With Burns day fast approaching on 25th January we will be listening to some Scottish music and Poems over the next few weeks within the ECC. We have chosen a well known Scottish poem The Wee Rid Motor 🚘 that you can help your child to learn at home if they wish.
You can send us a wee short video of them reciting the poem and as part of our Burns Day Celebrations the children that wish to will have an opportunity to recite the poem for their friends within the ECC.
The children explored new ways to build on their drawing skills by following spoken instructions and step by step illustrations to complete fun pictures.
Some of the children engaged well and seemed to enjoy the challenge. They learned how to make their pictures appear 3 dimensional and which strategies help to keep your drawing in proportion.
“I can’t do it”
”Mine is rubbish”
We are going to support the children in showing pride in their abilities, skills, achievements and qualities.
The Promethean board can also be a fantastic mathematical resource to engage children in counting using 1:1 correspondence.
“He needs 9 cakes”
This week in the chestnut room we have had lots of fun making lots of Christmas crafts 🎄
“We made some yummy shortbread .”
We made gingerbread and cinnamon play dough. And some of the children decided to make gingerbread men.
“The play dough smells of cakes” “ I made a gingerbread man”
The children have been enjoying learning about symmetry. We made Christmas trees and we spoke about how the two sides are the exactly the same when the card is folded over .
“It’s the same”
”look at my tree”
We used lots of different collage materials to decorate our Christmas jumpers.
We had a very special visit from the Elf! He came into our garden to say hello to everyone. We all enjoyed our visit 😀
This has taken pride of place in our room, the children used the wood we gathered from our walk and whittled it down then made a tree shape. The children then made some decorations to hang on the tree and we added some twinkling lights.
On Thursday 9th December we will be filming our Christmas sing a long. If possible could your child please wear something festive eg jumper,dress, shirt, hair accessory or even some tinsel. If possible could you please provide a scarf that your child could wear for one of our songs on the day.
Hamper raffle tickets are now on sale from front office £2 per strip can be bought from main office window between 8-9.30am and 1.15-1.45pm.
Friday 10th: Christmas jumper day.
Important dates: Wednesday 15th Christmas party (chestnut room) children can wear party clothes if you wish.
16 or 17th December special person outdoor visit
20 or 21st McDougalls virtual show.
We have had a busy week in the chestnut room this week. Some of the children made lovely kindness snowflakes with a lovely message on them these are displayed at the front door of the ECC .
The boys and girls collected lots of stick from the woods last week and we took them back to the nursery to do some whittling. We are going to make a lovely Christmas tree with all the sticks that we collected. The children are all very excited to get started on our Christmas tree and show everyone our finished tree 🎄
The children have took an interest in learning about sequencing and pattern. The children have enjoyed playing a few games to help develop their knowledge about pattern and sequencing. We are going to take this forward over the next few weeks and incorporate it into our Christmas planning and activities.
We also enjoyed baking scones this week.The children loved baking and at snack time we got taste the amazing scones we baked.
”These taste yummy” “ I bake cakes with my mummy “
”I am mixing it all up” “I love scones”
”we need to add butter” The butter feels cold”
Can we please remind parent/carers that due to Covid regulations that we cannot accept children’s backpacks into the ECC . If your child needs to bring in a change of clothes these can be brought in and staff will then place them into their child’s drawstring bag that stays in the ECC .
Thank you for your cooperation.
Can all parents/ carers please check that their child has the correct green nursery jumpers at home. We have a missing jumper aged 2-3 the child’s name is on the label. If your child has taken it home by mistake please can you return it to the ECC.
Thank you.
As per previous post our garden area has been wet and muddy recently due to the weather. We are going through quite a lot of changes of clothes each day if your child has borrowed some spares from the ECC please could you return these to us as we have no spares left and if you have any old clothes items that no longer fit your child we would appreciate any clothing donations. (we are especially short of trousers age 3-4, 4-5 and 5-6 years)
Please could you provide a full set of spare clothes in a plastic carrier bag to be kept within the ECC for when required.
Within the ECC we access outdoors on a daily basis no matter the weather. Due to the amount of rain recently the garden at some areas can be quite muddy and muddy puddles are a huge attraction to the children!
Please could you ensure your child has a suitable warm waterproof jacket that will potentially get wet/muddy and suitable footwear for both indoor and outdoor play.
We would encourage the children’s footwear to be suitable for the children to independently put on/take off by themselves as it can be very time consuming if staff are required to put on/off children’s footwear several times a day.
Lastly could we please encourage you to provide a change of clothes for your child/children as we are very short of spare clothes within the ECC and despite our best efforts and the use of a limited number of waterproof trousers children’s clothes do still get wet/muddy during times of outdoor learning
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