Blog by Mrs Catterall
Our lovely garden
All of the hard work in our garden is paying off, as the children love looking out for different plants and animals that live or come to visit there. They learn so much from the things they observe. Last week we spotted that the frogs had returned to our pond and that it is the season for…
Posted by /blog/author/mcatterall/page:3 on 31 May 2023
Category: Ducklings
outdoor learning Life cycles mini-beasts
Different places and maps
As part of exploring and understanding the world around them, the Ducklings have been looking at maps of different places and interpreting information from them. They have also been talking about the different features or 'things' that you might find in different places such as in a town, in the…
Posted by /blog/author/mcatterall/page:3 on 31 May 2023
Category: Ducklings
geography Understanding the World
Doubling fun
The Ducklings have been exploring doubling in lots of different ways.
Posted by /blog/author/mcatterall/page:3 on 31 May 2023
Category: Ducklings
Dino play
Thank you to George's mummy for our lovely new small world play table. The children have loved using it with the dinosaurs. Lots of story telling, speaking and listening and working cooperatively together.
Posted by /blog/author/mcatterall/page:3 on 31 May 2023
Category: Ducklings
Speaking and Listening Creative learning Small world
PE - Pushing an object
The Ducklings have been learning to push a ball around with a bat, keeping it close to the bat, under control and exploring changing its direction and stopping it.
Posted by /blog/author/mcatterall/page:3 on 31 May 2023
Category: Ducklings
Big Bear Funk
This half term the Ducklings have been listening to funk music in their music lessons. They have learnt to sing the song, 'Big Bear Funk.' They have also been copying simple rhythms to accompany the song and have learnt to play some musical phrases using the glockenspiels. Watch and listen to our…
Posted by /blog/author/mcatterall/page:3 on 31 May 2023
Category: Ducklings
music Creative learning rhythm instruments
Waterway exploration
The Ducklings have loved investigating how to make the boats travel down their waterway system through team work and trial and error.
Posted by /blog/author/mcatterall/page:3 on 18 May 2023
Category: Ducklings
outdoor learning water team work PSED
Our new mud kitchen
The Ducklings and Little Chicks love the new mud kitchen. Thank you to Luna and her family for all of their hard work.
Posted by /blog/author/mcatterall/page:3 on 18 May 2023
Category: Ducklings
Our Vehicle Survey
We loved sitting and watching the different vehicles pass by our school today. We kept a simple tally of how many of each vehicle we saw. We now realise how busy the road is.
Posted by /blog/author/mcatterall/page:3 on 16 May 2023
Category: Ducklings
New garden toys
The Ducklings are loving the new cable reel play stands that we have been given. Thank you very much to George C's mummy for them.
Posted by /blog/author/mcatterall/page:3 on 16 May 2023
Category: Ducklings
Transport Old and New
The Ducklings have been using photographs as a source of information to compare vehicles past and present.
Posted by /blog/author/mcatterall/page:3 on 15 May 2023
Category: Ducklings
Subtracting Problems
This week the Ducklings are solving problems by taking some away or subtracting. They will be using the same vocabulary as last week with the addition problems, for example 'first I have...' 'then I took...' 'now I have...'
Posted by /blog/author/mcatterall/page:3 on 15 May 2023
Category: Ducklings