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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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This week in the indoor playroom following from children’s interests and discussion around a trip to the safari park, the children have been exploring safari animals in the small world area. Using their imagination and applying their knowledge and real life experiences throughout.

The children have been using the ipads and promethean board to fact find about safari animals and extend their knowledge on the animals habitats. The children then extended their learning into exploring animal sounds and an animal sound guessing game to test their knowledge. Some children also enjoyed reciting animal rhymes and songs.

The creative area has had a revamp this week to encourage independence and self-selection of resources. This has been a very popular area this week where the children have been observed mark making, creating collage images and also constructing their own designs.

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

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