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The children have been working as part of a team to construct their own designs and were able to utilise their problem solving and imaginative skills throughout. Their designs were amazing!

This week in the creative area the children have been making their own world cup flags using a variety of different materials. The children were discussing the different countries, the culture behind the different countries and the different patterns they see in the flags.

During our STEM session this week the children revisited electricity and were able to discuss what is safe and unsafe. They were identifying signs within the school where the use of electricity was evident. The children then created their own posters to put around the school to raise awareness of keeping safe whist using electricity.

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Outdoors this week the children have been working as a team to construct their own obstacle courses as part of physical play. Some children were also able to use their imagination and work as a team to build robot men using a variety of loose parts materials. The children were also observed exploring in the mud kitchen using herbs and spices.

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Indoors this week the children began exploring families. Recognising different types of families and different people within a family. They began looking at the concept of looking after a baby – bathing them, changing and feeding. The children also displayed great turn taking and sharing skills with the different baby resources. The children explored the small world space by creating their own houses. The children listened to stories surrounding families and shared their own experiences. 

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Huge thank you to the parent council for hosting a world cup fun day today, everyone thoroughly enjoyed it.

All children enjoyed getting into the football spirit with dancing and singing throughout the day. They even enjoyed a world cup themed lunch too.

All children created their own Scotland themed empire biscuit today to enjoy as a social situation at snack.

Links to the Curriculum; Health and Wellbeing, Social Studies, Expressive Arts.

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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.