Applying the 'ur' sound in our writing

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Today we wrote lists of words featuring 'ur' and thought of a silly sentence including two 'ur' words. 

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Writing independently

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For our first topic lesson of the new half-term, we set the Ducklings the challenge of writing a sentence/sentences about their week by themselves. They had to think of their sentence, keeping saying the sentence and then write their sentence. They had to read back through it and check that it…

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Heavier and Lighter

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The ducklings at home have enjoyed making their own set of balance scales to explore and find out which objects are heavier or lighter.        

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Heavier or Lighter?

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We have kicked off this week with our new maths topic, weight. Today we thought about things that are heavier and lighter, collecting objects to test our ideas. 

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Chinese New Year

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We have been finding out who celebrates Chinese New Year and how and when they celebrate it.  We have read some Chinese New Year stories and watched some video clips of real families celebrating. We have compared this special celebration to celebrations that we might experience with our own…

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Good work -oo phoneme!

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Look at Rupert's amazing writing in phonics! Good isn't it?!  Rupert, you have gorgeous handwriting and your sentences are set out beautifully.

Can you tell which phonemes we have been learning this week? OO! Have a think!

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Creative Phonics

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Josh had been busy making star shaped cookies as a follow up to our How to catch a Star story. He used the left over dough to make some words with the 'ar' digraph in that we had been learning that day.

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More fun with money

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The Ducklings have had more fun in maths this week, putting their money maths skills into practise. Some have been making their own shops, with items for sale, creating their own price tags and exploring being the paying customer or the shopkeeper.

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Day and Night

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As part of our What can we see? topic, we have been learning about day and night. The children have made pictures, used models and even made videos to explain how we get our day and our night.

We read a lovely story by Oliver Jeffers called How to Catch a Star. It was all about a little boy who…

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Who do we love?

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In preparation for Valentine's day we read some stories about love and thought about who we love and who loves us.  Some of the Ducklings made some lovely Valentine's cards for the people they love and wrote beautiful messages inside.

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Chinese New Year

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We have been learning about Chinese New this week and it has been so lovely to see the work our amazing Ducklings have produced. Look at this beautiful writing and Chinese fan! 

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Bringing money to real life situations

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It has been so wonderful to see how many of you have enjoyed learning about money this week. The best way to apply the skills you have learned is through real life situations and role play. Here, Eric is choosing and paying for the toppings for his freshly made pancakes. 

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