ECC Learning Week Commencing 22.1.24-26.1.24

January 26, 2024 Mrs Slater Leave a comment

Outdoor Learning

With 2 storms in 1 week outdoor learning has been tricky but we have still managed to access the outdoor learning environment when it was safe to do so. The children took part in a risk assessment to assess the damage from the storm and helped clear up and branches the wind had blown into our playground.

Outdoor Challenge:

The children have been enjoying some new resources for our water area and they were set a challenge to hit all 4 targets with water using the syringe. Some children were able to work out how to hit the furthest away target but projecting the water with more force. We also measured the distance the water travelled by counting how many steps it took to reach a target.

Links to the curriculum: Science, Numeracy, Technology.

Indoor Learning

At the beginning of the week we had a wonderful visit from Kay, a professional Highland Dancer who has performed in the Edinburgh tattoo. Kay has been all over the world dancing and was very excited to visit us. The children asked Kay questions about her dancing and her beautiful costume then we were able to learn some traditional highland dance moves. We were all delighted to watch Kay dancing for us and had lots of fun learning the dance moves.

Links to curriculum: Expressive Arts, Social Studies.

In the music room we used the dance moves that Kay taught us and we also learned a traditional Scottish Reel.

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿This week we have been continuing to learn more about Scotland and how we Scottish celebrate Robert Burns’ Birthday. We have been using the Promethian Board and the iPad to search for information to build on our knowledge of who Robert Burns is and we also carried out research by asking adults and children in the primary school to share their knowledge of Rabbie Burns with us.

We have been busy practising our poem ‘In My Wee Rid Motor’ and on Thursday we got the chance to perform to the primary 7 children who really enjoyed it. Then it was our turn to be the audience as the Primary 7 children performed “To A Louse” by Robert Burns for us.

Links to curriculum: Literacy, Social Studies, Expressive arts.

RSPB BIRDWATCH

Don’t forget this weekend we are taking part in the RSPB BIRDWATCH 2024. Can you spend an hour with your child looking and counting the birds you see? It can be in your garden, at the park or out a walk. Check out your child’s learning journal for more info. Remember to put out some bird food to encourage the birds to your garden and look after them this winter. We’ll look forward to hearing how you get on.

Happy Bird Watching Everyone!

Jen x

ECC Learning Week Commencing 15.1.24-19.1.24

January 19, 2024 Miss Phillips Leave a comment

I n d o o r s 😊

This week in the ECC we have been exploring Scottish Castles🏰🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 The children began learning about Scottish castles and explored when they were built, how they were built and what they were used for. We even had a look at the castle in Disneyland. The children have been building on their enquiry skills, help to understand how people from different cultures used to live and comparing and contrasting the world today and the past. The children were also using technology to explore castles and find out useful information.

The children have also been exploring shapes and creating their own mosaic castles.

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

Beginning to explore Scottish dancing within the ECC and we are having a special guest attending the ECC next week- a highland dancer from Aileen Robertson School of Highland dance to perform to the children 🕺.

C r e a t i v e A r e a 😊

In the creative area we have been exploring the work of an artist, Steven brown art and we even created our own McCoo and the children named it May McCoo 🐮

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

O u t d o o r s 🧊

In the outdoor area the children have been exploring the changing of the weather and the properties of ice 🧊. The children also participated in numeracy challenges outdoors.

Links to the Curriculum; Numeracy, Science, Technology.

Hope everyone has a lovely weekend, Cara 😊.

Welcome back to term 3 and 2024.

January 12, 2024 Lynnette Cook Leave a comment

Week beginning 8th January 2024

We are beginning to explore Scotland in the ECC.🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿We have watched some videos of highland dancing and began to copy the moves, we discussed the type of clothing dancers wear and where they might perform, leading us to discussion of Edinburgh Castle🏰.

Children have been using a small world castle to role play using their imagination and a selection of Scottish, tartan dress up clothes to support increasing knowledge of their own country.

Building our own Scottish castles🏰🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 in our Scottish highlands imaginative area working on gross motor and team work skills.

Leading up to Robert Burns day we will be exploring Scottish songs and rhymes and learning a Scottish poem “The wee rid motor”, a copy of the words have been put on learning journals.

Creatively children have been exploring the saltire flag of Scotland using craft materials. Whilst learning all about Scotland the country we live in, we used our imagination and creativity skills and created her own Scotland flag 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 with the playdough.

Outdoors we have been exploring the Scottish weather which this week has been frost and ice. Children have been experimenting how to extract ice from the equipment and then see how small they can make it. Conversation led to discussion where we may find ice and interest has led to mountains. We will continue to explore more about Scottish mountains and our weather through play.