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Summer Fair Fun
The Ducklings thoroughly enjoyed their afternoon and evening at the summer fair. A few said that 'It was the best day ever!'
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Crossing the Road
The Ducklings have completed their safer pedestrian road safety training. They know how to stop, look and listen and to walk sensibly across the road whilst holding a grown-up's hand.
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4-Sided Shapes
In mathematics, the Ducklings have been using matchsticks to construct 4 sided 2D shapes with their talking partners.
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Summer
Our new theme of learning, for the next few weeks is summer. The Ducklings have been exploring the changes to an ice lolly on the investigation table.
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Look and Listen
The latest part of our road safety, has been to explore looking for different vehicles, big and small and moving or still. The Ducklings have also been using their listening skills by closing their eyes and pointing in the direction of any cars that they can hear coming.
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World Music Day
To celebrate World Music Day this week, we listened to some classical music. The Yellow Ducklings voted to listen to The Waltz of the Flowers and The Russian Dance from The Nutcracker By Tchaikovsky. They closed their eyes to help them focus. They loved listening and afterwards they talked about…
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Safer Places and Stop!
The Ducklings have been learning about safe places to play, away from roads. We discussed how grass verges near roads are dangerous to play on. Ask them to tell you where safer places to play are!
We also explored the dangers of driveways that cross a pavement and practised stopping at the…
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Revisiting Subtraction
This week in Maths we are recapping our learning on subtraction. The children are practising counting back to take away, using real life objects to help them explore answers and solving real life problems involving taking away.
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Our trip to the Vehicle Museum
The Ducklings had the most amazing trip to The British Commercial Vehicle Museum in Leyland . They got to learn about engines and vehicles from the past, got to go on some amazing and unusual vehicles and do activities related to the things they had.
The children loved every moment, and to…
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The Commercial Vehicle Museum
We had a fabulous time at the vehicle museum today. The children were all amazing and so well behaved. They loved finding out about all of the different vehicles, their purpose, what they were made of, how old they were and how they were powered.
The best bits were of course our coach ride and…
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A Sikh Visitor
On Friday, we had a visit from Kash from Building Bridges, to talk to us about her Sikh faith. The children learnt lots about the Sikh traditions.
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Physical challenges
The Ducklings enjoyed completing a range of physical challenges as part of our healthy living week.
They were jumping, hopping, hula hooping, throwing, catching and passing.
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