Headteacher’s Challenge #6

Good morning  and welcome to Thursday 🙂

The weather this week has been just gorgeous and I’ve enjoyed spending time out in the garden reading my book, and watching my husband work his way through the list of jobs I’ve helpfully written for him …  it’s all about the teamwork!

Today’s challenge is totally stolen from Miss McLean, who is our P2 teacher.  She encouraged her class to create a ‘Wishlist Jar’ and I’d like to borrow her idea and suggest that we all create our own version.

The idea is that when you think of an activity or event that you can’t do right now due to the restrictions in place, ask someone to write it down on a wee piece of paper and pop it into your Wishlist Jar.  Then, when we’re all back to normal go through your wishes and make them happen.

Your wishes can include – sleepovers with family or friends, picnics up the water, days at the beach, trips to the swimming pool, baking with your gran, going a walk with your papa, going to the pictures with your cousins … the list is endless.

So, find a jar or tub with a lid (I’ve washed out a beetroot jar) and then make a fancy label for it.  All of the people in your house can add their wishes and it’s something to look forward to.

Have a lovely Easter weekend, and, as always, stay safe, take care and keep in touch.

Mrs Govans x

A superb rainbow by Carter

Easter Holiday Post

Let’s spread some Easter joy and get creative!

How exciting and joyful is decorating your windows for Christmas? Well, let’s shake it up and get decorating our windows for Easter!

Encourage the kids to mark make and develop their snipping and cutting skills for their window displays then send in your photos for us to display on the blog!

-And remember if you’re using paints/pens directly on the window, ensure that they are washable first!

If your window display features a rabbit and a carrot here is a fun game that you could try before putting them in your window display.
Create a carrot using cardboard and fold it (like you would fold to make a paper fan).

Place your rabbit on the floor, since we’re practising social distancing please move 2 meters away from your rabbit and this is where you will start from.
Place the carrot on the floor and use the straw to blow the carrot until it reaches the rabbit.
If you’re competitive you could make more than one carrot and have a race to see who gets the carrot to the rabbit first.
Have fun!

 

Headteacher’s Challenge #5

Good morning to you all 🙂

I hope you’ve been managing to (safely) enjoy time outside in the lovely Spring sunshine.  To make the most of the glorious weather, today’s challenge is …

Build a den outside in your garden (or in your house) with your family

You can use anything – sheets, duvets, binbags, sleeping bags,  brush handles, clothes pegs, string, cardboard, chairs, boxes, trampolines ….

Think of the great times that you’ve had building dens on the grass in our Green Space at the ECC and use some of those ideas to help you build your den.

If you prefer, build your den inside your house somewhere – your bedroom, under the kitchen table or take over the whole living room (remember to ask for permission first …)  My boys used to build dens with their papa under the kitchen table when they were wee, and they used to eat their dinner there and sometimes even slept there too, all wrapped up in sleeping bags and pillows!

So, have fun, and I’d love to see some photos of you and your family in your dens on GLOW – you could try to squeeze some of your favourite toys into your den too.

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

Mrs Govans x 

(Logan and Harris busy in their garden)

10AM – HOLIDAY FUN

Stick man, oh Stick man, BEWARE OF THE WATER AYR!!!

Once you have collected your sticks, created your Stickman and on your way to put stickman in the Water Ayr. It would be a good opportunity to talk about safety around the water/river.

Please send us in your Stickman and what happened on Stickman’s adventure down the Water Ayr.

Who did he meet?

What did he see?

Where did the Water Ayr take him too?

Will he ever get back to the family tree?

What a fun way to start the holidays! Hope you are all having a lovely time together. 🙂

 

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   

2PM – FOOD AND HEALTH

Hello everyone! It is Friday at last!

Today we are going to make our very own lunch boxes! I have attached a copy of an empty lunchbox, if you wish to print it out but it is not essential, we can draw our own!

All you need to do is ask your child to draw what they would pack in their lunchbox if they were going to go on a picnic or out on a day out. You can label this for your child as well.

ADD ON!! – Why not ask your child to help you make up a pack lunch for them that they can have to eat in their room or even make a fort that you can both have lunch in! Enjoy.

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

 

2PM POST – LITERACY

One of our favourite games! Who doesn’t like a game of I Spy??? And what’s more, the educational benefits are tremendous! Initial sounds is a skill which can take a while to grasp with some children so it’s a great wee activity to do that’s easy no matter where you are.

Starting off it’s best to have items in front of your child that they can see

e.g. an apple

a car

a pencil

a ball

a doll

(you get the idea)

You then begin, “I spy with my little eye, something beginning with PI” (for P) remember to use the sounds that the letters make and not the letter names.

When your child begins to get the hang of 5 or 6 items on the table in front of them you could try this super tricky challenge sheet. And once they have mastered this they are ready to play anywhere.

I Spy

Challenge – try turning it around to see if your child can take a turn, asking YOU if you can find things using their initial sound clues.

For some finding eye spy using initial sounds a little tricky – why not start with COLOUR I SPY. Again set up the same only with coloured items OR you can use the checklist below and it can be a look and find activity. You can use it to match, or to give clues, colour, shape, size, where you might find one, pattern etc. Lots of possibilities.

Checklist

Have fun 🙂

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

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