This week has been very busy in the ECC as we took part in health week! Well done to all the children who took part in our different themes each day⭐️

We had a visit from Vibrant Communities who had set up the gym hall with lots of fun spaces and activities to promote health week by keeping our body and minds active. 🍎 🏃🏼‍♀️ 🌸 The children had the opportunity to develop their sharing and turn taking skills at the different stations available such as the building blocks, snakes and ladders and connect four; these spaces promoted thinking and problem solving skills. The children especially enjoyed the bouncy slide where they developed their risk taking and gross motor skills as well as sharing space well.

For well-being Wednesday we had a special visitor who taught us tae-kwon-do. Michael visited the school to deliver a session on tae-where children demonstrated good listening skills and followed all instructions delivered. The children successfully participated in various techniques and strategies and were exploring counting in Korean 👏🏼

Curricular Areas; Health and Well-being, Social Studies, Numeracy

Potted Sports⚽️

Well done to all children who participated in our potted sports this week. It was lovely to have your parents, carers and siblings join us and to witness your valuable interactions with each other 😃

Indoors

Indoors this week we have been exploring animals which live in different habitats with our focus being jungle animals. We explored pattern through various creative activities. This then led onto the discussion of size comparison where we looked at the largest and smallest animals in the jungle. The children also created their own zoo and castle for their animals in the small world space and used the internet as a form of research.

Curricular Areas; Science, Social studies, Numeracy, Technology, Expressive Arts

Outdoors

Outdoors this week following children interest we have began exploring dinosaurs. We investigated different dinosaurs using the iPad and discussed the different sizes and features of dinosaurs including the largest and the smallest. Some children also using play dough and different shaped dinosaurs to create and discuss fossils. We also explored size comparison and took part in creating our own footprints using paint.

Curricular Areas; Health and Well-being, Science, Social Studies, Numeracy, Technology, Expressive Arts

Hope everyone has a lovely weekend!
Beth☺️

This week we took part in Science week where the focus was how things change and adapt over time. We explored different concepts such as how places change and adapt over time, how our bodies and looks change as we grow, how insects change through the story of the hungry caterpillar and how technology has changed. The children enjoyed learning some history of Mauchline, exploring what spaces used to look like via the internet and how our schooling has changed by exploring our school archives. We also had some vintage items brought in for us to explore and recognise what we use today compared to them.

Outdoors we have continued to explore traditional stories as well as developing our listening and attention skills through team games, ring games and working together to build and take turns when climbing.

During Woodland Wednesday, the children explored different areas of their environment, building upon road safety skills and developing curiosity about what we seen, heard and touched,  the children really enjoyed looking for their own stones and sticks to create stick man. The children experienced different terrain such as stone, mud and grass and had opportunities to climb. The children developed their confidence with exploring and staying safe, following instructions well throughout the experience.

have a lovely weekend everyone☺️
beth x

This week we have continued to explore “under the sea” using the promethean board to search for sea monsters. Some of the children were able to identify the bloop, the megladon and different sharks.

An under the sea den was made to support children to role play with the different kinds of fish and begin to learn about their roles within the sea, ie sharks eat smaller fish.

We have also been looking at what lives above the sea and experimented with fish magnets to collect number ducks enhancing number recognition.

Parents/carers were invited to a bookbug session to celebrate world book day. They heard the story of THE COW WHO FELL TO EARTH, and sang nursery rhymes as well as use the shiny cover to jump bookbug to the moon.

On Thursday we went on a book hunt around the school to see the decorated doors of the classrooms. We concluded that our door of THE SHARK IN THE PARK was the best.

This week outdoors we have been exploring traditional stories through role play. In the mud kitchen we made some porridge, we used our imagination with loose parts to add the ingredients together, we did well in sharing our ingredients and turn taking.

The children also explored their construction and problem solving skills by creating a bridge from the three Billy goats gruff, they discussed how safe the bridge was and changed the bricks to make it less wobbly.

Have a lovely weekend everyone

Beth☺️

In preparation for book week next week we made a display for our door of our author of the month NICK SHARRAT who wrote The Shark In The Park.

PLEASE CHECK OUT THE NEWSLETTER ON LEARNING JOURNALS AND DISPLAY AT FRONT DOOR FOR BOOK WEEK ACTIVITIES NEXT WEEK.

Have a good weekend

Lynnette x

We welcomed our special visitors from the HMie team who spent the week exploring our ECC and spending time with the children. Information from our visit will be published in due course.

INDOORS

Continuing to explore buildings using problem solving skills with a new resource of sand mixed with shaving foam, allowed children to be creative and extend the knowledge they have been building on.

Children have shown an interest through not only buildings but the construction of boats and using technology to explore further showing what lives in the sea. Next week we will continue to explore boats and the creatures of the sea.

In creative the children have been using different materials to build with junk, experimenting and investigating what sticks best. This has involved using scissors, glue sticks, pva glue, masking tape, sellotape etc.

CfE – EA, science, technology, literacy, numeracy

OUTDOORS

Lots of experimenting and marking has happened outdoors. Paint and paper was used for children to explore pattern and print using their feet, looking at the different wellington boot markings. Children started using  the sand+shaving foam outside before transferring the skills inside making impressive buildings. They continued to develop large motor skills using bikes and learning more about how the body moves. Children took part in ring games such as duck duck goose. New car number plates have been introduced which has created a lot of talk about recognising familiar numbers to themselves as in their age.

CfE – science, literacy, numeracy, HWB

Events to look out for are based around WORLD BOOK WEEK see learning journals and displays for further information.

Have a good weekend

Lynnette x