Week commencing 17.09.24

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Indoors this week, children have been exploring numbers through song and rhyme including five current buns and 1,2,3,4,5 🐠 They have also been exploring numbers through a matching game where the children were required to match the number of pegs to the number card 🔢 We are beginning to exploring shape and children have the opportunity to explore shape throughout the learning environment including the promethean board and games. Some children are beginning to demonstrate an interest in vehicles and have been exploring various methods of transport including fire engines and trucks 🛻

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Outdoors this week, children have been exploring turn taking and sharing through use of the bikes and scooters. We have also been developing our understanding of how to explore resources effectively and how take care of our property and materials. Through exploring the physical activities, children are beginning to discuss road safety and what we need do to keep ourselves safe when in the community including the use of traffic lights. Children are continuing to explore construction materials when outdoors and are enjoying expressing their imaginative skills through creativity in play. We have also been exploring pouring and filling in the water tray using various sizes and shapes of containers. 💧

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We hope you all have a lovely September weekend and will see you back at the centre on Tuesday 24th of September.

Week commencing 09.09.24

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This week we are continuing to explore dinosaurs within the ECC and have been using construction materials to design and create our own 🦕 We have been incorporating size and discussing big and small as well as investigating the various colours and body parts of multiple dinosaurs 🦕.  Some children have enjoyed creating collage dinosaurs when in the creative area. They used a variety of collage materials provided and enjoyed designing their own interpretation of a dinosaur. Children are continuing to explore collage materials during play and have open ended resources available including loose parts and different varieties of equipment.

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Outdoors this week we have been exploring bugs further and have enjoyed using investigative equipment to look closely at insects in our garden. Children developed their ICT skills through use of the iPad to further investigate and research facts and information relevant to our findings 🐜 🐛 Some children expressed their creativity through designing and creating  their own bug houses using various construction materials and loose part resources  🏡

We also visited the gym for the first time this week 🏃‍♂️ As some children have never been to gym, we discussed the importance of keeping safe as well as the gym routine and expectations. We then enjoyed a warm up activity before taking part in some rings games incorporating turn taking and peer support before a cool down of some stretches. Our gym session will be every Tuesday if you can please provide gym shoes in your child’s bag 😃

We hope you have a lovely weekend and take care ✨

Lisa x

This week we have began exploring dinosaurs, in zone 1 we have been exploring role play and recognising the different types of dinosaurs. In the creative area we have explored print and colour mixing. We have also been developing our independence skills through accessing various resources and finding our name.

Outdoors we have been continuing to explore risk and understanding how to keep safe in the garden. We have been exploring various resources and taking part in different play to develop our gross motor skills and our understanding of keeping ourselves and our friends safe. We have also continued to explore insects, using magnifying glasses and bug catches to develop our knowledge.

🌟Septembers Communication Top Tip🌟

Have a lovely weekend everyone🥰

Beth🌟

This week we have continued to settle back into nursery and build on our routine. Working on building relationships with our peers and staff. The children are enjoying the exploration of different areas in the ECC and developing many skills through play.

We are at the beginning of our focus in the ECC, with upcoming learning looking at minibeasts outdoors and dinosaurs indoors. The children have expressed interest in these two ideas within the ECC.

🕷🕸 Rhyme of the month 🕸🕷

🕷Since the children have been showing an interest in mini beasts in the ECC garden so our rhyme of the month for September is Incy Wincy Spider.

🕷We will be learning the rhyme in the ECC. Please support your child to practice at home.🕷🕸

If your child would like to make a spider, or a web or anything from the rhyme we’d love to see. You can bring in a picture or a model or upload to your child’s learning journal and we can share their learning with their friends in the ECC.

Have a lovely weekend everyone!
Beth🥰

Week commencing 19.08.24

Welcome back to all new and returning children. We are delighted to welcome you to the centre and hope you had a lovely summer break ☀️  𝘊𝘰𝘯𝘨𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘶𝘭𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴 to Cara who welcomed her baby girl in August 💗👶🏼 We currently have Christine in the centre who will be taking over Cara’s position until it is temporarily filled. We have also welcomed Rebecca to the team on a temporary basis who is a qualified practitioner 😊

In the coming weeks we are focusing on building relationships with our peers and settling into the environment. We are learning the routine of the day and are enjoying exploring the ECC 🎨

Can I please remind parents/carers to provide gym shoes or trainers on a Tuesday as this is our gym day. If you have not already done so, can you please provide wellington boots to remain within the centre so children can access outdoors in all weathers. If you have any concerns please speak to a member of our team who will be happy to help 😊 ☔️ ☀️ ❄️

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If you have changed address or telephone number during the summer holidays can I ask you please inform the school office as soon as possible as this is important information required indefinitely. 😊

We look forward to the year ahead and can’t wait to get to know our children and families 🤗Please find attached some photos from our first few days in the centre. Have a wonderful weekend and take care,

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𝕃𝕀𝕋/𝕊𝕔𝕚𝕖𝕟𝕔𝕖/ℍ𝕎𝔹

Our last week before the summer holidays has been filled with lots of fun and laughter. Our ECC beach party was a great success, even with the slightly overcast weather. 🤣 🏝️ ☀️

A big goodbye and good luck to all our children starting their new adventure in Primary 1 in August, we will miss you all ❤️  Pop into the ECC on your first day of Primary 1 to show the staff you looking all grown up in your P1 uniform ⭐️

We would like to say a massive thank you and fair well to Jan❤️ As many of you will know, Jan has worked at Mauchline ECC for 27 years, working within EAC for over 40 years. She will be a massive loss to our team but we are super excited to wish her well on her retirement and all the new adventures she will have. I’m sure she won’t be a stranger✨

It’s also coming to that time when Cara finishes up to start her maternity leave. We wish her and her partner all the best during this exciting time and can’t wait to meet her new arrival👶🏼🍼💕💖

And finally, a massive thank you to all the staff past and present, children and families for another great year. We look forward to going again in August! Have a wonderful summer holiday and be safe☀️

Lots of love from all the staff at Mauchline ECC ❤️

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.”