INDOORS:

This week the children have been focusing on writing their names and listening to the initial sound of their name and other familiar words, where they were able to explore this during a variety of activities. They have also been creating their own stories about “Starting School” copying the words and drawing their own illustrations. We have continued to explore stories about starting school and talk about how we feel going into Primary 1. Some children continued to explore number and learn about the concept of time in our “Maths Area.”

Indoor Learning:

Continuing our interest in Space the children created their own space costumes using a variety of materials and boxes, they also made spaceships and rockets with construction resources, sharing their ideas. They explored books and gained information from the iPad when investigating all about planets. We read the story “Aliens Love Underpants” which was enjoyed by everyone and the children were matching, sorting and creating their own underpants, which they found really amusing 😊.  This is now going to link in with our Health and Wellbeing topic where the children will hear the story “Pantosaurus and the Power of Pants”, all about a dinosaur who has a problem at school and his super pants give him the power to speak up,  encouraging children to have conversations about keeping themselves safe.

In the art and craft area the children have been continuing to colour mix showing their knowledge and understanding about how two or more colours mixed together can create a different colour and which is their favourite.  🔴🟡🔵🟣🟠.  They have enjoyed the playdough where they have been creating their own planets, stars, space rockets and Aliens. 🪐⭐️🚀👽

Links to curriculum: Expressive Arts, Technology, Literacy, Health and Wellbeing

Outdoor Learning:

The children have been engaged in the construction area, using thinking and problem solving skills to create different houses  with their peers. The houses had walls, windows and doorways. We explored risky play as we had to figure out a way to keep our house from falling and we used our safety skills to manoeuvre loose parts. 🏠 👷👷‍♀️.  We also created our own hurdles and challenged ourselves to how high we could jump.

Some of the children headed down to the  Community Garden to plant our pumpkins that we started to grow in the ECC and learned some more about how to look after them, they worked together as a team to transfer the little plants into our large planter. We will be visiting the garden often to check on our plants and look after them. 🎃🎃

Indoor learning:

This week the children have continued to explore animal habitats and construct models of them independently, showing the knowledge they have gained in their learning.  They enjoyed a lotto game matching the animals to their homes.

They have also began exploring Easter, listening to Easter stories and  learning songs using the Promethian Board. They have been dressing up in the Imaginative area, enjoying the Easter/Spring costumes.

Number recognition and formation writing has been a focus indoors and the children are showing their writing skills ready for P1.

In the art and craft area the children have been creating their own pictures of jungle animals and are continuing to make lovely patterns of colour and shape. They also explored the Easter Bunny story and drew their own Easter Bunnies, some children also used their cutting skills when making their pictures.

On Monday we went our Community Walk, it was very wet so we were all dressed for the weather in our waterproofs and wellies, we turned left going out the school and went up to the Hilltop where we used our binoculars to look down into Mauchline and beyond, we also looked for birds and insects. There was a lot of road signs to see and we were very good at using our road safety rules of stop ✋ look 👀 and listen 👂.

They have been exploring planets, where they learned the names of them and were practising their dribbling skills going in and out the planets. They have also been using their problem solving skills when making “jet packs” ….what materials to use, how to stick them together and how to fasten them onto their backs???

Outdoor learning…..we have continued to explore construction and den building. We have created our own houses, gaming rooms ,slides and bridges. We have also been extending our learning about capacity in the mud kitchen and water tray. The children have shown an interest in ring games and have worked hard on their team building skills.

At the woods we are continuing to work on our problem solving skills, decision making and risk assessing. This week we have started to explore insects. 🐛🐞🪳.

Indoors…..In the art area the children have been recognising the initial letter in their name through environmental print, stampers and dough  moulds. They having been using their name cards to help with letter recognition.

The children are beginning to learn all about animal habitats and have been using  the Promethian Board to research this. They have also been creating their own animal stories, being the author and illustrator.  The “Curiosity Case” has been popular with the children where they have been exploring a variety of items like magnets, torches, a laptop and talking clipboards.

Just a wee reminder that Thursday 7th March is “World Book Day” and the children can wear their pyjamas to promote bedtime reading or a costume of their favourite character.

Thankyou to the parents who have volunteered to come into the ECC and read a story to the children.

Have a lovely weekend everyone.

Jan.

Indoor Learning

The children have been busy writing letters to Santa and creating patterns to make their own wrapping paper. They have been using the Christmas cutters in the dough area to make shape cookies, they were discussing the different shapes and selling them in their Christmas Cafe. The children have been focusing on how Christmas is celebrated in different countries around the world and the meaning behind advent. On Thursday the children wore their Christmas jumpers and enjoyed a Christmas lunch in the dining hall.

Curricular Areas: Health and Well-being, Expressive Arts, RME

Outdoor Learning

This week the children who have been outdoors have been using their  imagination to build a boat and travel to South America, using the iPad to find different countries and how far away they are. They had fun exploring the frost and ice, using warm water to make patterns and write on the ice and watching it melt. They also made Christmas lights using paint and talking about the length of their lights, being long and short. Some of the children made bird feeders to take to the woods during their Woodland Wednesday visit, whilst at the woods they listened to a story that explored senses and explored the change in weather❄️

We would like to thank everyone who came along to our Christmas sing-a-long this morning, we hope you all enjoyed it and were as proud of the children as we were. 🎅🏼👏👏😊

Have a lovely weekend everyone 🎅🏼🤗

Jan

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This week indoors the children have began to explore Jungle animals. We have been using technology, ie iPads and Promethean Board to find out information about what animals live in the Jungle.

In the art area we have been exploring animal patterns of stripes, spots etc. using a variety of media like paint and collage.

Outdoors we are learning about Health and Hygiene…how to wash ourselves and our clothes using dolls and child size clothes. We are also starting to match numbers using natural resources and have been pairing up the socks we have washed.

Next week is STEM week and we will be exploring a variety of activities in the ECC. We are also having a visit from one of our parents who is a micro biologist 👨‍🔬

Have a lovely weekend everyone

Jan 😊

Outdoor learning:

This week we have been working as a team to design and construct different buildings….we made houses, a Pizzeria and a water station we also used a variety of materials like shaving foam as cement.

Curricular areas: Health and Well-being, Technology, Expressive Arts.

We also identified 2d shapes in the garden and used them to build a castle.

Curricular areas: Maths/Numeracy.

Indoor Learning:

We have been exploring different species of dinosaurs and their habitats and looking at fossils, bones and teeth. We have been researching and investigating through ICT using the Promethian Board.

Curricular Areas: Expressive Arts, Science, Technology.

Hope everyone has a lovely holiday weekend. Don’t forget our Stem challenge of the month, we’d love to see you taking part, all information on Learning Journals.

ECC reopens on Thursday 16th February.

See you all then

Jan 😊

Outdoors: The children have been continuing with measurement/volume during water play.

Supertato has been a big hit, the children made their own Supertato hero which they were all very proud of. They had to try and save him as he was frozen in ice by Evil Pea,they tried melting the ice with hot and salty water and hitting it with a spade

The children were also playing ring games and working together.

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

Indoors:  The children have been continuing  with rhyming words through songs and games and also odd one out. They have been exploring the new emotions mirror which they are now beginning to access independently on a daily basis.

In the creative area the children have been self selecting paint and creating Christmas crafts for the Fayre.

The Christmas fayre is on Friday 25th November from 6.30pm, hopefully you can come along with your child and enjoy the festivities and the childrens enterprise goods.

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

Have a lovely weekend everyone. 🥰

Jan.