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Simple ……. no explanation needed, simply mail a hug to a loved one. Can you imagine their face when the post gets delivered, they open their envelope and they pull out your hug 🙂
I miss you when you’re far away,
I’d love to see you every day.
But since I can’t come over to play,
I’m mailing you a hug today!
So although it may be quite a sight 🙂
Wrap my arms around you tight.
Repeat this daily to keep your smile bright
Until we get to reunite!
Good morning and welcome to another glorious Thursday morning 🙂
It’s been lovely to hear from Alana that some of you have been sending her emails and photos to let her know what you’ve been up to. She shares them with me, and I really enjoy seeing how busy you’ve been.
Today’s challenge is another singing one. As the weather has been so lovely, lots of us have been spending time in the garden. I’ve enjoyed planting lots of bulbs (under the careful instruction of my mum via Facetime!)
So today we’re going to get your family singing The Seed Song. At the Primary School we sing this regularly at assembly so big brothers and sisters will know this song! Organise your family into two teams – the first team sings the first line, with the second team being the ‘echo’, and then both teams come together for the last line of each verse and the chorus. You can show off some dance moves during the instrumental section.
I’ve attached a wee video of the song and the words – I guarantee you’ll be whistling this tune all day!
As always, take care, stay safe and keep in touch. Mrs Govans x
Daily planner suggestion for Thursday 23rd April
I have also added a link below about the inspiring story of Captain Tom Moore a veteran of the second world war who is celebrating his 100th birthday this year. He done 100 laps of his garden and raised and astonishing 17 million pounds for the NHS. I thought it would be fun for us to try and do 100 laps of our own garden, you can walk, run or skip. Have fun and enjoy the lovely weather ♥
https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/52277760
With us all spending so much time around the house at the moment I thought that this would be the perfect opportunity for us to discuss dangers within the home. At the ECC we use the danger box to explore items we may find around the house that could be dangerous, we discuss why and what we should do if we come across them. The sheet below gives an idea on how to make a task that focuses on this, you could draw your own bags and put items in them you find in your home whether they are medicine or not and you could even talk about items such as hair straighteners, irons etc that could be dangerous. Hope everyone is keeping well ♥
Since the weather is lovely here is an activity you can do outside.
Can you make a magic potion ?
You will need a jar, bowl, bucket, empty bottle of any type of container to put your potion in.
Here’s some suggestions of what you could use to create your potion: water, washing up liquid, food colouring, shampoo, shower gel, shaving foam, glitter, paint, twigs, leaves or stones.
Encourage your child to unscrew lids, stir, pour/fill and squeeze to add items to their potions.
When creating your potions use of language such as full, empty, heavy and light. You could also count how many of each item you put into your potion such as 6 stones, one twig and 3 spoonful’s of glitter.
Encourage your child to use their imagination to talk about who makes magic potions? What will their magic potion do? They could explore role play and pretend to be a wizard or a magician.
My magic potion makes me invisible so I can read my favourite book, 5 minutes’ peace. 
I can’t wait to hear what your magic potions do.
(please ensure your child does not consume their potion)
It’s my favourite day ……. it’s challenge day
Click here to find out your daily challenge Daily Challenge
All pictures/videos please send into Alana.speirs@east-ayrshire.gov.uk
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 Tuesday 🙂
Welcome back to Term 4. It’s been lovely hearing about what you’ve been up to over the Easter holidays and, as usual, I’m very impressed with how creative you all are! I’ve been sent photos of brilliant dens, some delicious home baking treats and some beautifully decorated Wishlist Jars, full of ideas and adventures for when the lockdown is over.
Today’s challenge is … take time to play a board or card game with your family.
With a pack of cards you can play Snap, Gin Rummy, Pairs, Solitaire, Twist – I’m sure there are loads of card games that your family members can teach you that are suitable for all ages. You could maybe FaceTime your grandparents/family members and ask them to teach you a game that they know.
Board games – this could be a great time to learn to play Monopoly or Scrabble or any other games that you’ve got in your house. If this is a new game you’re learning take time to learn the rules and get everyone involved.
