Ducklings
Mushy Pea Play Dough
The children have loved exploring in the malleable area this week with the mushy pea play dough! It has been great to strengthen our finger muscles by pinching and rolling the play dough to make pea shapes.
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Making 10
Exploring different ways to add and make 10 with peas!
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The Princess and the Pea Investigation
Investigating how many layers of bed covers they need to put on the bed until they can no longer feel the pea.
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maths Understanding the World Counting
Adding and throwing
Practising our underarm throwing skills and aim and accuracy, but also adding the two scores together by counting on.
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maths Physical development Addition
Exploring mixing colours
The Ducklings have been exploring mixing different colours of paint to see how many different 'pea' green shades they can make as part of our Princess and the Pea topic.
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Keeping Healthy with the school Nurse
This morning we had a visit from our school nurse. We learned about all the ways to keep our bodies fit and healthy, from sleep, brushing our teeth to moving and exercise. The children made some fantastic contributions to discussion.
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Reading in the castle!
The Ducklings love their new reading castle!
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"Mirror, mirror on the wall!"
The Ducklings and Little Chicks have been pretending to be princes and princesses. They have been saying the special words into the magic mirror!
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Adding to make a number
The Ducklings have been applying their addition skills by finding two numbers that make a particular total.
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Let the Rainbow Challenge begin!
Each week the Ducklings have lots of different challenges to complete. This week we have introduced the Rainbow Challenge, whereby the children try to achieve 7 different coloured lolly sticks, by completing the 7 different challenges. The children complete a challenge independently and then show…
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Funky fingers
Our funky fingers have been very busy again, carefully placing jewels on mirrors, as part of our Snow White topic this week.
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fine motor Physical development Creative learning
Learning to throw underarm
We have been learning how to throw with increasing accuracy with our underarm throw.
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