Blog by Mrs Catterall
Colourful Bubbles
The bubble wands have been out this week and the Ducklings and Little Chicks have loved exploring all of the rainbow colours that are in each of the bubbles that they make.
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outdoor learning investigation
Our favourite colours
In mathematics we have been asking questions and collecting data to find out the answers. We wanted to find out which colour was the most popular colour in the Ducklings. We made a tally chart and a real living graph! Can you see which colour is the most popular colour? Which is the least popular?
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Inside a church
As part of our RE lessons, we have been exploring being part of a family and special places that a family might meet at. We were planning to go and visit a church but we did the next best thing and watched a virtual tour of a church together. Those children who have visited a church shared their…
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Category: Ducklings
Look and Listen
Next on our road safety journey we practised stopping and then looking and listening to the direction in which traffic may be coming from.
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Expressing how we feel through Music
The Ducklings have enjoyed talking about how different colours make them feel this week and also expressing how they feel through playing music. We have a new Duckling Band!
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Exploring with colour
The Ducklings just love exploring mixing the different coloured paints and talking about what they discover.
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Funky finger colour monsters
The Ducklings have enjoyed creating their own mixed up colour monsters using elastic bands and tangled coloured wool.
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materials Creative learning Funky Fingers
Independent Readers
We are so proud of our Ducklings who are all becoming confident and independent readers. One of our rainbow challenges this week was to read a caption and match it to the correct picture. This clever Duckling has matched them all up with his friend.
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Bilinguasing
The Ducklings thoroughly enjoyed a visit by Cath from Bilinguasing. She played some fun games with them and taught them some basic French phrases.
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Hot Seating
The Ducklings took it in turns to pretend to be Mrs Rainbow from a recent story that we had been reading. The children had to get into character and answer the questions as if they were Mrs Rainbow.
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reading Speaking and Listening hotseating
Crossing a driveway
The Ducklings have been talking about how driveways are like little roads and how they can be dangerous as traffic can come in and out of them at anytime. During our Safer Pedestrian course, we practised - stopping, looking and listening before and during crossing a driveway with an adult.
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Colour mixing
Outside the Ducklings have enjoyed using the painting window to explore mixing the colour on.
Posted by /blog/author/mcatterall/page:32 on 5 July 2021
Category: Ducklings