Blog by Mrs Catterall
Finding 1 more and 1 less
The Ducklings have been using real objects to explore finding out what 1 more or 1 less than a particular number would be.
Posted by /blog/author/mcatterall/page:37 on 17 March 2021
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A froggy find
Look at what the children have found growing and changing in our garden 'pond!' They were very excited to find the frogspawn and are looking forward to watch how it grows and changes over the next few weeks.
Posted by /blog/author/mcatterall/page:37 on 17 March 2021
Category: Ducklings
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Spring plants
The Ducklings have been looking at different natural objects that represent spring and new life.
Mrs Catterall brought in a real bird's nest that she found on the ground in her garden.
There have been lots of spring flowers and plants to look closely at.
Posted by /blog/author/mcatterall/page:37 on 17 March 2021
Category: Ducklings
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Fantastic Football
The Ducklings have been practising their kicking skills in PE. They have been kicking with the inside of their feet and stopping the ball with the bottom of their feet. They have been practising aiming their kicks at targets and taking the ball for a walk around obstacles.
Posted by /blog/author/mcatterall/page:37 on 17 March 2021
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Our Neighbours
In RE the Ducklings have been thinking about who their neighbours are and what neighbours do for each other.
Posted by /blog/author/mcatterall/page:37 on 25 February 2021
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Belonging
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This week in RE the Ducklings have been thinking about the clothes that we wear that might show that we 'belong' to a family, a group, a club or a community.
We enjoyed listening to a story called The Swirling Hijaab. It was all about a little Muslim girl and the special scarf that she and her…
Posted by /blog/author/mcatterall/page:37 on 25 February 2021
Category: Ducklings
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Does the biggest mean the heaviest?
The Ducklings have been exploring weight this week. They were set the challenge of finding out if the biggest of objects is always the heaviest!
They have had great fun exploring this idea and using their home made balance scales to check their predictions.
What do you think they…
Posted by /blog/author/mcatterall/page:37 on 25 February 2021
Category: Ducklings
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The ow phoneme
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Josh loves spending time each day after phonics looking for the new phoneme in his lovely books at home. Today he found lots of words with ow in inside The Smartest Giant in Town! Josh typed up the ow words on his computer! Great work Josh!
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Posted by /blog/author/mcatterall/page:37 on 25 February 2021
Category: Ducklings
We are all different! We are all friends!
This week in PSED the Ducklings have been talking about the ways in which they are all different. They have made posters all about themselves and what makes them special!
Posted by /blog/author/mcatterall/page:37 on 23 February 2021
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Kangaroo Jumps
Jimmy has been keeping up with his PE at home by practising his kangaroo jumps, jumping from two feet and landing on two feet.
Posted by /blog/author/mcatterall/page:37 on 23 February 2021
Category: Ducklings
Heavier and Lighter
Jimmy has made some homemade balance scales this week for maths. He has confidently predicted which out of two objects will be the heaviest or lightest and has given a good explanation as to how he knows this.
Posted by /blog/author/mcatterall/page:37 on 23 February 2021
Category: Ducklings
Writing independently
For our first topic lesson of the new half-term, we set the Ducklings the challenge of writing a sentence/sentences about their week by themselves. They had to think of their sentence, keeping saying the sentence and then write their sentence. They had to read back through it and check that it…
Posted by /blog/author/mcatterall/page:37 on 23 February 2021
Category: Ducklings