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Writing our new phonemes
It is important that the children practise writing the new phonemes introduced each day. Look at this amazing, cursive handwriting practise! Absolutely amazing.
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It's Party Time!
The Ducklings had a great time today - making party hats, dancing, singing, playing games and the best bit of all eating Christmas biscuits and drinking hot chocolate! Yummy! Even the cheeky elf had his sparkly suit on today especially for the party.
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Positional vocabulary
In Mathematics this week we will be learning all about prepositions or positional vocabulary. We worked with our talking partners today to put our bears in the correct position when the teacher called out a position word such as behind, beside or above.
Our cheeky elf is also finding himself in…
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Christmas fun!
This week sees us doing lots of fun activities and learning all about Christmas - making play dough mince pies, decorating party hats, cutting, sticking and writing toys in stockings, acting out the nativity story and writing lists and letters to Father Christmas to name just a few.
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Tremendous tricky words
The Ducklings love practising writing the tricky words.
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Estimating
We have been learning what estimation is in maths. We tried to estimate the number of Christmas baubles and then checked by counting. We discovered that it is easier to estimate when there are fewer objects.
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Oh we wish it could be Christmas everyday
We started our last week with Christmas party day in Ducklings. The children have enjoyed games, dancing, competitions and biscuits in the hall, followed by Christmas activities, hot chocolate and chocolate lollies for an extra special treat.
When the children were asked what their favourite…
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Writing our tricky words
We have been reading and writing our tricky words in phonics this week and as always, finding opportunities to write them anywhere!
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The stable in Bethlehem
The Ducklings have been busy creating their own stables in Bethlehem.
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Christmas Creative learning Nativity
The Nativity
The Ducklings have been using the Clevertouch board to illustrate the story of the first Christmas.
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Blending to read
The Ducklings are growing in confidence to blend sounds together to read words.
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reading reading buddies phonics
Nativity stories
The Ducklings are enjoying drawing and writing all about the first Christmas.
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