Blog by Mrs Catterall
Sketching Harvest Vegetables
The Ducklings have been celebrating harvest time by sketching harvest vegetables with oil pastels.
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Posted by /blog/author/mcatterall/page:27 on 11 October 2021
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Making Patterns
This week in mathematics the Ducklings are looking at patterns. They will be busy describing patterns, continuing patterns, spotting mistakes within patterns and creating their own.
We have also noticed that there are patterns around us in the world everywhere.
The children are realising…
Posted by /blog/author/mcatterall/page:27 on 11 October 2021
Category: Ducklings
Mark making outdoors
After learning about the different parts of our bodies, the children decided to draw around each other outside. Great mark making practise!
Posted by /blog/author/mcatterall/page:27 on 10 October 2021
Category: Ducklings
PE Fridays
The Ducklings are loving their PE Fridays. They are learning about the importance of warming up at the start of the lesson. This week we danced to the Skeleton dance.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e54m6XOpRgU
The Ducklings are learning to jump for distance and have been practising this in…
Posted by /blog/author/mcatterall/page:27 on 10 October 2021
Category: Ducklings
Amazing handwriting!
The Ducklings love using the Clever Touch board on which to practise writing the letter of the day. All of the practise is paying off!
Posted by /blog/author/mcatterall/page:27 on 5 October 2021
Category: Ducklings
We can spell simple words!
Even though the Ducklings have only learnt a few letters in phonics so far, they can already use this knowledge to help them spell simple words. Amazing!!
Posted by /blog/author/mcatterall/page:27 on 5 October 2021
Category: Ducklings
Letter formation outside
Even in this wet and windy weather it is lovely to see the Ducklings practising their letter formation.
Posted by /blog/author/mcatterall/page:27 on 5 October 2021
Category: Ducklings
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Whose tower is the tallest?
Following on from our learning in maths, the Ducklings were keen to build towers and use comparative vocabulary to compare their height.
They used language such as tallest, shortest, taller than and shorter than.
Posted by /blog/author/mcatterall/page:27 on 5 October 2021
Category: Ducklings
Comparing and ordering length
Today the Ducklings (those who were brave enough to venture outside in the wind and rain!) put their maths knowledge into practise by ordering objects found in the garden in order of their length.
Posted by /blog/author/mcatterall/page:27 on 5 October 2021
Category: Ducklings
Capacity
The Ducklings have been learning all about capacity and how much a container can hold. They have been thinking about which containers hold the most or least.
Posted by /blog/author/mcatterall/page:27 on 5 October 2021
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Funny Bones
Learning about the different bones in our bodies and their names has been fun. These Ducklings have worked together to make their skeleton and label it.
Posted by /blog/author/mcatterall/page:27 on 5 October 2021
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Making Faces
We have been artists, using lots of different materials, of our own choosing, to create our faces! Do you like them?!
Posted by /blog/author/mcatterall/page:27 on 5 October 2021
Category: Ducklings