

Good morning Tuesday 🙂

I hope you all enjoyed a lovely relaxing long weekend with your family.  I went a HUGE walk with my husband, sons and dogs and my legs are still aching …

Thanks to everyone who took part in the Animal Quiz – I’d love to hear who the winner was in your family. 

I was tidying out my youngest son’s bedroom (AGAIN!) at the weekend and I asked him to tidy up his book shelf.  He proceeded to build a huge tower of books on the floor, and then added other items to the books to see if he could make the tower taller than himself – he did manage and then he had an even bigger mess to tidy up once he knocked the tower of books, Top Trumps cards and PS4 games over!

So today’s challenge is a Construction one – try to build a tower that is taller than yourself BUT you can’t use all the same objects!  For instance, you can’t just build a tower from Lego/Jenga blocks/storage boxes … that would be too easy.  You can only use three of the same items so you’ll need to get VERY creative and think about a wide range of items that you could use to build your tower that will safely stack on top of each other.  The taller you are – the harder the challenge!  I look forward to seeing the photographic evidence that you completed the challenge…

Keep telling us about your achievements during this time away from the ECC – Achieving Andy loves to hear what you’ve been up to!

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

Judith.govans@east-ayrshire.gov.uk

Good work April writing everyone’s name and what a fantastic rainbow you drew.

Well done to everyone who participated in the Animal Quiz.  Check your answers against the list below and let me know who was the winner in your house.  No cheating!

1. What’s the fastest land animal? A CHEETAH
2. How many lives is a cat said to have? NINE
3. What do you call a baby kangaroo? A JOEY
4. What do you call a group of sheep? A HERD/FLOCK (both are acceptable)
5. How many legs does a spider have? EIGHT
6. What’s the tallest animal in the world? A GIRAFFE
7. What kind of animal is Shere Khan in ‘The Jungle Book’? A TIGER
8. How many horns did a triceratops have? THREE
9. Nala and Simba are what kind of animal? LIONS
10. What type of dog is Marshall from ‘Paw Patrol’? A DALMATION

Wishing you all a lovely long weekend with your family 🙂

Mrs Govans x  

Are you all listening?

Now boys and girls, have you got your listening ears switched on?

I need you to listen carefully to these sounds and shout out what you think they are – some are a bit tricky.

Listening Game – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yT8u1ge58jc

Listen to these sounds – can you guess what they are? How many did you get correct?

Next time you are out for a walk or in your garden can you listen out for some more sounds – what type of things can you hear?

Good morning Thursday 🙂 (although I’m cheating a wee bit by posting this on Wednesday night as I’m working in the hub today).

I’ve loved reading through the certificates for all of your achievements at home – keep your successes and photos coming in as we loving seeing what you’ve been up to at home.

Today’s challenge is … an Animal Quiz.  There’s 10 questions so you can either answer the questions individually, with one person being the quizmaster or split your family into teams.  I’ll post the answers on Friday afternoon so that you can see who the winners are.  Good luck!

Animal questions

1. What’s the fastest land animal?

2. How many lives is a cat said to have?

3. What do you call a baby kangaroo?

4. What do you call a group of sheep?

5. How many legs does a spider have?

6. What’s the tallest animal in the world?

7. What kind of animal is Shere Khan in ‘The Jungle Book’?

8. How many horns did a triceratops have?

9. Nala and Simba are what kind of animal?

10. What type of dog is Marshall from ‘Paw Patrol’?

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

Judith.govans@east-ayrshire.gov.uk

 

“It’s great to see what everyone is achieving from home”, Achieving Andy. ♥ 

 

Lolly stick planes

What you will need: 1 wooden peg, pens, 3 ice lolly sticks, elastic bands or glue and scissors.

Instructions

• Colour your wooden peg and lolly sticks.
• Glue or use your elastic band to stick or hold one lolly sick on the top of your peg and one on the bottom of your peg.
• Use the scissors to cut the last lolly stick to make a short tail for your plane then glue it onto the peg.

Have you ever been on a plane?  Where did the plane take you?

Can you name any parts of a plane before watching the video?

Here is a video about the different parts of a plane and how they work.

Can you think of anything else that can fly ? 

Have fun !