Blog by Mrs Stock | Carleton Green Community Primary School

Ordering by height

We have been ordering the guttering according to height.

Posted by /blog/author/jstock/page:9 on 10 January 2022

Today we started our new theme 'Our Wonderful World'. Within this theme we will be looking at warm and cold places in the world and the changes the seasons spring and winter bring. This week we are looking at the story Here Comes Jack Frost by Kazuno Kohara.

After listening to the story the…

Posted by /blog/author/jstock/page:9 on 5 January 2022

Category: Little Chicks

Investigating the frost and ice.

It was very cold and frosty this morning so we all wrapped up and went out to investigate it.

We made footprints on the grass and created frost angels. Our warm bodies melted the frost on the grass.

We found that the water in the pond and in the tuff spots had frozen.

we…

Posted by /blog/author/jstock/page:9 on 29 November 2021

Category: Little Chicks

Number 6

Little Chicks are learning number 6. We count out objects, find number six in the environment and use the interactive screen to count and find 6.

Posted by /blog/author/jstock/page:9 on 16 November 2021

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Letter 'a'

We have been learning the letter 'a' today and we had a go at writing both a capital and lower case letter 'a'.

We have also been singing the Jolly Phonics letter 'a' song, which you can find on youtube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=97yx-eYdNzM

Can you find any objects at home which…

Posted by /blog/author/jstock/page:9 on 8 November 2021

Category: Little Chicks

Humpty Dumpty

We have been showing that we have an understanding of prepositions by placing Humpty in a given position such as 'in the box', 'behind the wall', 'on the wall', 'under the box', 'above the box', 'in front of the wall' and 'between'.

Ask an adult to place a teddy somewhere and see if you…

Posted by /blog/author/jstock/page:9 on 8 November 2021

Category: Little Chicks

Rhyming

The children have been choosing an object from the blue sheet and matching them with an object which rhymes from the orange sheet. Dish and fish, goat & boat, wall & ball, star & car, carrot & parrot, box & fox, pear & bear, hen & pen, dog & frog and bat & cat.

Can you find any…

Posted by /blog/author/jstock/page:9 on 21 October 2021

Category: Little Chicks

Climbing and Jumping

This morning we have been in the hall to do some climbing, jumping and moving in different ways. First we did some exercises to warm up our bodies, we made circles with our arms, raised up onto tip toe whilst raising our arms and alternate toe taps. We then moved around a course, climbing up a…

Posted by /blog/author/jstock/page:9 on 19 October 2021

Category: Little Chicks

Autumn Activities

Today we have used our hands and fingers to print an autumn tree.

Outside the children cut up a variety of vegetables and discovered seeds in the squashes!

They also created hedgehogs using half a pear and some matchsticks.

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Posted by /blog/author/jstock/page:9 on 18 October 2021

Category: Little Chicks

Building homes

This week we are using the wooden blocks to create homes. We are building vertically and horizontally to create an enclosure and build a home.

To see more of our fantastic structures click on the link to the photo gallery: …

Posted by /blog/author/jstock/page:9 on 13 October 2021

Category: Little Chicks

Reading Time

It was lovely to see so many children independently choosing to sit and look at the books. They held the books the correct way up and turned the pages with care.

Some children made up their own stories which corresponded with the pictures in the book.

Super learning Little Chicks!

Posted by /blog/author/jstock/page:9 on 13 October 2021

Category: Little Chicks

2D shapes

This week we are learning about 2D shapes. We are getting good at using the mathematical name for simple shapes such as heart, star, circle, triangle, square and triangle. Can you see any shapes in your home? Send us a picture of the shapes you find. We have also been singing a shape song which is…

Posted by /blog/author/jstock/page:9 on 12 October 2021

Category: Little Chicks

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