Welcome back everyone hope you all had a good October break.

Welcome to Teri our new senior lead who joins us covering Cara’s post. Christine has now returned to her own place of work and we thank her for her support during this transitional time.

INDOORS
During the recent inservice day Staff looked at the ECC environment and have changed a few things to further develop our learning.

Our focus this week has been continuing to explore nursery rhymes and incorporate technology into our play.

CfE Literacy, HWB, Technology

OUTDOORS
Children have been exploring  filling and emptying using rice crispies and shaving foam. They were extending and using mathematical language.

Children were talking a lot about the weather and the environmental changes.

CfE Literacy, Numeracy, HWB, Science

NEXT WEEK

We invite the children to dress up for Halloween on Thursday 31st October, we have a fun day planned with messy activities in the afternoon so please bring normal clothes to change into before lunch to allow costumes to remain clean.

Friday 1st November we will be celebrating DIWALI information will be on learning journals.

Please note woodland Wednesday starts on Wednesday 30th October, information on learning journals. Any queries see Beth our outdoor champion.

Have a good weekend, Lynnette x

We have had a very busy week this week leading up to the OCTOBER break.

Thank you to all the parent/careers who made it to our first STAY/PLAY  of this academic year. We have more planned throughout the year so keep and eye on the newsletter and blog for details.

INDOORS

This  week we have been exploring words that rhyme. Demonstrating positive listening skills which indicated good concentration skills for a period of time. Some were able to identify words that rhymed with little support, evidencing awareness and knowledge of rhyme. We have been using the Promethean board to further develop our knowledge of nursery rhymes where we have had to select the nursery rhyme of  choice and select the correct order of words.

*LITERACY

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As part of our health and well-being, we explored the nhs germ buster video and discussed the importance of hand washing. We then washed our hands following handy Andy’s 👋 hand washing routine, before returning to play.  We encourage you  to wash your hands before and after play, after the toilet, before snack and lunch and whenever you sneeze or cough and also if you ever touch animals. This helps protect you and your peers!

𝕨𝕠𝕣𝕝𝕕 𝕞𝕖𝕟𝕥𝕒𝕝 𝕙𝕖𝕒𝕝𝕥𝕙 𝕕𝕒𝕪 2024

Thursday, we explored world mental health day and discussed as a group various emotions and feelings they may experience throughout the day. Within the ECC they have the opportunity to explore emotions through the colour monster story daily and are able to identify and match feelings with colours.
As part of world mental health day, you have been provided with a challenge to complete at home of creating your own colour monster. Instructions are attached and if possible can it be returned when completed alongside the children’s evaluation on the front page 😃

*HEALTH & WELLBEING

OUTDOORS

We continued exploring concept of filling and empty using sand/water extending our vocabulary by using some mathematical terminology.
We explored our creativeness through foam using hand eye coordination and fine motor skills.

Children explore the changes in the environment collecting leaves and learning more about the season AUTUMN.

*NUMERACY, STEM, EXPRESSIVE

REMINDER ECC CLOSED FOR OCTOBER BREAK FOLLOWED BY INSERVICE DAY SO CHILDREN RETURN ON

TUESDAY 22ND OCTOBER.

Have a great holiday,

Lynnette x

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🥰