I received lots of super photographs showing me the fun two sisters are having with their mummy and daddy as they engage in home learning!
There has been writing, spelling, telling the time, counting, art and craft skills and lots and lots of snow fun with making snowmen and snow angels!
Lots of fun times, learning and making memories together!
with warm regards, Mrs Nouillan
Good morning everyone,
It was lovely this morning to open my mail box and find lots of lovely photographs showing the fun one of our young learners is having at home as he takes part in the home learning activities I have shared.
He has taken part in the Character Hide and Seek activity and created maps to hide his characters, he also tested his sister to see if she could follow his maps! He’s made playdough and been taking part in lots of playdough fun and his mummy told me he loved the colour monster story and has drawn his own colour monster! His colours are, orange for happy, red for sad and pink for cross. It has been lovely to see how busy he is at home!
As I always say, we love to see the children and what they have been doing, so please email me and I will blog this for you.
with kindest regards, Mrs Nouillan
Tuesday 19th January 2021
Dear Families,
Over the last week I have shared lots of shared home learning but I would like to reassure you that you do not have to be completing these as part of your child’s learning experiences. In the ECC, all of our learning is underpinned by recognised good practice, primarily play and outdoor learning.
Please find below, a visual graphic of how you can support your child’s learning from everyday activities and these will also enable having great fun together and without pressure!
I have also attached the link to the web page which explains in detail in the value of each of these activities and how they count as learning!
https://www.weareteachers.com/everyday-activities-that-count-as-learning/
with kindest regards, Mrs Nouillan
Monday 18th January 2021
Dear Families,
I hope you are all safe and managed to enjoy some fun times together at the weekend.
On Friday, I posted the easy peasy recipe for playdough and I shared some ideas for home learning fun with the playdough.
Today’s activity is also related to playdough (we use playdough all the time in the ECC as it is a resource that can be used in so many ways).
Today, or perhaps even for the week, use the playdough to make self or family portraits.
First look in a mirror together and talk about your faces and name the facial features as you chat. Then look for and discuss differences and similarities, you could also discuss shapes, sizes and colours.
Then make your own portraits and for an added extra sensory experience to the activity, you could collect natural materials on a walk and add these to create pattern and a variety of textures.
As the week goes on, the portraits could be revisited and changed to represent feelings and emotions. I have attached below a beautiful story about feelings and emotions.
Remember, we always love to see the children’s learning so please email over photographs for sharing on the blog!
Please open the link below for the story, it really is beautiful and is perfect for discussing feelings and emotions.
With warmest regards, Mrs Nouillan
Friday 15th January 2021
Good afternoon everyone,
I hope you are all well and have been enjoying some lovely shared home learning and the story I shared yesterday.
I will post Monday’s activity today as it is a little bit of a messy activity and it might be something you’d like to make over the weekend in preparation for Monday.
Playdough!
If you would like to, please follow our easy peasy recipe for homemade playdough. I have included adding food colouring to the recipe but if you don’t have any food colouring you could use a little paint for colouring or you could leave it natural! In the ECC, we often add smells – this could be cinnamon, mint extract, aromatherapy oils etc.
Ingredients
• 2 cups of flour (any type)
• 1 cup of salt
• 1 tablespoon of cream of tartar
• 4 tablespoons of oil (vegetable or sunflower)
• 2 cups of boiling water
Add all the ingredients together and mix and knead as if making bread! If it is a little sticky, put it in the microwave for 30 seconds. Please note, it can come out of the microwave really hot, so please be careful!
Your playdough will keep for a couple of weeks if it is stored in an airtight container in the fridge – depending on use. This easy peasy playdough is more cost effective than buying shop bought playdough and it is great fun to make it together!
When you are making your playdough with your child/children, use the language of counting and measuring as you go and question as you go to promote thinking eg
I wonder what colours we will make? I wonder what we could make with your playdough once it is ready? How does it feel? Is it soft and smooth or a bit bumpy and rough?
Possible activities for playdough fun and learning but the list is endless!
Make: numbers, letters, names, 2d flat shapes, roll into different sized lengths and talk about long, longer longest, big, bigger, biggest, short, shorter, shortest or you may have your own lovely ideas of things to make which meet your child’s interests!
Whatever you do, have fun and if you would like to, you can send me photographs of your creations!
Enjoy a happy and safe weekend!
