Heavier and Lighter

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The ducklings at home have enjoyed making their own set of balance scales to explore and find out which objects are heavier or lighter.        

Posted by /blog/author/mcatterall/page:38 on 23 February 2021

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Chinese New Year

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We have been finding out who celebrates Chinese New Year and how and when they celebrate it.  We have read some Chinese New Year stories and watched some video clips of real families celebrating. We have compared this special celebration to celebrations that we might experience with our own…

Posted by /blog/author/mcatterall/page:38 on 15 February 2021

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Good work -oo phoneme!

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Look at Rupert's amazing writing in phonics! Good isn't it?!  Rupert, you have gorgeous handwriting and your sentences are set out beautifully.

Can you tell which phonemes we have been learning this week? OO! Have a think!

Posted by /blog/author/mcatterall/page:38 on 15 February 2021

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Creative Phonics

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Josh had been busy making star shaped cookies as a follow up to our How to catch a Star story. He used the left over dough to make some words with the 'ar' digraph in that we had been learning that day.

Posted by /blog/author/mcatterall/page:38 on 15 February 2021

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More fun with money

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The Ducklings have had more fun in maths this week, putting their money maths skills into practise. Some have been making their own shops, with items for sale, creating their own price tags and exploring being the paying customer or the shopkeeper.

Posted by /blog/author/mcatterall/page:38 on 15 February 2021

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Day and Night

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As part of our What can we see? topic, we have been learning about day and night. The children have made pictures, used models and even made videos to explain how we get our day and our night.

We read a lovely story by Oliver Jeffers called How to Catch a Star. It was all about a little boy who…

Posted by /blog/author/mcatterall/page:38 on 15 February 2021

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Who do we love?

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In preparation for Valentine's day we read some stories about love and thought about who we love and who loves us.  Some of the Ducklings made some lovely Valentine's cards for the people they love and wrote beautiful messages inside.

Posted by /blog/author/mcatterall/page:38 on 14 February 2021

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Painting Tricky Words

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The Ducklings have been learning to read and write the tricky words you and are this week. Josh has been using his water colour paints to practise writing them.  Well done!

Posted by /blog/author/mcatterall/page:38 on 7 February 2021

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Tricky words

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Jimmy has done a brilliant job of writing all of the tricky words he knows as quickly as he can! I love the colours too!  Beautiful cursive handwriting!

Posted by /blog/author/mcatterall/page:38 on 5 February 2021

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Money Madness

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The Ducklings have gone all money mad this week! Look at this little star using different coins to pay for items in his toy shop! Well done Max!

Posted by /blog/author/mcatterall/page:38 on 4 February 2021

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The Toy Shop

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Jimmy has done a super job of paying for the toys using different coins in his toy shop.

Posted by /blog/author/mcatterall/page:38 on 4 February 2021

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The Big Schools' and Garden Bird Watch

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First of all, Theo created lots of different bird feeders to attract the birds to his garden and then over the weekend he set up the family's 'gopro' and has sent in the video below...

Posted by /blog/author/mcatterall/page:38 on 2 February 2021

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