Blog by Mrs Catterall
Our reading family
The Ducklings have started out on the journey of learning to read by meeting the family from the Oxford Reading Tree stories. They have been learning the names of the different characters.
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FUnky Fingers
The Ducklings have been busy practising doing up and undoing shirt buttons. They are getting faster all the time. It is easier to practise when they are not wearing their shirt. It is quite tricky when they are still wearing it!
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Physical development Funky Fingers
Underarm throw
The Ducklings have been learning how to throw underarm at a target. It is quite tricky to remember to put the opposite leg to your throwing arm forward and to swing your arm behind you when you throw. Well done Ducklings. Another lovely day in the sun for PE too!
Posted by /blog/author/mcatterall/page:49 on 30 September 2020
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Getting ready for PE
The Ducklings are getting much better at undoing and doing up their buttons for themselves when getting ready for PE. Keep practising this at home when you get dressed and undressed every day too.
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Herb soup
We are learning about the sense of smell this week. We have harvested some herbs from our garden and have been using scissors to snip the herbs and make our own 'herb soup.' The children have enjoyed using their sense of smell to investigate each of the different herbs.
Posted by /blog/author/mcatterall/page:49 on 30 September 2020
Category: Ducklings
fine motor Speaking and Listening senses Understanding the World
Silly soup!
Only objects beginning with our special sound can go in our soup. Today's sound was the letter 't. The boys put a toothbrush, a turtle, a teddy and a tiger in the soup.
Posted by /blog/author/mcatterall/page:49 on 30 September 2020
Category: Ducklings
phonics Speaking and Listening letters
Guess the taste?
As we were finding out more about the sense of taste this week, we carried out a fun investigation. We made 3 different drinks, all red in colour, for the children to taste and guess the flavour. One was water, one orange squash and one lemon squash. The children were able to use their sense of…
Posted by /blog/author/mcatterall/page:49 on 27 September 2020
Category: Ducklings
investigation senses Understanding the World
Being independent
The Ducklings are getting really good at putting on their puddle suits all by themselves now.
Posted by /blog/author/mcatterall/page:49 on 27 September 2020
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Eye colour
We have found out how many children have each eye colour in our class. We made a 'living' graph and then counted up the total for each eye colour. We used vocabulary such as more, less, fewest, greatest.
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Alliteration and odd one out
The Ducklings have been listening to the initial sounds that objects and words begin with. They had to spot the odd one out.
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Our favourite fruits
In mathematics we have been finding out what each of our favourite fruits are. We made a 'living' graph and then counted the number of children that liked each fruit. Which was the most popular fruit in our class?
Posted by /blog/author/mcatterall/page:49 on 27 September 2020
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Problem solving
The ducklings have enjoyed solving the problem of how to get the apples out of the cylinders by just using the water and pipettes. It was also a good activity for strengthening their finger muscles to prepare them for writing.
Posted by /blog/author/mcatterall/page:49 on 27 September 2020
Category: Ducklings