A short week this week after returning from the February break.  The children are still demonstrating an interest in Dinosaurs and have been creating their own fossils using clay and dinosaur skeleton bones.

Curricular Areas: Literacy, Science.

In the art and craft area the children were designing their own dinosaurs and giving them their own name.

Curricular Areas: Expressive Arts

Outdoors the children were still interested in designing and building obstacle courses.  They continued exploring different materials to use as cement such as sand.  The ipad was used to research and study different buildings.    The children were assessing their risk by building towers and jumping off of them.

Curricular Areas:  Health and Wellbeing, Technologies.

Outdoor learning:

This week we have been working as a team to design and construct different buildings….we made houses, a Pizzeria and a water station we also used a variety of materials like shaving foam as cement.

Curricular areas: Health and Well-being, Technology, Expressive Arts.

We also identified 2d shapes in the garden and used them to build a castle.

Curricular areas: Maths/Numeracy.

Indoor Learning:

We have been exploring different species of dinosaurs and their habitats and looking at fossils, bones and teeth. We have been researching and investigating through ICT using the Promethian Board.

Curricular Areas: Expressive Arts, Science, Technology.

Hope everyone has a lovely holiday weekend. Don’t forget our Stem challenge of the month, we’d love to see you taking part, all information on Learning Journals.

ECC reopens on Thursday 16th February.

See you all then

Jan 😊

This week we have continued exploring birds after the RSPB National bird watch weekend 🦅 The children continued to show interest in bird watching both indoors and outdoors. Some children explored data analysis through creating bar charts based on the information gained from our watch. Indoors, the children also created their own birds by using collage materials.

Curricular areas – Science, Numeracy, Expressive Arts

Outdoors

The children have been exploring water play outdoors, specifically looking at measurement and floating and sinking.Also they have shown interest in building houses and obstacle courses developing their problem solving, imagination and gross motor skills.

Curricular areas – HWB, Science, Technologies

We have uploaded to journals our monthly challenge and our rhyme of the month! We would love to see you all taking part in these.

Have a lovely weekend, Beth☺️

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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 😊

This week in the playroom the children have been continuing to explore the role of fire fighters through role play. The have also started to use the computer using Googlemaps to find where the fire station in Mauchline is.

social studies/ Expressive arts

This week in the art area the children have been creating a fire engine for the role play and using various art materials to explore pattern.

Expressive arts/technology

Outdoors
The children have continued to develop their ball skills outdoors. They have been playing cooperatively and developing their balancing and team work skills.

Due to the cold weather the children have shown an interest in ice this week. They have been using a selection of tools to break/smash the ice.

Health and wellbeing/science

Big welcome back to everyone at Mauchline ECC we hope you all had a lovely Christmas and a Happy New Year 2️⃣0️⃣2️⃣3️⃣

This week we’ve began focusing on people who help us-fire fighters and exploring in our very own fire station. The children have been using their imagination whilst role playing as fire fighters and the dangers within the role 🔥. We would be very grateful if any parents who have any knowledge or experience of being a fire fighter, would like to get involved with the children’s learning at the ECC we would really appreciate it.

Curriculum for Excellence links; Social Studies, Literacy, Expressive Arts, Technology.

If you haven’t already done so please choose a time to schedule your child’s personal plan review and these will be held in person in the ECC- see learning journal for more information.

Have a lovely weekend everyone, Cara.

Final week of the year and the children have been busy in Santa’s Post office.  Wrapping presents for each other, sorting money and recognising coins.  The excitement of the season has been evident throughout the playroom with the children counting down to Christmas and still singing our concert songs.  We’ve been working on our mark making skills by writing Christmas cards for each other and delivering them from the post box.

Curricular areas: Literacy, Numeracy.

The children worked collaboratively on a process art project and made their very own Christmas tree. They are very proud of the outcome.
curricular areas: expressive arts.

We were treated to a fantastic performance of Beauty and the Beast Panto and the children thoroughly enjoyed joining in with the songs and dancing. “Oh yes they did!”

All that’s left to say is Have a fantastic festive season from all the ladies at Mauchline ECC 🎄

This week has been very busy with Christmas activities and our Christmas Stay and Play🎄⭐️

Outdoors this week, some children created obstacle courses with loose parts and others continued to continued to explore the ice.

CFE – Science, Health and Wellbeing

Indoors, we welcomed our grown ups for our Christmas Stay and Play.🎄  We loved inviting everyone in and showing what fun we have in nursery. At the bottom of the playroom, we have loved our Post Office, exploring letter formation and mark making. We enjoyed making Christmas cards and play dough at the art area, exploring the gloop was also a highlight.

CFE – Expressive Arts, Literacy

Lots of fun was had today at our ECC Christmas Party🎉 The children enjoyed some sweet treats, dancing and party games!

Have a lovely weekend everyone, Beth. 🥰

What a busy festive week in the ECC 🎅🎄💫

Outdoors this week the children have been enjoying discussing the changes in the weather, exploring in the ice and the forms of the ice 🧊 . They even decorated some Christmas trees, working on their fine motor skills.

CFE- Science, Expressive Arts, Literacy & Health & Well-being.

This week indoors the children have been exploring in the polar express small world area and they have also been focusing on letter formation and mark making whilst completing their letters for Santa. Some children worked together as part of a team to create a post box to send their letters for Santa 🎅💫

CFE- Literacy, Expressive Arts, Social Studies, Health and Well-being.

Big well done to all the children at our ECC Christmas concert today we are very proud 💫🌟

Have a lovely weekend everyone, Cara.

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