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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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This week in the ECC the children have been exploring the theme of Christmas, the Christmas story and the meaning behind this. The children had the opportunity to use props to retell the Christmas story, using their imagination throughout. The children have also had the opportunity to work on their mark making skills whilst writing letters to Santa. There was a variety of words on display for the children to copy, building upon letter formation.

In the creative area the children have been creating their own wrapping paper, creating their own patterns on their wrapping paper.

Links to the Curriculum; Literacy, Social Studies, RME, Expressive Arts, Numeracy.

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This week outdoors the children have extended their water experiences from last week, exploring floating and sinking, the size of the objects and their components. The children then participated in data analysis, creating a chart as to what objects floated and what sunk. The children have enjoyed exploring a variety of mark making experiences outdoors, drawing around their peers and their bodies.

Links to the Curriculum; Numeracy, Technology, Literacy, Science.

Huge well done to all the children in participating in the Christmas concert. Everyone was amazing, the staff at the ECC are all so proud of you. The children all received a superstar sticker today for their great performance.

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This week in the ECC the children have been exploring Christmas resources and learning experiences. The home corner has been changed into Santa’s Christmas house where the children have been role playing and using their imagination whilst exploring a variety of different resources and materials. The children have continued to explore winter animals in the small world area and their habitats. The children then incorporated a train track into the small world area and were transporting the animals via the trains. Some children have shown an interest in using the construction materials to build their interpretation of Santa’s house.

In the creative area the children have been exploring patters using a variety of Christmas shapes. The children have also been building upon their scissor control too.

The children had the opportunity to decorate the Christmas tree in the ECC.

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This week the children have enjoyed exploring small world space outdoors. Our theme this week was a winter wonderland after child interest in Christmas and the frost outside. The children created a train track, train station and even decorated their own outdoor Christmas tree. The children enjoyed role playing in this space and exploring the different trains we had.

The children have also been exploring the concept of capacity and forces in the water tray. They built their very own “water slide” to see how fast the water would go and if it would fill up different sizes of pots. The children shown their ability to work in a team, helping each other build different parts of the water slides with various pipes and loose parts. The children explored capacity and were able to identify containers which were full and empty. The children were further challenged to add different heights of pipes to see how it would change the way in which the water would move. It did change the outcome with the water either moving slowly or too fast falling out of the pipe. We will continue to explore the language around capacity and forces within the water tray.

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This week the children have been exploring and discussing the change in the weather, snow and ice and have been interested in exploring winter animals. The small world area was adapted in terms of children’s interests and a variety of loose parts and winter animals were added. The children began exploring the habitats of winter animals using the internet as a form of research to explore the variety of winter animals around the world and where they live. Some children also participated in penguin dancing on the board.

We also had an author visit the ECC this week where she shared her story all about litter picking and helping the environment. She also left us with a bank of resources to use in the community and help look after our environment.

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This week outdoors the children have been interested in exploring using the pipes and cars. A challenge provocation was added in order to extend children’s problem solving skills using data handling. The children had to measure and count how many times their car won the race.

We also participated in ‘Mauchline Shines’ day on Thursday as we received our gold Rights Respecting Schools Award. We had a joint party outdoors with the primary ones.

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

Have a lovely weekend everyone, Cara.

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This week in the ECC the children have been using their imagination to role play in the salon. Their role play has extended into construction, building castles and acting out the role of a king, queen and princess etc.
Some children noted the change in their weather this week and the temperature drop. We added snow and snow animals into the small world area.

As part of rhyme time the children recited a variety of different nursery rhymes and completed rhyme games on the promethean board.

Outdoors this week the children have been exploring initial sounds in words and have been exploring initial sound objects and sorting by initial sound. The children have also been exploring babies outdoors and how to care for a baby.

Links to the curriculum; Health and Well-being, Social Studies, Literacy.

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This week we have been exploring bonfire night. The children have been exploring fireworks and the movement and sound fireworks make. A main focus was safety around fireworks and how to keep safe during bonfire night. In the creative area the children have been creating their own patterns and mixing of colours.

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

O u t d o o r s – 

This week we have exploring colour mixing using spray bottles and developing our fine motor skills. The children also created firework pictures using salt and glue and colour mixing to see the effect they could create. The children were also using internet to research different fireworks and what they may look like.

Links to the Curriculum; Science, Expressive Arts, Literacy.

Have a lovely weekend everyone, Cara x

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This week in the ECC we have been exploring all things Halloween. Focusing on fine motor skills there was some challenges set up where the children had to attempt to get the spiders from the webs using tweezers, scoop out eyeballs from the water tray and also design their own spiders. Many children explored a variety of Halloween stories in the ECC, sharing these with their peers.

Links to the Curriculum; Literacy, Science, Expressive Arts.

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Outdoors this week the children have been exploring sensory experiences using their senses- pumpkins 🎃.  They have also been exploring imaginative play through Halloween characters.

Most children were aware of the aspects of Halloween; fictional characters, creating spooky houses using the construction materials and exploring spooky tales 👻.

Links to the Curriculum; Literacy, Technology, Health and Well-being and Social Studies.

Thank you to all the parents who attended the ECC Halloween Stay and Play Sessions we hope you enjoyed 🎃.

ECC Halloween Party 🎃 👻

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This week in the ECC we have continued to explore the children’s interest of building and constructing their own designs. Further construction materials were added to provide depth in children’s learning.

In the creative area we have continued to create our own mosaic houses as well as exploring junk modelling where they are developing their manipulative skills.

Some of the children attended the community garden where they harvest the pumpkins that we had grown and are now decorating these which will be on display at the Community pumpkin trail on 1st November.

Links to the Curriculum; Technology, Science, Expressive Arts.

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The children have continued to explore different aspects of autumn. The children explored a sensory experience and made their own autumn playdough. Some children were interested in discussing the changes in the weather and what happens in autumn. Descriptive language was evident throughout.

Spontaneous learning this week the children created their own mud pies in the mud kitchen and have seemed to enjoy exploring in the water tray, exploring floating and sinking.

Links to the Curriculum; Science, Social Studies.

Have a lovely weekend everyone, Cara.