Our last week before the summer holidays has been filled with lots of fun and laughter.

Our ECC beach party was a great success 🏝️ ☀️ 🕶️

🩷 What a great cause & well done to all involved🩷

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This week in the ECC the children have been learning about the different types of flowers you may find in your garden and what flowers and plants need to grow 🌸 🪴 The children were also planting community sunflowers which are almost ready to go out to be delivered to residents within the local community 🌻

Links to the Curriculum; Science, Health and Well-being, Literacy & Numeracy.

Today some of the children from the ECC visited Ellisland court to share their learning with the residents.

The ECC will be running PEEP sessions from Tuesday 6th June at 10-11am for 4 weeks. Please see poster attached for information in regards to the PEEP sessions.

PEEP POSTER

Please see link attached below with further information in regards to what PEEP sessions are;

Peep Introduction Session

Peep Learning Together is a parenting programme that helps:

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If you wish to sign up to the PEEP Sessions please complete the forms questionnaire below. Any further questions contact the ECC.

It’s been a busy week in the ECC.⭐️ Indoors we have been looking at road safety and the green cross code. We continued to explore small world, using vehicles and road signs through play.  We made some road signs in the art area as well as recognising what senses we need to use whilst out and about.

Curricular areas; Health and Well-being, Expressive Arts, Numeracy

Whenever we go to woods or explore the community we make sure to sing our song when crossing the street.
🎶Stop, look and listen.
Before you cross the street.
Use your eyes, use your ears.
Before you use your feet!🎶

In the art area, whilst creating road signs, we started discussing shape and used various shape objects to create pictures. We are all becoming a lot more confident with shape recognition.

Curricular area; Expressive Arts, Numeracy

Outdoors we have been able exploring den building and construction. This links into our trips to the woods and also our interest in camping. We began incorporating animals into our play and making houses for them.

Curricular Areas; Health and Well-being, Numeracy, Technologies

WEEKLY CHALLENGE

Hope everyone has a lovely weekend⭐️

Beth

Good morning,

I have attached a link to our ECC Improvement Plan Survey and would really appreciate it if you could please take the time to complete this survey as your views are important to us.

https://forms.office.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=oyzTzM4Wj0KVQTctawUZKWlfyA4S1bVOnEvUp2R1HEhUNE44N05aNkNNNjA4QVIzSzVXVFRGTzVZWS4u

Thank you, Cara.

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.

This week we have continued exploring birds after the RSPB National bird watch weekend 🦅 The children continued to show interest in bird watching both indoors and outdoors. Some children explored data analysis through creating bar charts based on the information gained from our watch. Indoors, the children also created their own birds by using collage materials.

Curricular areas – Science, Numeracy, Expressive Arts

Outdoors

The children have been exploring water play outdoors, specifically looking at measurement and floating and sinking.Also they have shown interest in building houses and obstacle courses developing their problem solving, imagination and gross motor skills.

Curricular areas – HWB, Science, Technologies

We have uploaded to journals our monthly challenge and our rhyme of the month! We would love to see you all taking part in these.

Have a lovely weekend, Beth☺️

Big welcome back to everyone at Mauchline ECC we hope you all had a lovely Christmas and a Happy New Year 2️⃣0️⃣2️⃣3️⃣

This week we’ve began focusing on people who help us-fire fighters and exploring in our very own fire station. The children have been using their imagination whilst role playing as fire fighters and the dangers within the role 🔥. We would be very grateful if any parents who have any knowledge or experience of being a fire fighter, would like to get involved with the children’s learning at the ECC we would really appreciate it.

Curriculum for Excellence links; Social Studies, Literacy, Expressive Arts, Technology.

If you haven’t already done so please choose a time to schedule your child’s personal plan review and these will be held in person in the ECC- see learning journal for more information.

Have a lovely weekend everyone, Cara.