Hi

A wee extra post.

Today is Robert Burns Day and we would have been doing lots of Scottish things in the nursery like painting the scotland flag 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿, drawing pictures of Robert Burns 👤, tasting some scottish food like shortbread and haggis, neeps and tatties and even having a ceilidh.

Today why dont you try some scottish poems or sing some Scottish songs,

Have a dance to some ceilidh music,

Draw or paint some scottish pictures.

We would love to see what kind of Scottish things you and your family get upto.

Tracey 💜

tracey.beattie@eastayrshire.org.uk

Good morning everyone 💛❤💚💙💜

I hope you all had a lovely weekend and had some fun in all that snow 🙂.

In nursery not only do we learn about shapes, colours and numbers and lots of other things  but we also learn how to be more independent.

Things like :-
🔹️putting on our own jackets and shoes.
🔹️Spreading our own toast and crackers.
🔹️Pouring our own milk and water.
🔹️Using a knife and fork.
🔹️Going to the toilet independently.

Skills like these help to build your child’s self esteem and confidence and helps with getting ready for school 👨‍🏫👩‍🏫.

At lunchtime we always encourage good table manners as well as encouraging the safe use of a knife and fork, try and always use your knife and fork when you are at home eating and try not to use your fingers.  Cutting your food can be very  tricky but always try yourself first before you get some help 🙂.

Having a sticker on the inside of your child’s shoes helps them to recognise which way is the right feet for them to put on by themselves.

Why not try and put your own jacket on and if you can also zip or fasten it up, put on your shoes or welly boots and go out a nice long walk with your family.

When you come home remember and also take your own jacket off and hang it up and also take off your own boots too.

Being independent can be hard work but with lots of practice it will soon be easy 🙂

Have a good week if you have any questions just email myself or your group lady 💜💙💚❤💛

Tracey 🙂💜

tracey.beattie@eastayrshire.org.uk

Good Morning Everyone 😊

Reading and sharing stories with your child helps them to get to know sounds, words and develop language and early literacy skills.   Not only does reading stories to children spark their imagination but it can also help develop concentration and listening skills.

So as it’s Friday, and all the kids and grown ups have been working really hard all week, I thought it would be lovely to cuddle up on the couch with your grown up and read your favourite story.  Afterwards you could talk about the characters and what happened in the story.

I have attached a little video of me reading one of my favourite stories called ‘Slinky Malinki Early Bird’.

I would love to hear what your favourite stories are.

Happy Reading!📖

Debbie 💛

Email: Deborah.fitzgerald@eastayrshire.org.uk

Good morning everyone 💜💛❤💚💙

Today I thought we could have a look at initial sounds.

I would like you to find objects that start with the same letter as your name for example T is for Tracey and T is for Train.

If you can do this, why not try and see if you can find any objects for the first letter of your mum, dad, brothers or sisters names or even any pets!

My pets name is also T …T is for Tilly.

Cant wait to see what you find.  Please send any photos to myself or your own group lady.

Have a fun everyone.

Tracey

tracey.beattie@eastayrshire.org.uk

As the home learning is set to continue until Mid-February we completely understand that staying at home as well as tackling home learning with your children can be extremely difficult. As always we here at Hurlford ECC are here to support as best we can during this time.

If you are needing any additional support or advice this may be something that our community practitioner Michelle Colquhoun can help with.

Here are contact details for Michelle along with some topics that Michelle can help with.

Please get in touch if you feel you may need too.

ENVIRONMENTAL PRINT
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Environmental print is the print of everyday life. It’s the print that appears on signs, labels and logo’s. It is on shop signs, street signs and food packages. Learning to read environmental print is an important pre-literacy skill.

Children can learn to read in shops, out on walks or in the home. They can identify their favourite box of cereal, snacks, films etc. It is an important step in learning to read print and helps bridge the connection between letters and the first efforts to read.

Have a look when you’re on a walk, what print do you know? What can you find around your house? Can you pick your favourites? I would love to see what prints you can identify.

I’ve also included an Environmental Print alphabet, you may recognise these prints from our wall in the ECC…. did you also spot them in Michelle’s video yesterday?

Take care,
Louise x
louise.mccloskey@eastayrshire.org.uk

Good Morning Everyone 🙂

I hope you are all well and enjoying taking part in all of our learning activities from home 👍🏻

One of our favourite things to do in the ECC is to sing songs and learn new nursery rhymes! So today, I thought we could have a little practice at our nursery rhymes.

Hey Diddle Diddle is one of my favourites – and I have been practicing lots.. check out the video below! Can you have a listen and try to learn this one too?

Below is the words of Hey Diddle Diddle so that your adults can help too. When you have finished, maybe you could tell me your favourite nursery rhyme too. Do you remember all the words? Can you sing it?

I would love to hear how you get on, you can send any pictures, videos or comments to –

michelle.quinn@eastayrshire.org.uk

Take care everyone, Michelle 😊

https://blogs.glowscotland.org.uk/ea/eahomelearninghub/

Good morning,

I hope we are all doing well at home and enjoying some of the activities.  Please remember and email your child’s key worker or myself for check ins or specific activities to develop your child’s learning. As the hub provision is on in the ECC, staff are at some point working in the ECC so may not get back to you that day.

For today’s task is to play some board games. Playing board games are one of the best ways to encourage learning whilst having fun. Games have many benefits like developing critical thinking skills, emotional and social  development with learning about turn taking; cooperating and winning or losing a game playing with peers.

If you have a printer at home this is a template of a counting game you could perhaps print or draw out on paper if not.

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I also saw this week is Space Week on CBeebies. They will be exploring the planets, solar system, astronauts, rockets and robots at the National Space Centre. Learning about Space is always a topic the children love learning about in the ECC so may be worth allowing them to watch and record what information the children can tell you? Ask them some questions. The episodes are on at 4:50pm daily.

Monday – Rockets 🚀

Tuesday – Solar System 🌌

Wednesday – International Space Station 🛰

Thursday – Space Robots 🤖

Friday – Astronaut training 👩🏻‍🚀

These will also be available on IPlayer.

You can let us know how you get on?

Maria ❤️

maria.paterson@eastayrshire.org.uk

Before Christmas we had been investigating shapes. We had a shape hunt around the nursery and found lots. I would like you to have a shape hunt at home , have a look and see if you can recognise any 2d shapes like a square,circle,rectangle and triangle.  Then you could try and find some 3d shapes, like a cylinder, a cube etc , maybe you could draw some shapes too. If you are outside , you might see all kinds of different shapes. See if you can name some of them. Get your grown-up to take some pictures, I would love to see them. Happy shape hunting everyone.