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This week in the ECC we have been exploring all things Halloween. Focusing on fine motor skills there was some challenges set up where the children had to attempt to get the spiders from the webs using tweezers, scoop out eyeballs from the water tray and also design their own spiders. Many children explored a variety of Halloween stories in the ECC, sharing these with their peers.

Links to the Curriculum; Literacy, Science, Expressive Arts.

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Outdoors this week the children have been exploring sensory experiences using their senses- pumpkins 🎃.  They have also been exploring imaginative play through Halloween characters.

Most children were aware of the aspects of Halloween; fictional characters, creating spooky houses using the construction materials and exploring spooky tales 👻.

Links to the Curriculum; Literacy, Technology, Health and Well-being and Social Studies.

Thank you to all the parents who attended the ECC Halloween Stay and Play Sessions we hope you enjoyed 🎃.

ECC Halloween Party 🎃 👻

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This week in the ECC we have continued to explore the children’s interest of building and constructing their own designs. Further construction materials were added to provide depth in children’s learning.

In the creative area we have continued to create our own mosaic houses as well as exploring junk modelling where they are developing their manipulative skills.

Some of the children attended the community garden where they harvest the pumpkins that we had grown and are now decorating these which will be on display at the Community pumpkin trail on 1st November.

Links to the Curriculum; Technology, Science, Expressive Arts.

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The children have continued to explore different aspects of autumn. The children explored a sensory experience and made their own autumn playdough. Some children were interested in discussing the changes in the weather and what happens in autumn. Descriptive language was evident throughout.

Spontaneous learning this week the children created their own mud pies in the mud kitchen and have seemed to enjoy exploring in the water tray, exploring floating and sinking.

Links to the Curriculum; Science, Social Studies.

Have a lovely weekend everyone, Cara.

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This week in the ECC the children have been using ICT to explore the structural components acquired to build a house or a building. The children have been drawing their own building, incorporating different shapes and sizes. These are displayed on our ECC learning wall.
The children were also discussing the workers that may be involved to build a house and looking at different shaped roofs on houses. Many children were able to construct their own design of a house with detail.

Links to the Curriculum; Technology, Health and well-being, Literacy.

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The children were exploring the season of autumn, they created their own autumn tea using loose parts and natural materials.
Some children also explored printing using fir cones and a variety of autumn colours 🍂 .
Some children were using technology to investigate why the leaves turn brown and red in autumn.

Links to the Curriculum; Science, Technology, Expressive Arts.

Have  lovely October holiday everyone, Cara.

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This week in the ECC the children have been exploring the role of an architect in more detail, exploring floorplans, the roles of an architect and a builder. The children explored a variety of different buildings and the concepts of a building. This has expanded out to building famous landmarks in Scotland.

The children seemed to enjoy using google earth to search for their own house, using their sense of direction, street views of Mauchline and comparing their houses with their peers. The children were also interested in their door numbers and street names.

This week in the creative the children were exploring different textures and resources to design their own houses.

Links to the curriculum; Technology, Numeracy, Health and Wellbeing, Expressive Arts.

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This week outdoors the children continued to explore numbers outdoors where they were challenged in different activities and further developed their knowledge of numbers.

The children were exploring their physical skills in terms of risky play, they built their own obstacle course which explored balancing, turn taking, team work, perseverance, resilience and risk.

This was then extended using tyres where the children started then began designing and constructing their own tower, rockets and dens. This has been extended through staff support with measuring how tall each tower was.

Children also had the opportunity to explore pouring and filling, different textures and sharing/turn taking and waiting their turn.

We had a donation of horse shoes where the children began decorating them in order to create a fairy garden outdoors.

Links to the Curriculum; Health and Wellbeing, Numeracy, Technology, Science.

Have a lovely weekend everyone, Cara.