𝕀𝕟𝕕𝕠𝕠𝕣𝕤

This week we celebrated Halloween by dressing up and enjoying our ECC party 🎉 Well done to all the children as their costumes were amazing 😊 We enjoyed some party games and dancing before having a special treat that was very kindly donated by the parent council 👻🎃🍭

𝚌𝚞𝚛𝚛𝚒𝚌𝚞𝚕𝚊𝚛 𝚊𝚛𝚎𝚊𝚜: Expressive arts, RME

As we are beginning to learn about ‘The human body’ 💀 Some children used the promethean board to investigate various aspects of the body and explore the skeletal body and it’s structure. 🦴 We have been exploring the different names of our bones and creating our own skeleton images using various materials. We also have investigated some real X-ray images of bones and will continue to explore this in the coming weeks.

𝚌𝚞𝚛𝚛𝚒𝚌𝚞𝚕𝚊𝚛 𝚊𝚛𝚎𝚊𝚜: Health and well-being, technologies, literacy

𝕆𝕦𝕥𝕕𝕠𝕠𝕣𝕤

Outdoors this week the children have been exploring the importance of keeping our bodies healthy and discussing different ways in which we can support this, including exercise. We have been exploring the changes that take place in our body pre and post workout including the rhythm of our hearts. We have also been using chalk to draw around each other and some children enjoyed discussing our organs, identifying various body part’s and their purpose 🧠🫁🫀👁👂👄

𝚌𝚞𝚛𝚛𝚒𝚌𝚞𝚕𝚊𝚛 𝚊𝚛𝚎𝚊𝚜: Health and well-being, literacy, numeracy

We hope you all have a wonderful weekend and see you Monday 🤗

We have had a very busy week at Mauchline ECC.⭐️

P1 bump up day was on Tuesday where the children got to meet their new classmates and have some time with their teacher. We also got to meet some of the boys and girls starting with us in August! An exciting day for all🥰 Graduation took place on Thursday with our families celebrating our achievement.👩‍🎓🧑‍🎓

Outdoors this week we have been continuing to explore positional language, creating our own houses for animals to live in, beside, on top of etc. We have also been enjoying the sunshine in which the sand and water play has been a favourite.

Curricular Areas – Numeracy, Health and Well-being

Indoors we are looking at the four modes of transport; road, air, sea and rail. This week we have focussed on road transport and began creating tally and bar charts to find out how the children travel to the ECC. Some children created their own stories after expressing interest in books. We will continue to develop this in exploring initial sounds and letter formation.

Curricular Areas – Numeracy, Health and Well-being, Literacy

We are so proud of our children, they all did fantastic during graduation and we are so excited for their P1 journey.⭐️

Have a lovely weekend everyone and make sure to stay safe in the sun!

Beth⭐️

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Indoors this week the children have been developing and exploring our shop 🏬  This provides children with the opportunity to develop their imaginative skills through drama whilst applying real life experiences in play 🛒  The children enjoyed exploring the role of the shopkeeper and we have been exploring and discussing money and it’s purpose 💳🪙  Some children designed and created signs for the shop including price labels and information signs 🪧

Week beginning 13.03.23

This week the children have been exploring a range of activities relating to STEM in celebration of STEM week 🧪 🖥 👷‍♀️ 🧮

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Science,_technology,_engineering,_and_mathematics

Exploring soil 🍃

As we have been focusing on the Jungle, we began looking at the jungle floor layers and their purpose. We looked at the soil specifically and how it give plant life nutrients and then we created our own terrariums to show the different layers and how it looks. We created these using various glass containers. We will be looking at these on a daily basis to discover if there is any insect life or new plant life 🐜 

Science!
The name comes from the Latin terra (“earth”) + atrium (a place or receptacle) Like an aquarium for plants and earth instead of fish and water.

We later planted some vegetable seeds and herbs in the garden after really enjoying our terrarium building 🌱

We also had a special visitor in the ECC this week. Dr Kelly and Miss Thomson are parents within the centre who specialises in science. They prepared a fantastic experience for us which included learning about bugs/insects. We explored mean bugs and superhero bugs, to understand which bugs help us and which we should avoid. We got to use special microscopes from the university and explored different samples. The children throughly enjoyed this experience and we thank Dr Kelly and Miss Thomson for their involvement and help in STEM week ⭐️ 

We ended our week with our STEM awards ceremony where everyone was recognised for their part during the week 👏 💫

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In relation to STEM week, everyone had the opportunity to participate in our outdoor challenge 🧱 The children were set the challenge of using multiple resources to create a tower of height. They then had to use various measuring objects to calculate who had created the tallest tower before recording their findings on our whiteboard. The children discussed numbers, sizes and ordering of numerals. The winner of the highest tower was awarded a special certificate for their achievement 😊

