Indoors-

This week in the ECC we have been exploring insects and bugs and the children have been interested in the life cycle of them and the science behind it 🐛 🐜 🐞

Links to the Curriculum; Science, Technology, Literacy.

We have watched our plants growing within the ECC and had great conversations around this and what plants need to grow 🪴 🌱.

Links to the Curriculum; Science, Literacy.

Outdoors-

The children have been using their problem solving and creative skills to build an obstacle course outdoors. The children have also enjoyed exploring in the mud kitchen, creating their own recipes and their own mud pies.

Links to the Curriculum; Health and Well-being, Expressive Arts.

Stay & Play-

We also had a stay and play this week within the ECC, big thank you to all the parents who came.

Have a lovely Easter holiday everyone and we look forward to welcoming you in the new term 🐣 🐰.

Cara.

Indoor learning

Children have taken a real interest in bugs following on from our visitor on Friday. They have been exploring all kinds of insects from spiders to millipedes and made an imaginary bug hotel to role play indoors.

Some  children have been investigating the life cycle of bugs and how they stay alive. They have been using their scrap books to explore literacy and their drawings.

CURRICULAR AREAS –  SCN, HWB, MNU, LITERACY.

Within the creative area children have been using craft materials to represent their own bugs, looking at how many kegs they have, the pattern of their skin to name a few learning skills. This has been in both craft and dough.

CURRICULAR AREA – EXA, SCN, HWB, MNU, RME

Outdoor Learning

Almost all children have continued to show an interest in how to look after a baby and with the weather being slightly warmer this week they got the opportunity to bath their babies and share their knowledge with each other.

They have also continued using the construction but instead of towers they have been exploring obstacle courses again using knowledge they have gained from previous learning. They were still keen to use the measuring resources too.

CURRICULAR AREA –  HWB, MNU, RME, LIT, SOC

WOODS

We have completed our den building task up the woods where all 3 groups were challenged to build a shelter to have their snack. Each group did a different den and built up life long skills doing so.

Play & stay session are next week so check board at entrance for your day! Monday is RED group.

have fun weekend, Lynnette x

Week beginning 13.03.23

This week the children have been exploring a range of activities relating to STEM in celebration of STEM week 🧪 🖥 👷‍♀️ 🧮

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Science,_technology,_engineering,_and_mathematics

Exploring soil 🍃

As we have been focusing on the Jungle, we began looking at the jungle floor layers and their purpose. We looked at the soil specifically and how it give plant life nutrients and then we created our own terrariums to show the different layers and how it looks. We created these using various glass containers. We will be looking at these on a daily basis to discover if there is any insect life or new plant life 🐜 

Science!
The name comes from the Latin terra (“earth”) + atrium (a place or receptacle) Like an aquarium for plants and earth instead of fish and water.

We later planted some vegetable seeds and herbs in the garden after really enjoying our terrarium building 🌱

We also had a special visitor in the ECC this week. Dr Kelly and Miss Thomson are parents within the centre who specialises in science. They prepared a fantastic experience for us which included learning about bugs/insects. We explored mean bugs and superhero bugs, to understand which bugs help us and which we should avoid. We got to use special microscopes from the university and explored different samples. The children throughly enjoyed this experience and we thank Dr Kelly and Miss Thomson for their involvement and help in STEM week ⭐️ 

We ended our week with our STEM awards ceremony where everyone was recognised for their part during the week 👏 💫

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In relation to STEM week, everyone had the opportunity to participate in our outdoor challenge 🧱 The children were set the challenge of using multiple resources to create a tower of height. They then had to use various measuring objects to calculate who had created the tallest tower before recording their findings on our whiteboard. The children discussed numbers, sizes and ordering of numerals. The winner of the highest tower was awarded a special certificate for their achievement 😊

Hope you all have a fantastic weekend and take care,

Lisa 😊

This week indoors the children have began to explore Jungle animals. We have been using technology, ie iPads and Promethean Board to find out information about what animals live in the Jungle.

In the art area we have been exploring animal patterns of stripes, spots etc. using a variety of media like paint and collage.

Outdoors we are learning about Health and Hygiene…how to wash ourselves and our clothes using dolls and child size clothes. We are also starting to match numbers using natural resources and have been pairing up the socks we have washed.

Next week is STEM week and we will be exploring a variety of activities in the ECC. We are also having a visit from one of our parents who is a micro biologist 👨‍🔬

Have a lovely weekend everyone

Jan 😊

This week in the main playroom the children have been continuing to explore dinosaurs. They have been exploring tuff tray to explore where dinosaurs live and what they eat.

We also celebrated world book day 📕 and enjoyed discussing our favourite story books and characters. We have been focusing on Handa’s Surprise  for world book day exploring different cultures through music, bookbug, food and discussion.

Health and Wellbeing/literacy/RME

This week in the art area the children have been making dinosaurs and making footprint marks using playdough

Expressive arts

Outdoors

The children have been continuing to explore space outdoors and how to stay safe. They have been making traffic lights to explore direction and when to stop and go.

Health and well-being