Blog by Mrs Catterall
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!'
Posted by /blog/author/mcatterall on 9 July 2023
Category: Ducklings
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.
Posted by /blog/author/mcatterall on 5 July 2023
Category: Ducklings
4-Sided Shapes
In mathematics, the Ducklings have been using matchsticks to construct 4 sided 2D shapes with their talking partners.
Posted by /blog/author/mcatterall on 3 July 2023
Category: Ducklings
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.
Posted by /blog/author/mcatterall on 27 June 2023
Category: Ducklings
seasons Understanding the World
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.
Posted by /blog/author/mcatterall on 27 June 2023
Category: Ducklings
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…
Posted by /blog/author/mcatterall on 24 June 2023
Category: Ducklings
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…
Posted by /blog/author/mcatterall on 24 June 2023
Category: Ducklings
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…
Posted by /blog/author/mcatterall on 21 June 2023
Category: Ducklings
trip History Understanding the World
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.
Posted by /blog/author/mcatterall on 18 June 2023
Category: Ducklings
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.
Posted by /blog/author/mcatterall on 18 June 2023
Category: Ducklings
Physical development Healthy living week
Healthy Fruit Salad
As part of healthy living week, the Ducklings helped to prepare and eat a very healthy fruit salad! It was very yummy.
Posted by /blog/author/mcatterall on 14 June 2023
Category: Ducklings
fine motor fruit Healthy eating Healthy living week
Digging and jumping fun!
The Ducklings had lots of fun with their gross motor skills outside today. They have been digging in the mud, transporting and filling with water and finally enjoying jumping over the puddle with skill! No-one ended up in the mud either!!
Posted by /blog/author/mcatterall on 13 June 2023
Category: Ducklings