With warmest regards, Mrs Nouillan
Dear Families,
No sooner had I posted the wonderful Claire Warden Winter Nature School learning activities, the lightest flurry of snow began! So very fortuitous!
If you have made it outside today and enjoyed some snow fun, I now hope you are home and starting to defrost, perhaps with a hot chocolate!
As I’ve shared a lot of learning this week, I won’t post for tomorrow. Instead, if you are able to, perhaps you could familiarise yourself with the beautiful activities that have been shared as part of the Winter Nature School or perhaps, you might enjoy a cosy day indoors with a good book.
Please click on the link below for a cosy up together story which is very in keeping with the current cold and snowy weather.
However you may spend your weekend, have a safe and lovely time. Remember, you are most welcome to email me photographs for the blog.
With sincerest regards, Mrs Nouillan
Wednesday 13th January 2021
Just before we closed for the Christmas holidays, I was successful with my application bid for Dunlop ECC to take part in the Winter Nature School Training programme which was being led by Dr Claire Warden & sponsored by Mindstretchers Academy.
Claire Warden is an Educational and Experiential Pioneer and is the founder of Scotland’s first Nature Kindergarten. She leads work around the world on Outdoor Play and Outdoor Learning so I am delighted for us all at the ECC to be awarded a place on this prestigious training. The training will begin when the ECC reopens.
In the meantime, I have received lots of lovely ideas for Winter Nature School learning from Claire Warden and Mindstretchers and I will share these as part of the shared home learning you may wish to take part in.
As always,
I am very mindful of your family and work commitments and there is no obligation to take part.
If you do take part and you would like to share some of your lovely learning for me to share on the blog or for the learning to be included in your child’s Personal Learning Book, please email me.
Please open the link to the Winter Nature School Learning
Wintertime Nature Play Diary (1)
With kindest regards, Mrs Nouillan
Tuesday 12th January 2021
Good afternoon everyone,
I hope you have enjoyed this cold but sunny day.
Please open the link below for another fun and interesting shared home learning activity, please note, as I never posted until later in the day yesterday, I will now post at this time every day (3pm) and this will share with you the activity for the following day. I am very mindful that you may be busy with work and other family commitments and there is no expectation for you and your child to take part in these activities.
Activity link –
I have received lovely photographs from one of our young learners showing the fun he had and what we made from the activity ‘It’s not Just a Box’ and as it is currently the RSPB Big Garden Birdwatch, he might be putting these to very good use with a spot of twitching!
We love to see the children learning at home or when they are out and about in Dunlop, so please remember to take photographs and email them to me for us all to enjoy.
Take care and I look forward to seeing your shared home learning fun!
with warmest regards, Mrs Nouillan
Dear Parents/Carers,
During the first school closure, I shared with you many ideas for shared home learning across the different curricular ideas and I am sharing these again as there is an abundance of lovely learning ideas.
Please note, these activities are in addition to the daily EAC home learning activity I will share with you but none of this is compulsory. The learning listed is intended only to give you some ideas to keep your child/children busy and engaged in some home play based learning, but I appreciate many of you will already have your own bank of lovely ideas you may choose to do.
Please note, the list is very mindful of your ability to access resources, it is based on resources/home items you would already have and will not require you to purchase anything.
In order that we keep in contact with each other and to share home learning, you are welcome to email me photographs of what your child/children has/have been doing, this can also include your own home learning activities. I will upload shared learning to our Dunlop ECC Glow Blog as it will be lovely to see the children and for the children to still see their friends.
Please open the links below to the ECC shared home learning bank of ideas.
Health and Wellbeing home learning
Numeracy and Maths home learning
With kindest regards, Mrs Nouillan
Good morning families of Dunlop ECC,
I hope you are well and in amongst all that has been happening, you managed to enjoy a lovely Christmas with your loved ones.
As we return this term to the challenges that lie ahead, please be assured the Dunlop ECC staff team and myself will be here to work in partnership with you as you seek to support your child at home with their learning.
We are sorry not to welcome the children back but to keep in touch with you, I will share daily with you, a play based learning activity you may choose to do as part of quality shared home learning.
Please note, I appreciate you may have other commitments and you do not have the time, or you may have a bank of your own lovely ideas for play based learning, the activities I share are completely optional and are shared only as suggestions.
Please note, both Mrs Wilson and myself are in attendance in school every day, should you need to contact us about anything.
Please open the link below to take you to today’s shared home learning activity.
With warmest regards,
Mrs Nouillan
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