Ducklings
Playing and Exploring
The Ducklings and Little Chicks have loved exploring and problem solving in the water tray during this lovely weather. They constructed and figured out a way for the fish to travel between the water trays by talking and working together.
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Weaving
The Ducklings have been having fun in the sun learning to weave with lots of different materials including paper, ribbon, grasses and felt.
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Under the Sea Dance
The Ducklings enjoyed their PE dance lesson on Friday. They explored moving like different sea creatures.
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Playing 'Fish'
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This week we have read the story The Rainbow Fish. Following on from this the Ducklings learned how to play a memory game called 'Fish.' They had to turn over two cards, one at a time to see if they could find a matching pair. They needed to watch the cards even when it wasn't their turn to see if…
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Reading Silly Questions
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These two busy Ducklings have been reading silly questions and deciding if the answer would be Yes or No. They have used their knowledge of tricky words and the different phonemes or sounds that they know to help them read independently.
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Sorting 3D shapes
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This week we have been revisiting 3D shapes again but this time with a focus on describing and recognising the properties or features of each shape. Today, outside in the sunshine, the Ducklings were working with their friends to decide upon different ways to sort the shapes according to some of…
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Properties of 3D shapes
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In Maths this week we are learning all about 3 D shapes and their properties. We are comparing, sorting and talking about shape and completing a range of different shape based activities.
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Construction Club
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Today was the first of our after school construction club. The children have really enjoyed working together or independently to create and build a range of interesting things, from helicopters to the Queen's throne!
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A Plastic Problem
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The Ducklings and Little Chicks were welcomed back to school with a surprise waiting for them!
The world's sea creatures have asked for our help and left them a letter. There is a real problem with plastic waste getting into the oceans and seas and harming the marine creatures. They left us…
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Pattern fun
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The Ducklings have been exploring making repeating patterns in different ways today.
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Spelling cvcc words
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This week the Ducklings are learning to read and spell cvcc words. These are words with a consonant, a vowel and then ending with two consonants. It is quite tricky to make sure that we include all four letters when spelling each word. The third letter is often the trickiest.
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Applying our phonics skills
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The Ducklings are becoming more confident to apply their knowledge of phonics and tricky words to help them read sentences independently.
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