Week beginning 18.12.23

What an exciting week we have had in the run up to the holidays 😊🎉🎅

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Indoors this week, the children have enjoyed exploring transient art 🪵🌲

https://earlyimpactlearning.com/transient-art-definition-examples-activities/

They enjoyed exploring various materials and creating Christmas trees using moveable objects 🎄 This encourages creativity with open ended resources and supports language and communication skills.

Some children created play dough before exploring various shape cutters, making Christmas ‘cookies’ 🍪 We added some cinnamon spice to the play dough and enjoyed using our senses to smell and touch throughout. We also decorated some gingerbread biscuits with our TAP teacher Hannah before eating them 😋 The children discussed the different smells, taste and touch. Some children described the biscuits as spicy, salty and minty 🍪

P A R T Y!

On Tuesday we enjoyed our Christmas party 🎈 All children looked amazing in their party clothes and enjoyed taking part in some party games. We played musical bumps, Christmas corners and had a prize for the best dancer. We danced to a selection of Christmas music and showed off our favourite moves 🕺 Also, thank-you to the parent council for donating a special party snack 🍬

P A N T O M I M E

Our N5 children had the opportunity to watch our in school pantomime on Wednesday ‘ Robin Hood.’ They all thoroughly enjoyed the performance.

Oh yes they did! 🍿🎭

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Outdoors this week some children enjoyed making a gaming station using wooden planks and crates. The children worked together and shared the resources well. They also created an ice rink using the wood, working together and working as a team.

Some children created a water slide with balance materials 💦 They took it in turns to explore the slide and had great fun. This supports the development of large motor skills as well as encouraging problem solving and creativity. The children also demonstrated balance and co-ordination skills and supported each other throughout. Due to a weather warning, outdoors was not permitted at the end of the week for the safety and welfare of everyone 🌬

The staff at Mauchline ECC wish all our children and families a healthy and happy Christmas 🎄Stay safe and we can’t wait to see what 2024 has in store for us all 😀

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