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Doctor! Doctor!
The Ducklings have enjoyed finding ot about the people whose job it is to look after and keep others healthy. They have talked about their own experiences of visiting the doctor.
The children have enjoyed using the stethoscope to listen to each other's hearts and they have been practising…
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Blend and read captions
One of our rainbow challenges this week has been to blend and read words and captions with independence. Look at these super readers!
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Remembrance Day
On the 11th November at 11 am we joined in with the 2 minutes silence. Throughout the day we painted poppies and made play dough poppies. Ask the children to tell you why there are purple as well as red poppies.
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Firework Dancing
In PE, we listened to Handel's Music for the Royal Fireworks and we used scarves and ribbons to explore moving along to the music to create fireworks. We twisted, turned, swirled, leapt, skipped, spun around, twirled and much more! It was great fun and lovely to see them come up with their own…
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dance Physical development Creative learning
Construction fun
The Ducklings have loved the new addition to our outdoor construction area - some old go-kart tyres. They were quick to create their own ideas of what to build with large construction equipment. They have built racing cars, fire engines and bridges.
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outdoor learning construction Creative learning Role-play
Puddle fun
Last week we saw, heard and felt some torrential rain! It was great fun to go out with our puddlesuits and wellies on and explore the puddles and flooded, muddy field afterwards.
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jumping weather Physical development
Bonfire and firework fun
Last week we were learning all about the story of Guy Fawkes and why bonfire night is celebrated. We have talked about how to stay safe on bonfire night, explored making firework pictures, moved like fireworks and squirted and printed with paint to make firework pictures.
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Colour mixing with autumn colours
The Ducklings have been exploring mixing different autumnal colours and painting and printing with them
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Collage with natural objects
The Ducklings selected natural, seasonal objects to create their own works of art. Can you guess what they are? They also used their ICT skills to take a photograph of their finished work with an iPad.
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The Little Red Hen
The children know the story of The Little Red hen so well now, that they can act it out with puppets, using the familiar story language.
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Threading and weaving
The Ducklings have been exercising their fine motor skills by weaving, threading and winding wool around different leaf shapes.
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fine motor Physical development Funky Fingers
Blending and reading words
The Ducklings have only learnt a few phonemes (sounds) so far, but already they are able to use these to blend sounds together and read some words independently.
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