This week in the Main Playroom the children have been exploring different traditions for Christmas and finding out the true meaning behind Christmas 🎅🏼  🎄

RME/ Literacy

This week in the Art area the children have been making gingerbread men. We have been focusing on the story of the Gingerbread man and making our own song.

We have also been Creating our own Christmas biscuits 🍪 🎅The children have been exploring the play dough and creating Christmas biscuits to sell in our Christmas shop 🏬

Expressive Arts/ Literacy

This week on outdoors the children have been continuing to explore distance through mathematical language. We set a challenge to see who could make the sleigh travel the furthest 🛷.

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

Indoor learning

This week we created our very own Elf Workshop indoors🎁. We explored different skills in this area such as development of our fine motor skills through cutting, developing hand eye co-ordination and exploring different shapes and sizes with the wrapping paper. We also created our own shop at the play dough area, beginning to explore money and focus on sharing and turn taking.

We read the story Oh Lila. This story aims to help children to develop an understanding that you go to a trusted adult for help, understand who that trusted adult might be and understand that asking for help is good thing to do. Below is a resource to discuss Oh Lila at home.

On Thursday we celebrated St Andrews Day🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 We spoke about who St Andrew was, what he means to Scotland and how we celebrate. The children experienced Scottish music, dance and a story as well as some exploring pattern through Scottish Tartan in the art area.

Outdoors we focussed on imaginative play, we created our own cafe in our new mud kitchen; naming it the Star Cafe⭐️ We made our own Christmas menus and role played as families, chefs and customers. We also enjoyed a lot of loose parts to create Santas workshop and sleigh🎅🏼

Remember next Friday(8th) is our Christmas concert🎄🎅🏼 We hope you can all make it! We have been working extremely hard on our songs🥰

Have a lovely weekend everyone

Beth☺️

Indoor Learning

The children explored the music room in the school this week.  They were introduced to a variety of musical instruments, drums, maracas, bells and tambourine. The children focused on “beat” and learned to tap out their name  on the instruments.

Curriculum Links: Expressive Arts.

We have been beginning to introduce Christmas as it’s all the children are talking about.  Yes it’s only November but the children are busy preparing!  The elves  in Santa’s workshop have been busy making items for the Christmas Fayre.

Indoors-

This week in the ECC we have been celebrating Nursery Rhyme week 🎶

We have been focusing on reciting our rhymes, identifying rhyming words and the odd one out. Parents also attended the ECC to participate in song and rhyme time with their child, thank you to all who attended 🤩 🎶

Links to the Curriculum; Literacy, Numeracy, Expressive Arts.

This week group 4 attended the woods and began exploring and risk assessing the woodland area. The children also enjoyed discussing the weather and the changes in the weather ☔️ 🌧 The children were also using their senses to explore 👀 👃 🖐

This week we are continuing to learn about our bodies but not just our bones but what we can do with our bodies and what they look like.

In the outdoor water tray we’ve been exploring and discussing how blood travels around our body.  We’ve learned new vocabulary such as “arteries, veins and organs”.  The children gained an understanding of how the heart pumps blood through the veins and arteries around our body and to the main organs.  The children proved to be extremely knowledgeable and created their own veins and arteries using pipes to transport blood to different areas of the body.🫀

Indoors we used the mirror to look at the colour of our eyes and length of our hair as some children were curious about different colours of eyes.

 

Gym Tuesday 🤸‍♀️

Some children enjoyed participating in exercises involving balance and co-ordination. We briefly discussed the purpose of our muscles and used the iPad to research information and fact’s relating. Did you know the human body has over 600 muscles?👀 🦵💪

Woodland Wednesday🌳

We began exploring the local woodland area and took part in risk assessing and decision making. As a group they showed great listening skills and practiced Safe Sam, Healthy Hamble and Responsible Racoon from our SHANARRI indicators.

We made skeleton hands using pasta, our own hand prints and glue.🦴

As part of world science day, the children participated in paint splatting and observed what gravity does to the paint 🎨

We discussed our five senses before closing our eyes and smelling/touching what was inside the jars. 🍊 🍃🌾😖These included orange peels, lavender, mint leaves and vinegar 🤭

Hope to see you there 😜

Lynnette x

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 🤗

This week in the main play room the children have been continuing to explore transport. We have been focusing on transport through sensory play and beginning to explore shape.

Curricular areas-    Numeracy/ technology/ science

In the art area the children have been continuing to explore pattern through looking at different types of leaves 🍁 🍃 we have been using describing words to discuss the patterns we have seen in the leaves.

Curricular Areas   Numeracy- expressive arts

In the outdoor area this week the children have been continuing to explore firemen and the importance of exercise. We have developed an exercise routine and building towers to knock them down.

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

Indoors we have began looking at transport as a focus. This week we looked at cars, trains and planes. We created a diagram in the tuff spot to find out how the children travel to nursery. We also created our own ECC race track and explored speed and distance, the children were able to share and take turn during this experience. Due to the children bringing in their own autumn leaves, we started to explore autumn print in the art area.

Curricular Areas – Numeracy, Health and Well-being, Expressive arts

Outdoors we have been role playing and building our own fires and using pipes/loose parts to put the fire “out”. The children have also been able to demonstrate Safe Sam and Healthy Hamble (SHANARRI) through creating their own obstacle courses where they could demonstrate team working and risk assessing skills. Another area of interest has been ball skills where many children were developing their catching, kicking and throwing skills.

Curricular Areas – Health and Well-being, Numeracy

A reminder that our ECC Stay & Play sessions are being held next week. Sessions held from 9.30am-10:15am. Green group session 1.45pm-2.30pm. All welcome✨

🔴 Monday (AM)

🟣 Tuesday (AM)

🔵 Thursday (AM)

🟢 Thursday (PM)

🟡 Friday (AM) 

Flu vaccinations will take place on Monday 20th November. If you haven’t already done so please complete the vaccination paperwork and return to the ECC. If you have chosen to not be present during the vaccination, a member of staff from the ECC will accompany your child for their flu vaccine.

Have a lovely weekend everyone!

Beth⭐️