We have now completed three full weeks into our new term where almost all of our children are beginning to settle into the ECC routine. Almost all parents/carers have had the opportunity to meet with key workers to complete care and planning plans. If you haven’t had this opportunity then please see your child’s key worker as soon as possible

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The learning that has taken place within the playroom has been rhyming words and nursery rhymes.  The children have had the opportunity to role play their favourite nursery rhymes using puppets, story spoons, dressing up. They have been creative using dough and cutters leading towards rhymes  such as twinkle twinkle little star or 5 little ducks went swimming. Within the creative area the children continue to explore a wide range of collage and paints  enabling them to express themselves creatively.

Our numeracy focus this month is MNU: EXPLORING NUMBERS, UNDERSTANDING THAT THEY REPRESENT QUANTITIES AND ICAN USE THEM TO COUNT CREATE SEQUENCES AND DESCRIBE ORDER. Children have the opportunity to use the resources in our numeracy area allowing them to explore this concept and challenge themselves too.

Outdoors has been super busy due to the dry weather and the interest here has been building humpty dumptys  wall using construction blocks. Exploring the rhyme Miss polly using dolls and doctors equipment encouraging sharing and an opportunity to build relationships. Towards the end of the week children used paint and chalk to represent the song “I can sing a rainbow”.

Health week

Busy week within the ECC this week celebrating health week.

Indoors we explored healthy foods and have a veg shop set up for imaginative play, this also led to exploring money and the value of coins.

Children created their own eat well plates in the creative area sharing their knowledge and interpretation of what they think is healthy foods. Also children used mirrors to talk about their feelings and were able to make self portrait.

Outdoors, Jan our HWB champion led the children in a variety of activities daily to support exercise and well-being.

We also had a few visitors through the week PC McPike, active schools and children took part in “potted sports”  with help from p6 buddies.

Remember ECC is closed Friday 26th, Monday 29th and Tuesday 30th. We will reopen Wednesday 31st May.

Have a fab weekend

Lynnette x

Indoor learning

Children have taken a real interest in bugs following on from our visitor on Friday. They have been exploring all kinds of insects from spiders to millipedes and made an imaginary bug hotel to role play indoors.

Some  children have been investigating the life cycle of bugs and how they stay alive. They have been using their scrap books to explore literacy and their drawings.

CURRICULAR AREAS –  SCN, HWB, MNU, LITERACY.

Within the creative area children have been using craft materials to represent their own bugs, looking at how many kegs they have, the pattern of their skin to name a few learning skills. This has been in both craft and dough.

CURRICULAR AREA – EXA, SCN, HWB, MNU, RME

Outdoor Learning

Almost all children have continued to show an interest in how to look after a baby and with the weather being slightly warmer this week they got the opportunity to bath their babies and share their knowledge with each other.

They have also continued using the construction but instead of towers they have been exploring obstacle courses again using knowledge they have gained from previous learning. They were still keen to use the measuring resources too.

CURRICULAR AREA –  HWB, MNU, RME, LIT, SOC

WOODS

We have completed our den building task up the woods where all 3 groups were challenged to build a shelter to have their snack. Each group did a different den and built up life long skills doing so.

Play & stay session are next week so check board at entrance for your day! Monday is RED group.

have fun weekend, Lynnette x

PLAYROOM

Indoors the children continued to learn about dinosaurs. With a focus on dinosaur skeletons and  what dinosaurs eat. Children took part in looking at the different sizes of dinosaurs feet and compared them with the sizes of their own feet. A display was made that is on the ECC playroom wall. Children used technology to research dinosaurs and to consolidate their previous learning.

Social studies, technology,  literacy, maths and numeracy.

CREATIVE AREA

In the creative area children made a 3-D dinosaur using boxes, paint and glue. Look out for the dinosaur appearing in our reception area in the ECC soon!!!!!!!!!