One rule – NO FALLING OUT! In my house, Monopoly usually ends up with a bit of an argument with someone accusing the Banker of stealing money … try not to let this happen 🙂
Have fun, get out in the sun to play, try to do some of the great activities that the ECC staff have organised for you on GLOW, stay safe, take care and keep in touch. Mrs Govans x
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:
Most importantly- have fun, stay safe in the sun and remember to forward any pictures on to Alana!
Click below to follow Tuesday’s planner ideas.
Don’t forget to keep your pictures coming in.
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Since the weather has been lovely. Can you make your own water wall? Collect empty bottles and carefully cut out a section of each. Get an adult to do the cutting. Attach the bottom bottle first and then keep attaching higher up the fence,ensuring each bottle is pouring into the one below.
Have fun on your new water wall!
Here is the one we made.
Good morning everyone, hope you all had a lovely time together over the Easter holidays.
This morning I have attached a document with lots of counting songs, I’m sure the children will know most of them, for the ones you are unsure of you can find them on YouTube for help with the words and tune. 😉
The children can use their fingers for counting with the songs or why not line up some teddies to join in on the fun.
Have a lovely day 🙂
And we’re back ! We hope you all had a fabulous, family, fun filled Easter break. Here we go again …. please don’t forget to keep your pictures and videos coming in.
Good Morning, hope everyone is enjoying this lovely weather we have been having this week. We have enjoyed playing in the garden and going walks down to the River Irvine to collect stones to paint and decorate. Then we have hidden them in various places in our town for others to find. Have a go for yourselves and see what you can find, How do the stones feel? Are they rough or are they smooth? Are they heavy? Do they have different colours or patterns on them?
Please be mindful of social distancing when out and about and I would love to see some of your stone creations, have fun ♥
Good morning and welcome to a beautiful Thursday 🙂
Alana and Lesleyanne have been phoning all of our parents/carers over the last couple of weeks and they’ve both enjoyed having a wee blether with all of our families – and even some of the children, which was just lovely. If you receive a call with ‘NO Caller ID’ – please answer as it might be Alana or Lesleyanne just phoning to have a wee check-in chat.
I’m planning to go on a bike run today with my boys – it’s been quite a while since I was last on a bike so wish me luck …
Today’s challenge is another practical one – it’s to learn a new skill in the kitchen. Every one is having to help out more around the house so it’s important that we take on new responsibilities, whatever our age.
Your new kitchen skill could be buttering your own toast, putting your milk in your cereal independently, making a drink of juice for your family, helping to wash the dishes, helping to fill or empty the dishwasher, washing the vegetables/fruit … the list is endless!
Safety first – talk through what your new responsibility in the kitchen could be with your family members, as they know what jobs are suitable for you. Let them show you how to do the job properly and help you out the first few times, and then it’s over to you.
I’m sure lots of you are already great helpers in the kitchen so this is a chance to be set a new challenge and try something different.
I’m off to enjoy my breakfast of scrambled eggs and toast – prepared for me by Charlie, aged 11 🙂
As always, take care, stay safe and keep in touch.
Mrs Govans x
Good morning and welcome to the second week of our Easter holidays. I hope you all had a lovely weekend, eating chocolate in the glorious sunshine.
Today’s challenge is based around Outdoor Learning. It’s called Big Art Outdoors – I’m challenging you to create a piece of art without using any typical art supplies like paints, colouring pens, pencils or chalk.
Instead, you’ve to use outdoor materials like stones, twigs, leaves, flowers, weeds – anything you can find in your garden – and use it to make a picture. You can be very creative and also use bits of string, cloth and wood to help make your masterpiece.
I know that you are very creative when you’re playing outside in the Green Space at the ECC so I hope you have great fun working together with your family to create artwork outdoors in the sunshine.
So, get everyone in your house involved and remember to keep posting your photos to show off your work!
As always, take care, stay safe and keep in touch.
Mrs Govans x
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 🙂
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