Morning Everyone

Next week we will begin our Wellbeing Wednesday’s

Every Wednesday we will focus on something different, this will be things you can do for yourself, for your families and there will be opportunities to take part in activities at home 🏡

Please check here or the Facebook page evey Wednesday 😃

We will be celebrating Maths Week Scotland in all four playrooms between 26th September – 2nd October. 🧮

The theme for this year is “Beauty in Maths” 🎨👩‍🔬

There will be activity bags each following a different theme that will make their way through the playrooms from Monday to Thursday. We will be looking at:

Shape 🔷🔵

Numbers 🔢

Measurement 📐

Symmetry 🦋

On the final day the whole centre will have the opportunity to take part in a group experience to explore and celebrate the beauty of maths together.

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Here is the link for more information on Maths Week Scotland

https://www.mathsweek.scot/about

There are lots of in-person and online events planned to celebrate Maths Week, with exhibitions in museums across Scotland and online competitions running. The big family weekend is Saturday 1st and Sunday 2nd October, why not have a look and see if there is something you fancy visiting in our local area or beyond:

https://www.mathsweek.scot/news/maths-week-scotland-2022-family-events

exploring and experimenting with water and pipes! 💦 💧

exploring with a variety of shapes 🟦🔺🟢🔶     

A visit to the local park 😁 ☀️

co-operating through games 🧩🎲

Have you seen our new page on Learning Journals?

Please have a look along the tabs or click here to visit this page.

The Statutory Consultation on Early Learning and Childcare in East Ayrshire Council is now open

Education authorities have a statutory duty under the Children and Young People (Scotland) Act 2014 to consult with a representative group of parents and carers with children under school age in their area about how they should make early learning and childcare available.

We have created two surveys for parents, carers and prospective parents and carers residing in East Ayrshire in order to hear their views on early learning and childcare in our authority. The surveys will be open for 3 weeks from the 31st May.

The views of parents and carers are important to us and will be used to inform the future delivery of early learning and childcare in East Ayrshire Council so please take 5 minutes to complete this survey if you are a parent or carer of a child or children currently accessing funded early learning and childcare: https://www.smartsurvey.co.uk/s/1C7NKT/

Or, if you are a parent or carer of a baby or young child or a prospective parent or carer not yet accessing early learning and childcare please take two minutes to share your views with us using this link: https://www.smartsurvey.co.uk/s/SLIBOJ/

We will also be seeking the views of children as part of the Statutory Consultation.

If you would like more information about the Statutory Consultation please contact EarlyYears-Admin@east-ayrshire.gov.uk.

Your support with this important exercise is much appreciated.

When your child says the wrong sound don’t put pressure on them.

A child’s speech sound development is gradual and some children can develop sounds at different times to other children.

Children will tend to say or produce a speech sound when they are developmental ready – it’s not laziness when they’re not producing a particular sound ; and just because they can copy a sound or say it on its own, does not mean they’ll be able to use it in words or sentences (yet ! )  if your child is making errors in their speech eg if you say ‘tat’ instead of ‘cat’, the best thing to do is model the way of saying it in a really positive way eg That’s right a cat, really emphasising the correct sound.

Don’t correct them and try and make them repeat it after you this could affect their confidence and put them off talking.

Speech sounds continue to develop up to the age of 7.

It’s all about  Blowing Bubbles everyone loves bubbles and while having fun you will be strengthening your tongue and exercising the lips to help with speech sounds.

Bubble Mix Recipe 

• 2 cups washing up liquid
• 1tsp of cooking oil
• 1 cup of water

Making The Mix

mix the washing up liquid with the water and add the cooking oil it makes the bubble mix stronger our if you don’t want to use bubbles you could try – cotton wool or feathers across a table small pieces of hankie in the air bubbles from the bath, using the palm of your hand, try whistling.

Strengthen abdominal muscles can increase sentence length, strengthening the tongue correctly for (K,G) and ng sounds that are produced at the back of the mouth.

Lip rounding for sounds (W, OO) and ‘O’ when your child is blowing if the shape of the lips is round, great if they are more on the flat side try squeezing their cheeks to get their lips in the right position.

Speech Sounds – When your child requests more bubbles with a sign or gesture try modelling the sound (m) more, (b) bubbles or (p)for pop.

Please see a link below regarding bookbug sessions on 27th June for children in 3-5s

‼️‼️PLEASE NOTE THIS IS DIFFERENT TO PREVIOUS QUESTIONNAIRE ‼️‼️

Please complete this form with your child’s name and who will be attending (1 adult per child please)

Please complete by Friday 20th May

Any late completion we may not be able to accommodate

Thank you

We are looking to arrange some book bug sessions which you can attend with your child.

We will be in touch with proposed dates and times but at that this stage we are looking to gauge interest.

Could you please complete the questionnaire below by Friday 13th May.

Please not that this is for 3-5s only at this stage.