For the month of December we have displayed our own LEYC Memory Tree. Families could take a blank tag and write a memory of a loved one that is no longer with us or for family members who may live far away or want to write a special Christmas message for them ❤️.
To celebrate the Festival of Winter Walks underpinned by our UNCRC focus on play, outdoors and being active and to learn about different technologies we took a morning walk around the school grounds. During this we identified many forms of technology from fire alarms, speakers, electric gate openers and electric car charging points and took pictures of these on our iPads to document them.
During this we spoke about the benefits of being outdoors with children voicing the benefits and playing in the natural environment around them.
⭐️Curricular links
📱Technologies 0-05a – I enjoy playing with and exploring technologies to discover what they do and how they help us.
🟢 Health and Wellbeing 0-015a – I know that being active keeps me heathy.
In line with our Eco focus this month – waste management and our UNCRC articles 31 – right to rest, leisure and play and article 24 – the right to clean, healthy and sustainable environment.
Some of the children went on a litter pick. We discussed the importance of why we shouldn’t litter and what happens to our environments when people litter. The children worked as a team to clear up the litter.
At Largs Early Years one of our upmost priorities is to create nurturing and secure environments that allow children to create and sustain relationships with their peers and others. 👩🏼🤝👩🏿👨🏻🤝👨🏽 We support children to build the foundations for this through daily interactions, our PATHS programmes, daily check ins and reference to our SHANARRI characters. 🐻🦊🤖🐝🍏👾🐘. This helps to instill the 4 capacities for all our children within the curriculum for excellence – confident individuals, successful learners, responsible citizens and effective contributors ⭐
To support our UNCRC articles 15&19 that underpins ‘anti-bullying week’ we discussed what it means to be a friend, voicing each others qualities and how this makes each other feel. To express our thoughts on this we made friendship stones for someone we think of as a friend 👩🏼🤝👩🏿👨🏻🤝👨🏽❤️
The children located an area in our garden to place their stones which is now a space to highlight and celebrate our unique characteristics, attributes, and is a symbol of how loved we are.
Thanks to all that voted 🙂
Here are some ways we explored our story of the month:
The speech and language team are now promoting the Cbeebies parenting resource Tiny Happy People . It shares tips and advice for promoting language.
To help support our eco schools work we will be having a collection for Rag Bag in October. If you are having a clear out for Christmas or there are clothes that no longer fit, then please bring them to the centre by Monday 27th October. They will be collected on Wednesday 29th October. This helps us raise some funds for other eco activities. Thank you in advance for your support.
♻️ Our new Donation Station is up and running ! ♻️
As you are all aware we are part of the Eco Schools programme and we are hoping to continue all our hard work with a little help from our children and families. 🌟The children at LEYC enjoy being creative, imaginative and curious and one of the best ways to nurture these qualities is with loose parts play! Loose parts play gives the children the freedom of play using all sorts of different everyday objects as anything they wish them to be. So we are looking for your loose parts !
We would be grateful of anything you could donate, big or small. ( If you have a wee look at the station there are lists of suggestions. )
Is it a kitchen roll tube…… no it’s a Telescope 🔭, a pirate sword 🗡️, a magic wand 🪄
Children and their families have voted ‘Room on the Broom’ as our new story of the month in the 3-5 room. Check out the results below 🙂