OUTDOORS

Outdoors children focused on spatial awareness where they used bikes, jumping spots and small cars to learn about direction and where it was safe to go. Children explored  spacehoppers as well to follow direction.

Health and well-being, RME

This week we had pancake Tuesday and for lunch we ate pancakes with fruit and ice cream that the children really enjoyed.

Have a great weekend and enjoy the dry weather by getting outdoors which helps ALL mental well-being.

Lynnette 🥰

What a busy week we have had!!
Children have  continued to explore nursery rhymes and stories leading into Christmas where they decorated the ECC tree. This led to transient art with loose parts.

CFE – Social

During HWB time children listened to Pantosaurus and learned rules about pants and then made their own pants.

CFE – HWB

During Outdoor play they explored “The Three Little Pigs” and used loose parts and lots of imagination when retelling the story.

CFE – LITERACY & SOCIAL

Towards the end of the week they have been practising hard for our ECC concert next FRIDAY 9th December please check the school app for up and coming dates.

Have a good weekend,
Lynnette

                                 November 2022                 

When we are exploring outdoors as an adult, do we really use our senses to fully experience its wonder!!!!!!!!!!!!

Children are much better than us at taking time to fully appreciate our environment.

So over the month of November I would like you to try take time to stand still with your child outdoors and use your senses:

 Look

Listen

 Smell

 Touch (if appropriate)

 Taste (if appropriate)

Your task is to note one thing for each sense that you notice and one thing for each sense that your child notices.

E.g.          I saw a bird

                I heard a siren.

               I smelt fireworks

               I touched leaves.

               I tasted ice-cream

You will be surprised at what differences you may find. Please upload your findings to your child’s learning journals or send email to:

lynnette.cook@eastayrshire.org.uk

Hope you have fun!

Lynnette (Outdoor Champion)

This week has been super busy with celebrating Halloween 🎃👻 We have continued to explore the autumnal changes by incorporating our treasure hunt findings into our ECC learning experiences. Thank you to everyone that took part, we hope it was an enjoyable experience and we have enjoyed seeing everyone’s pictures and exploring what was found🍂🍁 We also had our Halloween stay and play this week which was lots of fun, we loved showing our families what learning takes place in the ECC. Playing in the slime was a favourite this week⭐️

Links to the curriculum; Technology, Social Studies, Expressive Arts, Health and Well-being

In the creative area we have been exploring Halloween and using different paints and collage materials to create ghosts, spiders, pumpkins etc.🎨🧑‍🎨

Links to the curriculum; Expressive Arts

Outdoors this week we have been making potions in the water tray and tuft spot, we have been mixing messy materials together and discussing the different textures, colours and smells. We have also been enjoying ‘what’s the time Mr Wolf’ where we  have to use our listening skills, counting and jumping skills.🐺⏰

Links to the curriculum; Numeracy, Science, Health and Well-being

To everyone celebrating Halloween tonight and over the weekend/Monday, stay safe and have lots of fun🎃👻

Beth

Summer is well and truly over in relation to weather!

Within the playroom we have been exploring the change in the season. Children have been investigating nocturnal animals such as squirrels and finding out some facts using natural materials and the promethean board.

curricular area TECHNOLOGY, HWB, LITERACY.

Within the creative area children investigated sunflower heads that one of the returning children brought in. They had grown from the seeds children planted before the summer. We used them as a prop to be creative.

Curricular area SOCIAL STUDIES

An autumn tree was created too exploring the colours of autumn and range of creative materials.

curricular area EXPRESSIVE & AESTHETIC, SCIENCE.

OUTDOOR

The weather wasn’t the kindest to us this week but children being children still enjoyed going out. They continued to build knowledge of number doing hop scotch and using wooden number blocks.

Lots of encouragement was given this week to dressing and undressing for outdoors and self selecting their own suits.

curricular area NUMERACY, HEALTH & WELLBEING.

Gentle reminder we close on FRIDAY 14th for October holidays, normal pick up time 2.45pm.

Have good weekend, Lynnette x