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This week indoors the children have been continuing to explore People Who Help Us. We adapted our home corner into a cafe, the children created their own menus and taking on the role of a waitress/waiter, applying their real life experiences to their imaginative play.

The children have also been creating their own stories in relation to People Who Help Us, developing their imaginative and fine motor skills.

In the creative area we have began to look at Chinese new year, making our own Chinese lanterns, challenging ourselves to create a pattern. We have also been using the internet to research and explore Chinese traditions, looking at dragon dances and the zodiac symbols for animals, learning it was the year of the horse.

Links to the Curriculum; RME, Literacy, Health and Wellbeing.

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Outdoors this week the children have been working alongside Becca to revamp the outdoor area. The children have made clear defined areas outdoors, we have a new cosy shelter for children to explore in and some children have enjoyed a story in our cosy shelter. Some children enjoyed exploring with the small loose part materials in the small world area, using their imagination throughout.

Links to the Curriculum; Health and Wellbeing, Literacy, Social Studies.

This week the ECC had a special visitor- Ziggy and his Road Safety Roadshow. The children had the opportunity to enjoy songs and games based all around road safety and how to keep safe whilst travelling in the community. Each child received a Ziggy bag home to enjoy.

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This week the children have continued to explore ‘People Who Help Us’ through constructing their own models and designs, using their problem solving and imaginative skills. Some children created hospital beds using construction materials for their midwifery ward and were seen role playing with their peers.

Some children used the construction materials to retell the story of ‘The Billy Goats Gruff’.

The children had the opportunity to explore the valentines sensory tray ‘spreading the love’ as the children were saying. Creating different valentines potions.

The children have also enjoyed role playing in the home corner, as a cafe, serving one another food, applying their real life experiences to their imaginative play. To further extend children’s interests we will create a cafe in the home corner.

All children had the opportunity to create a valentine craft to take home to someone special.

Links to the Curriculum; Literacy, Technology, Social Studies, Science, Expressive Arts.

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This week the children have been exploring People Who Help Us, exploring the different job roles and how their role might help us. They have enjoyed using their imaginative skills in the role play area, taking on the role of e.g. a doctor, police officer, fire fighter, applying their real life experiences to their imaginative play. All children have knowledge of People Who Help Us however, we explored the children’s learning in more depth with a focus on doctors and hospitals. Some children were able to identify body parts and the name for specific body parts, some children were exploring x-ray photographs on the light box.

For our STEM focus this week the children have been exploring direction using the bee-bots with Rebecca our STEM champion.

Links to the Curriculum; Health and Wellbeing, Social Studies, Science, Technology.

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Outdoors this week we have had a focus on feelings, linking with the upcoming Mental Health Week. Whilst we had parents visiting, the children and their parents took part in a colour monster scavenger hunt, focusing on how being outdoors makes our bodies feel strong and our minds feel happy. The children have been exploring forces by creating their own vehicles and building race tracks to explore this. They also created their own data handling tally score in relation to how far something travels.

The children were also being very creative in the mud kitchen, working together as part of a team creating their own menus.

Links to the Curriculum; Health and Wellbeing, Science, Numeracy, Technology.

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This week the children were using their senses to explore, catching snow in their tongues,  participating in risky play and challenge.

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The children continued to explore families, creating their own family story/picture books. The children have began to show an interest in vehicles, building their own vehicles in the construction area. We have added sand in the indoor environment, the children have seemed to enjoy exploring this sensory experience, mainly focusing on sharing and turn taking.

We also revisited ‘Pantosaurus’ to recap children’s right to privacy linking with UNCRC and our ECC charter.

Links to the Curriculum; Literacy, Technology, Health and Wellbeing, Social Studies.

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The children have been exploring Scottish music outdoors, using musical instruments to support their play, discussions around Robert Burns and the history behind this.

Well done to everyone who participated in the Big Bird Watch and completed the home link challenge. The children have been using their own homemade binoculars outdoors to look for birds. Discussions around the different species of birds and using/recalling bird names. The children made more bird feeders to take home.

We also created a new shelter outdoors and the children enjoyed exploring a variety of different stories in their ‘cosy wee shelter’.

Links to the Curriculum; Social Studies, Health and wellbeing, Literacy.

Some children participated in ‘Woodland Wednesday’ this week, participating in risk taking play, building upon gross motor skills and using our senses/imagination to explore. Some children were looking for ‘Big Foot’ in the woods.

Links to the Curriculum; Health and Wellbeing, Social Studies.

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This week the children have continued to explore the theme of families and what family means to them. They have explored how to care for a baby using role play resources and stories, applying their real life experiences to their play.

In the small world area the children have been building small houses out of different construction materials and role playing families.  We have had some new children start at the ECC and we have been exploring/revisiting the ECC charter and colour monster.

Links to the Curriculum; Social Studies, Technology, Health and Wellbeing.

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The children have been exploring nature and different species of birds. They made their own bird hide out and using construction parts as binoculars. Most of the children created their own bird feeders to take home as part of the ‘Big Bird Watch’ home link they will be taking part in this weekend. Next week Lynnette will create a bar chart in relation to the Big Bird Watch and submit the children’s findings, so remember to complete your homework.

Links to the Curriculum; Science, Health and Wellbeing.

Have a lovely weekend everyone, Cara.

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This week in the ECC we have been exploring the theme of families and how families can be different in many different ways. The children have been exploring families in the small world area, dolls house, exploring different family members in the dolls house. Some children were able to apply their real life experiences of their family to their imaginative play.

In the creative area the children have been designing their own family trees using a variety of collage materials.

In the quiet room this week we have focusing on story telling; exploring stories, retelling and predicting  what happens next in a story and creating our own stories.

Links to the Curriculum; Health and Wellbeing, Expressive Arts, Social Studies, Technology.

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This week in the outdoor area the children have been exploring and using real tools to create their very own bird house. The children called it ‘Mauchline ECC penthouse’. The children were risk assessing their own learning and how to use tools safely. They worked as part of a team to create the bird house.

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The children have been discussing Christmas, what they gifts they received and spending time with family. The children have been discussing their family life and applying real life experiences to their imaginative play. We will continue to focus on the theme of families and what family means to the children.

In the creative area the children were exploring mark making materials and drawing their own family with create detail and ascribing meaning to their marks.

Links to the Curriculum; Literacy, Expressive Arts, Social Studies, Health and Wellbeing.

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This week outdoors the children have been exploring the weather (ice), exploring the ice and the formation of ice. The children were also taking photographs of the ice outdoors and discussing the patterns ice creates. The children were also exploring the story the bug collector and next week we will continue their interest of this and create a bird house outdoors.

Links to the Curriculum; Science, Technology.

The ECC have had issues with ICT equipment this week and this has been an on going issue across EAC, hoping to have it fixed and back up and running next week. Unable to upload photographs due to this. Sorry for any inconvenience

Have a lovely weekend everyone, Cara.

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Week commencing 08.12.25 🎅

All children enjoyed various activities linked to Christmas both indoors and outdoors. Indoors the children explored our elf wrapping station where they were challenged to cut, tape and wrap gift boxes of all sizes. This supports fine motor skills and problem solving skills as well as discussing the importance of using tools safety.

In the creative area the children have been exploring patters using a variety of Christmas shapes and creating their own wrapping paper. The children have also been building upon their scissor control too within creative area. This week in the ECC the children have been exploring pattern further, creating their own patterns on Christmas cards which we will deliver out in the community to local businesses. The children have also been creating their own Christmas baubles and tea light decorations.

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