Ducklings
Rocking and Rolling in PE
The Ducklings loved learning new ways to roll in PE last week and some of them were quite tricky to do and took a bit of practising! They learnt how to do a pencil roll, forward roll, table roll, barrel roll and a teddy bear roll. Well done!
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Visit to the Garden Centre
We had a lovely morning out at the garden centre. We completed a fun quiz, made some wild flower bee bombs to bring home, scattered some seeds to make a meadow and explored all of the different kinds of plants that you can buy for your garden. The children's behaviour was outstanding! Well done. A…
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Programming the Beebot
The Ducklings have been learning to programme the Beebot robots in order to give them the correct instructions to direct them around the 'garden.'
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Our trip to the Garden Centre
The children and adults alike had the best time today at The Plant Place Garden Center. The children took part in a quiz,searching for clues, got to plant seeds and scatter then into the new meadow, and learn about different types of plants and flowers. The children were amazing walking to and…
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visit science outdoor learning
Climbing
The Ducklings were very excited to have the large apparatus out in PE on which to explore climbing up, along, through and under the climbing frame.
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Construction fun!
The Ducklinngs have been selecting construction materials of their own choosing to make models of a flower.
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construction Creative learning
Spatial Awareness
The Ducklings have been making models using their spatial awareness to follow a plan.
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CCVC word hunt
It was 'Game on!' last week, when the Ducklings were set the challenge of finding all of the CCVC words hidden around the classroom.
Get them to explain to you what a CCVC word is and to give you an example!
stop trap frog
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The life cycle of a plant
The Ducklings and Little Chicks have explored creating the life cycle of a plant by making play dough models of the different stages of grwoth. They lhave used new vocabulary such as root, shoot, sprout, stem, stalk, bud, leaf, flower and petal.
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Life cycles Growing plants and seeds
Composing Shapes
The Ducklings have been exploring how to compose (make) a shape, using other shapes. It has allowed them to explore the fact that a shape can be made up of other shapes. They have explored selecting, rotating and manipulating shapes during these activities. Through this spatial reasoning, they…
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A visit from the Spring lambs
This week we had a very welcome visit from two adorable lambs. The children got to pet the lambs, ask questions about them and learn all about what it is like for a lamb on a farm at Spring time.
The children have been asked to think of names for them! I wonder what they will come up…
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PE and fundamental skills
We continue to enjoy practising and refining our fundamental skills in PE each week. This week we had great fun climbing, balancing, jumping, crawling and rolling.
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