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The children have been working as part of a team to construct their own designs and were able to utilise their problem solving and imaginative skills throughout. Their designs were amazing!

This week in the creative area the children have been making their own world cup flags using a variety of different materials. The children were discussing the different countries, the culture behind the different countries and the different patterns they see in the flags.

During our STEM session this week the children revisited electricity and were able to discuss what is safe and unsafe. They were identifying signs within the school where the use of electricity was evident. The children then created their own posters to put around the school to raise awareness of keeping safe whist using electricity.

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Outdoors this week the children have been working as a team to construct their own obstacle courses as part of physical play. Some children were also able to use their imagination and work as a team to build robot men using a variety of loose parts materials. The children were also observed exploring in the mud kitchen using herbs and spices.

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Indoors this week the children began exploring families. Recognising different types of families and different people within a family. They began looking at the concept of looking after a baby – bathing them, changing and feeding. The children also displayed great turn taking and sharing skills with the different baby resources. The children explored the small world space by creating their own houses. The children listened to stories surrounding families and shared their own experiences. 

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Huge thank you to the parent council for hosting a world cup fun day today, everyone thoroughly enjoyed it.

All children enjoyed getting into the football spirit with dancing and singing throughout the day. They even enjoyed a world cup themed lunch too.

All children created their own Scotland themed empire biscuit today to enjoy as a social situation at snack.

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

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This week we have expanded our Burns farm shop into a cafe, where the children continued to explore ‘Farm to Fork’ and the concept of money whilst role playing. The children also enjoyed exploring small world resources, creating their own farm yards and jungle habitats. To further expand on the interest in letters, the children spent time in small groups looking at initial sounds in their name and other familiar words. Following from the children’s interests of role playing families and building houses for families, we will begin to look at families in more depth next week.

Links to the Curriculum; Health and Wellbeing, Social Studies

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Outdoors this week there was lots of talk around football. We extended children’s learning by exploring how to pick a team, chose a goalkeeper then play with a half time, switching sides. To keep things platonic we had Scotland 1 and Scotland 2. Children used tally marks to keep score and lots of celebrations were had at the end with the winning team. We listened to the music used to celebrate Scotland going to the World Cup and used iPad to explore what teams Scotland will play.

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This week in the ECC the children have continued to explore in our farm shop, creating price lists for all the items, exploring coins to buy the items and amount to the numeral. The children then transferred the items they bought in the farm shop to the home corner and cooked the items in the home corner like it was their own home. The children were able to use their imaginative skills throughout and applying their real life experiences to their play.

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This week in the outdoor area the children in exploring bugs, using books and ICT to fact find around bugs/insects, specially ones we find in our garden. The children supported staff to revamp our bug house and collected natural materials from our garden to enhance the structure of our bug house. The children used resources such as magnifying glasses and binoculars to search and investigate insects and bugs within the environment.

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

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Thanks to everyone who attended the fire pit experience today. This experience provided the children with an opportunity to build upon their safety skills and enabling them to understand the safety rules whilst being at a fire. It was also a great socialising experience for the children and their parents/carers and the children were also able to reflect on their experience at the woods.

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This week due to the continued interest in animals particularly farm animals, we created a farm shop which the children have enjoyed exploring in. Some children have been able to take on the role of a sales assistant and exploring the concept of money. We will continue to explore this next week to deepen children’s knowledge.

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As the children have been exploring various animals, some children used the ipad to investigate the terms used for mother/their young. Some children created their own images of animals and began discussing the need/care and nurture of living things. They then began discussing where their foods come from at lunch time, this progressed into ‘Farm to Fork’ topic. All children demonstrated an awareness of healthy foods particularly fruit and vegetables and were challenged to identify other food groups. Some children were able to use construction materials effectively to construct their own habitats, using mathematical language throughout.

In the art area the children began drawing/creating their own pirate ships with various mark making resources. This led to the discussion of treasure maps where they then created their own treasure maps. From this they used google maps to find their own houses within the local community.

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Outdoors stemming from interests, some children created their own foam potions in the mud kitchen, using our own grown herbs, using their senses and descriptive language throughout.

All children were involved in creating their own bubble wands. They were able to problem solve, research to determine the process of their creation and what was hindering the process from being successful. The children enjoyed exploring with their bubble wands in the outdoor area, sharing and turn taking with their peers.

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This week in the indoor playroom the children have began discussing and researching the correct terms for adult and young animals. The sensory tray has been developed into a jungle using ‘real mud’ as the children would say. Some children were discussing where meat comes from and we will continue to focus on this next week revisiting/touching upon ‘Farm to Fork’.

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This week in the outdoor area the children have shown an interest in using their senses to explore in the mud kitchen, using descriptive language throughout. They were utilising our home grown herbs and spices to further develop their interest.

Some children have been exploring the weather outdoors, linking with seasons and utilising our weather story stones to create a story in relation to this. We will continue to explore and further deepen children’s learning in relation to their interest.

Some children attended to our planting area this week, looking after our home grown items, ensuring they are supported and some children took home their own sweet pea to repot and to follow its growth journey at home.

Links to the Curriculum; Science, Health and Wellbeing.

Have a lovely weekend everyone, Cara.

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