Ducklings
Islam visitor
The Ducklings were very good at listening to our visitor Samina, talking about her Islam faith today. They even managed to answer some questions correctly from their prior learning.
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Speaking and Listening Understanding the World R.E.
Building Vehicles
The children love using the large construction equipment to build. This week they have loved building vehicles following on from our transport topic. Do you like their monster trucks?
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construction Physical development PSED
Coronation
This week the Ducklings have been learning all about the coronation of King Charles III. They have been listening to facts about Charles and his early life, been busy making decorations, bunting and crowns, painting portraits of King Charles and having their own pretend coronation parties in the…
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Outdoor P.E
The Ducklings have loved doing P.E outside so far this half-term.
So far, they have been practising kicking the ball at a target or to a partner, stopping the ball with the bottom of their foot and taking a ball for a 'walk' (dribbling) keeping it under control.
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Goodbye to the Ducklings
Today we said 'Goodbye' to our beautiful ducklings as they go off to their forever home. We have loved learning about them, petting them, caring for them and hearing how happy and content they have been during their time with us.
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pshe Speaking and Listening Understanding the World
Kicking and Receiving
Today we have continued with our kicking skill development in P.E. The children have been kicking their balls at a target and continuing to kick to a partner and stop a ball to receive it.
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Learning about Rosa Parks
As part of our Transport/History topic we have learned about the life of Rosa Parks, the black woman who took a stand against racist segregation on buses in America. The children amazed us with their empathy, questions, understanding and outrage at the thought of people of colour being racially…
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Our New Arrivals
Today, the Ducklings got to meet three of our newly hatched Ducklings called Honey, Rupert and Margot. They are teaching us lots about life cycles, as well as just simply being gorgeous! They are now out of the incubator and are currently living in their animal…
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science Life cycles Understanding the World
Exploring amounts beyond 10
The Ducklings have been working together with their talking partners to make amounts above 10 using ten frames and counters. They have discussed how there are many different ways to compose the same number.
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Minibeasts
The warmer weather is bringing out all of the mini-beasts in our garden and the children are loving observing them. Today, they found slugs, woodlice, snails and centipedes.
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Understanding the World mini-beasts
A visit from spring lambs
Today we had a visit from two adorable, four week old lambs. Luckily for us, our very our Mrs Richardson is married to a farmer and is so knowledgeable about how to rear and care for the lambs. The children got the opportunity to stroke and handle the lambs if they wished to. They observed their…
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science Speaking and Listening Understanding the World
Rocket Fun
The Ducklings have enjoyed being outside in the sun today and have been busy using the large equipment to construct rockets (complete with boosters!) to take them on their adventures to the moon.
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