Since we are finishing up for our holiday I thought I would make this STEM homelink out of this world!

I will provide different activities that link with the meaning of STEM. These activities will be based on developing the children’s knowledge of space.

S stands for Science.

Here are some videos to help explain what space is and facts about our planets.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=qfnceI0H-yc

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=w36yxLgwUOc&cbrd=1

Here is a link to a fun rocket launch experiment if you would like to give it a try.

https://www.123homeschool4me.com/soda-rocket-science-experiment-for-kids_49/

T is for technology.

For this activity encourage your child to independently use an iPad, laptop or phone to search some facts about space, rockets, astronauts or planets.

Siri is great to use to support your child to search facts without typing or you can guide them as to what letters they need to type to search.

Once your child has found some facts they could make a short video or poster to share with us some of the interesting information they have found.

E is for engineering.

The children have recently been enjoying the junk modelling in the ECC so have a look around the house and see if there are any materials you can use to create your own solar system or rocket. Here are a few ideas:

M is for maths.

If we have a clear sky on a few nights during the holiday, have a look to see if you can see any stars in the sky. Encourage your child to try and count how many stars they can see in the sky that night. Encourage your child to mark make (tally mark) or write the number to record how many stars they see each night.

Please send any pictures or videos to easherrie.devlin@glow.sch.uk

or upload them to your child’s learning journals.

I can’t wait to see them!

Have a wonderful break!

This is the beginning of our STEM homelink block where we will be providing the children with fun activities to promote STEM based learning at home. We will post a different activity each week for a 4 week block.

For our first activity we will experiment with some resources to try and create a secret message or picture by creating invisible ink.

What you will need: a lemon, a bowl, paper, a cotton bud and a light bulb or a crayon.

Here is how to make our invisible ink:

Squeeze the lemon juice into a bowl. Mix gently. Dip the cotton bud into the liquid and write a message or draw a picture on the paper.

Let the liquid dry completely so that the message or picture is invisible.

To share your secret or to see your picture hold it close to a lightbulb with an adult’s help. The message will be revealed.

If you don’t want to use a heat source then can also sprinkle salt over you paper when the lemon juice is drying. Then brush the excess salt off when the paper is dry and use a crayon to colour over your work to reveal the secrete.

Encourage your child to try and predict what will happen when their paper is held up to the light bulb or when you colour the paper with a crayon.

The lemon juice will change colour when it is exposed to a slight heat. This is a chemical reaction.

Please share any of your invisible ink messages or pictures with me. You can send a photo of your work to easherrie.devlin@glow.sch.uk

You can also upload a photo to your learning journal or bring in your invisible ink work and we can look at it in the ECC.

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YOUR VOTE MATTERS 

To celebrate our return to our beautifully refurbished Newton Street site, we would like to welcome family, friends and surrounding communities to our Open Evening on Wednesday 1^st February from 6.00-7.30pm.

Come along and see our fantastic spaces for learning, excellent new resources and our wonderful outdoor areas. Please note this invite is for anyone – with or without children currently attending our setting.

We are so proud of how great Catrine ECC is looking, and we can’t wait to share it with you all.

(under 16s to be accompanied by an adult please)

We have been on the Tesco waiting list for some time now, and its finally our turn 🙂

Please tell your family and friends, share it on social media sites and don’t forget to lift your blue tokens every time you are in store from now until March 🙂

The winning applicant gets a whopping £1500. If we win our aim is to transform our natural greenspace into an area full of risky play equipment developing gross motor skills, confidence, coordination, resilience and much, much more.

So remember, next time you are in

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Catrine Early Childhood Centre.

Thank you millions 🙂

What an amazing day 🙂

We are thrilled to bits at how today went. The children were fantastic, staff had a ball and it was lovely to hear such positive comments from parent/carers.

We know the majority of you are keen to see the other playrooms so on Friday we will be opening our doors from 2pm onwards for anyone that would like to drop in and explore with their child before taking them home.

Please note this is not a community open door day. We ask that it is at very most 2 adults per child simply for a wee walk round.

We will open our doors fully to extended family members, the community and residents of other nearby villages at our open night (tbc)

Thank you for your continued support throughout our decant –

love from a very happy TEAM CATRINE ECC.

Excited is an understatement!

Here are just some photographs taken before we left tonight – ready for all of our children and families returning tomorrow morning 🙂

We cannot wait to welcome you back and see the children’s faces 🤩

Don’t forget your indoor shoes and wellies 🙂