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.

In the outdoor area the children have been exploring the language of measurement in the water tray they have been pouring, measuring and filling. They have also been exploring imaginative play/ role play through recollection of stories. They have shown an interest in Supertato the story and this has transcended into the outdoor area into our garden.

Numeracy/Expressive arts/ HWB

This week in the Main playroom the children have been exploring nursery rhymes and creating firework patterns.

Literacy/Technology

In the Art area  the children have been fireworks using cardboard tubes and paint, crayons and black paint to scrape the firework shapes.  The children have also been creating poppies to commemorate Remembrance Day .

RME/ Literacy/Social

Just a wee reminder to ensure your child has their name on their jumpers and if you can check at home to make sure you have the right jumper.

Have a lovely weekend 😊

Alyson

                                 November 2022                 

When we are exploring outdoors as an adult, do we really use our senses to fully experience its wonder!!!!!!!!!!!!

Children are much better than us at taking time to fully appreciate our environment.

So over the month of November I would like you to try take time to stand still with your child outdoors and use your senses:

 Look

Listen

 Smell

 Touch (if appropriate)

 Taste (if appropriate)

Your task is to note one thing for each sense that you notice and one thing for each sense that your child notices.

E.g.          I saw a bird

                I heard a siren.

               I smelt fireworks

               I touched leaves.

               I tasted ice-cream

You will be surprised at what differences you may find. Please upload your findings to your child’s learning journals or send email to:

lynnette.cook@eastayrshire.org.uk

Hope you have fun!

Lynnette (Outdoor Champion)

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This week the children have been enjoying some new loose parts materials in the home corner 🪵🪨🧱 They have been inventing recipes using the resources available, helping to develop creative skills by encouraging use of imagination and experimenting freely.

Some of the children also enjoyed creating ‘puffy’ paint monsters 😈

How do you make puffy paint? 🎨  Please find below a link with an example of how to make puffy paint at home ✨

https://onelittleproject.com/how-to-make-puffy-paint/

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(𝕊cience, 𝕋echnology, 𝔼ngineering, 𝕄athematics)

All children were provided with the opportunity to participate in two STEM experiments this week 🧪 We discussed the autumnal changes that is currently taking place, including the changes in leaves as well as the changes in weather. The children explored a wind tunnel experiment and a rain cloud experiment and enjoyed the process 🔬

We have also been exploring ICT this week and using the iPad to explore online activities beneficial to children’s learning 💻

Links to the curriculum;

Science, Technology, Expressive Arts

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Outdoors this week the children have been discussing the changes between day and night ☀️ 🌚 As the clocks changed last week, we have been discussing the time sequences that take place throughout the day and events that we link to our wider world 🌎

Some children have been exploring our outdoor water tray where they have been measuring using funnels to create Dragons brew 🐉 This encourages development of imaginative skills through story telling and role play.

Links to the curriculum;

Expressive arts, Science, Maths and Numeracy

Have a lovely weekend and if you are celebrating bonfire night please stay safe 🔥

ℕ𝕠𝕧𝕖𝕞𝕓𝕖𝕣 𝕥𝕠𝕡 𝕥𝕚𝕡 🗯

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As it is the 1st of November, it’s time to introduce our rhyme of the month. This month our rhyme is ‘Teddy Bear, Teddy Bear’ 🧸

Can you please practice the rhyme at home 🏡

We would love for you to send us a video of you practicing with the actions 🕺Why not include your favourite teddy bear ☺️🧸 🕺

Please ask a grown up to video your rhyme and email it to: lisa.mathieson@eastayrshire.org.uk

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Well done to everyone that took part in last month’s challenge and created a rain shaker ☔️ They we’re all fantastic 👏

This week has been super busy with celebrating Halloween 🎃👻 We have continued to explore the autumnal changes by incorporating our treasure hunt findings into our ECC learning experiences. Thank you to everyone that took part, we hope it was an enjoyable experience and we have enjoyed seeing everyone’s pictures and exploring what was found🍂🍁 We also had our Halloween stay and play this week which was lots of fun, we loved showing our families what learning takes place in the ECC. Playing in the slime was a favourite this week⭐️

Links to the curriculum; Technology, Social Studies, Expressive Arts, Health and Well-being

In the creative area we have been exploring Halloween and using different paints and collage materials to create ghosts, spiders, pumpkins etc.🎨🧑‍🎨

Links to the curriculum; Expressive Arts

Outdoors this week we have been making potions in the water tray and tuft spot, we have been mixing messy materials together and discussing the different textures, colours and smells. We have also been enjoying ‘what’s the time Mr Wolf’ where we  have to use our listening skills, counting and jumping skills.🐺⏰

Links to the curriculum; Numeracy, Science, Health and Well-being

To everyone celebrating Halloween tonight and over the weekend/Monday, stay safe and have lots of fun🎃👻

Beth