Hope you all have a fantastic weekend and take care,

Lisa 😊

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This week the children have been exploring a range of celebrations and traditions. On Monday we celebrated Chinese New Year by using our ICT promethean board to investigate the cultural celebration and it’s purpose 🐉 The children were provided with opportunities to explore some other traditions including a dragon dance/parade and making Chinese lanterns in our creative area      🔥🕯️

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 𝗕𝘂𝗿𝗻’𝘀 𝗗𝗮𝘆 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

All children have been practicing to learn and recite our burns poem ‘Ma hawf sookit sweetie’ 🍭Well done to you all for your hard work and effort 💫 We celebrated Robert Burns day on 25th January by listening to some Scottish music and exploring Scotland flags in our creative area. We also had the opportunity to taste some Haggis, neeps and tatties at lunch with a surprise visit from ‘Supertattie’ himself 🙊🦸🏼‍♂️🥔

𝔹𝕚𝕣𝕕 𝕨𝕒𝕥𝕔𝕙𝕚𝕟𝕘 🐦

27.01.23 is the first day of RSPB National bird watch weekend 🦅 Some children enjoyed looking for birds using binoculars in our garden and the surrounding areas. Others also created their own binoculars to explore and investigate. The children used a tally chart to record their sightings and will be exploring this further next week.

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Outdoors this week the children have been exploring the Artic and other habitats 🧊 We have been investigating the animals that live within the artic and the effects of climate change and how this may affect their living conditions 🐻‍❄️ The children have been using ICT and technology to research and find out information relating to this.

Have a great weekend and take care,

Lisa 😊

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This week the children have been enjoying some new loose parts materials in the home corner 🪵🪨🧱 They have been inventing recipes using the resources available, helping to develop creative skills by encouraging use of imagination and experimenting freely.

Some of the children also enjoyed creating ‘puffy’ paint monsters 😈

How do you make puffy paint? 🎨  Please find below a link with an example of how to make puffy paint at home ✨

https://onelittleproject.com/how-to-make-puffy-paint/

𝕊𝕋𝔼𝕄

(𝕊cience, 𝕋echnology, 𝔼ngineering, 𝕄athematics)

All children were provided with the opportunity to participate in two STEM experiments this week 🧪 We discussed the autumnal changes that is currently taking place, including the changes in leaves as well as the changes in weather. The children explored a wind tunnel experiment and a rain cloud experiment and enjoyed the process 🔬

We have also been exploring ICT this week and using the iPad to explore online activities beneficial to children’s learning 💻

Links to the curriculum;

Science, Technology, Expressive Arts

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Outdoors this week the children have been discussing the changes between day and night ☀️ 🌚 As the clocks changed last week, we have been discussing the time sequences that take place throughout the day and events that we link to our wider world 🌎

Some children have been exploring our outdoor water tray where they have been measuring using funnels to create Dragons brew 🐉 This encourages development of imaginative skills through story telling and role play.

Links to the curriculum;

Expressive arts, Science, Maths and Numeracy

Have a lovely weekend and if you are celebrating bonfire night please stay safe 🔥

ℕ𝕠𝕧𝕖𝕞𝕓𝕖𝕣 𝕥𝕠𝕡 𝕥𝕚𝕡 🗯

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As it is the 1st of November, it’s time to introduce our rhyme of the month. This month our rhyme is ‘Teddy Bear, Teddy Bear’ 🧸

Can you please practice the rhyme at home 🏡

We would love for you to send us a video of you practicing with the actions 🕺Why not include your favourite teddy bear ☺️🧸 🕺

Please ask a grown up to video your rhyme and email it to: lisa.mathieson@eastayrshire.org.uk

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Well done to everyone that took part in last month’s challenge and created a rain shaker ☔️ They we’re all fantastic 👏

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Indoors this week, the children have been super busy learning all about farm animals 🐱🐹🐰🐴🐖🐓🐑 They have enjoyed exploring our wooden farm resources & animals and discussed their favourite animals throughout 🤎

We have also been using books and the promethean board to investigate where milk comes from as well as fruit and vegetables 🥗🥕🌽

All children have been provided with multiple opportunities to explore shapes and numbers throughout the play room and have been developing their imaginations through small world play  🔵🟥

*Our library also started back up this week 📚 Please return all books on a Wednesday to allow us rotation on a weekly basis 📖

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Outdoors this week the children have been following a new photo stick system 📸 The system allows the children to find their picture stick and take it outdoors, helping to keep themselves safe. This allows staff to monitor which children are indoors and outdoors, which is valuable in the event of an emergency.

Most children have also been exploring our new sand pit 👏 This has been a great success and all children have loved being creative with the sand and it’s resources. Some children have also helped to revamp our outdoor surroundings as we are continually trying to better our resources and the area 🌿🍂

Have a great weekend 🤩