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

Day 1: 5 Santa star jumps 🎅 ⭐️

Day 2: 5 Gingerbread men jogging on the spot

Day 3: 5 snowmen wobbling around ⛄️

Day 4: 10 reindeer kicks🦌

Day 5: Dancing around with tinsel

Day 6: Stretch up high to put decorations on the tree Christmas🎄

Day 7: snowball fight- using scrunched up paper and throw into

Day 8 : 10 jumping elves 🧝‍♀️ 🧝

Day 9: 10 popping up Santa’s🎅                                                                            

Day 10: can you put as many stocking as you can on your feet 🧦 

Day 11: mince pie running 🥧

Day 12: dance around the Christmas tree 🎄

🎅🎄It’s the 1st of December countdown to Christmas is on!! 🎅🎄, it’s time to introduce our rhyme of the month. This month our rhyme is Sing a song of Winter ❄️

We’d love your help to decorate the ECC for winter.  Try making your own snowflake at home with paper or sticks and we can use them to make the Playroom feel snowy and who knows maybe we’ll get real snow in time for Christmas. ❄️☃️

The children have continued to build on their knowledge of rhyme by creating rhyming stews.  Most of the children are able to identify rhyming words and can say if a word doesn’t match in a rhyming family.  We’ve created our own rhyming stories and rhyming strings.  We’ve also been using technology to consolidate our learning of rhyming words.  We’ve been recording each other on the iPad and using the talking tubs to record our own voice saying nursery rhymes.

Curricular links: Literacy, Technologies.

We’ve had some time to relax during this busy season as we build up to Christmas (ssshhh!).  We had Yoga sessions with Jan and mindfulness moments with Jen.  The children enjoy these sessions as it gives everyone a chance to pause and reflect during the day.

curricular links: Health and Well-being.

Outdoor Learning

The supertato theme has continued outdoors this week as the children were matching the correct amount of potatoes to numbered pots.  Developing their numeral recognition and 1to1 correspondence counting skills.  They also collected data to find out the most popular vegetable and learned how to record and represent their findings in different ways.

Curricular links: Mathematics

The children have been busy little elves in santa’s workshop creating gifts for the Christmas Fayre as part of a whole school enterprise project.  Come along to the Fayre on Friday to see their lovely work.

Outdoors: The children have been continuing with measurement/volume during water play.

Supertato has been a big hit, the children made their own Supertato hero which they were all very proud of. They had to try and save him as he was frozen in ice by Evil Pea,they tried melting the ice with hot and salty water and hitting it with a spade

The children were also playing ring games and working together.

Links to the curriculum;  Maths and Numeracy, Expressive Arts, Health and Wellbeing, Sience.

Indoors:  The children have been continuing  with rhyming words through songs and games and also odd one out. They have been exploring the new emotions mirror which they are now beginning to access independently on a daily basis.

In the creative area the children have been self selecting paint and creating Christmas crafts for the Fayre.

The Christmas fayre is on Friday 25th November from 6.30pm, hopefully you can come along with your child and enjoy the festivities and the childrens enterprise goods.

Links to the curriculum; Literacy, Health and Wellbeing, Expressive Arts.

Have a lovely weekend everyone. 🥰

Jan.