Blog by Mrs Stock | Carleton Green Community Primary School

Jigsaws

Just look at how good we are getting at completing jigsaws!

To complete a jigsaw we have to:

match shapes
match colours
have spatial awareness
remain focused for a period of time
pay attention to details.

We are very proud of our achievement.

Posted by /blog/author/jstock/page:12 on 25 June 2021

Today and throughout the week we will be reading the story ' The Colour Monster' by Anna Llenas. It is a lovely book which explores feelings and colours associated with feelings. The children are making their own colour monster and explaining why they have chosen the colour and how it makes them…

Posted by /blog/author/jstock/page:12 on 21 June 2021

Category: Little Chicks

Drawing boats

We have chosen different water transport to draw. We are trying hard to use lines to create shapes to represent objects, such as triangles as sails, a rectangle as the hull or mast. Practise drawing simple shapes at home to create pictures.

To see more of our pictures please click on the link: …

Posted by /blog/author/jstock/page:12 on 24 May 2021

Category: Little Chicks

Dot-to-Dots

Today we have been doing dot-to-dot puzzles. We can recite numbers to 10 and are getting very good at recognising them too. Lots of us had never done any dot-to-dots at home and we really enjoyed following the numbers and completing the pictures.

To see more of our spring dot-to-dots please…

Posted by /blog/author/jstock/page:12 on 19 May 2021

Category: Little Chicks

Message in a bottle

We have been pretending we are a pirate that has been left on an island. We write a message to put into a bottle. Look at our fantastic writing!

We are giving meaning to the marks we make sometimes form recognisable letters.

To see more work, click on the link: …

Posted by /blog/author/jstock/page:12 on 19 May 2021

Category: Little Chicks

Clapping the sounds in words

We have been listening carefully to the rhythm in words and clapping out the sounds.

We have clapped out our names and other words such as ap-pple (2claps), ban-an-a 3(claps), tad-pole (2claps), pi- rate (2claps),

hel-i-cop-ter (4claps).

How many words can you clap out…

Posted by /blog/author/jstock/page:12 on 11 May 2021

Category: Little Chicks

Treasure Maps

Little Chicks have been busy drawing treasure maps to show where they have hidden their 'booty'! They have added volcanoes, swamps, hills, rivers, caves, lakes, monsters, mud puddles and castles to their colourful maps.

To see more treasure maps click on the link: …

Posted by /blog/author/jstock/page:12 on 4 May 2021

Category: Little Chicks

speech Physical development Creative learning

Our Imaginary Fish

We have drawn an imaginary sea creature using lines to enclose spaces and create shapes which represent objects. We have then used a range of materials and media to decorate our sea creatures.

To see more pictures, please click on the link:…

Posted by /blog/author/jstock/page:12 on 27 April 2021

Category: Little Chicks

Frog life cycle

We have been taking care of the tadpoles in our pond. They didn't start of as tadpoles though, they were first frog spawn. We have been learning the life cycle of the frog so that we can watch the tadpoles grow and become frogs. The next stage is the formation of back legs on the tadpole followed…

Posted by /blog/author/jstock/page:12 on 27 April 2021

Category: Little Chicks

Nibby's Visit

On Monday Nibby came to visit us. Nibby is an illustrator and he showed us some of the illustrations he has done for stories, colouring books, posters and pictures of houses and families people have requested.

Nibby then helped us to create an imaginary sea creature. We told him what it…

Posted by /blog/author/jstock/page:12 on 27 April 2021

Category: Little Chicks

Building enclosures

Today we have been building enclosures for an animal using Duplo bricks. To create an enclosure we have to build horizontally and vertically.

See how we all got on by clicking on the link: https://www.carletongreen.lancs.sch.uk/photo-galleries/building-enclosures

Posted by /blog/author/jstock/page:12 on 19 April 2021

Category: Little Chicks

Printing repeating patterns

This week we have been looking at repeating patterns. We have used colour and shapes to make patterns. We have also printed repeating patterns onto fish using celery to create the fishes scales.

To see our patterns click on the link: …

Posted by /blog/author/jstock/page:12 on 16 April 2021

Category: Little Chicks