Practising our catching skills

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Today we have been practising our catching skills in the sunshine.

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Physical development

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Outdoor fun in the rain

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Even on a wild and wet day the Ducklings had lots of fun - splashing and wading through the puddles, jumping over the puddles, mixing different coloured paints in the puddles, jumping along the letters to read words and investigating which objects float or sink in the flood!

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outdoor learning

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Printing robots

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We have been printing robots using 3D shapes.

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printing Creative learning

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Nuts and bolts

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This week the Ducklings have carefully placed nuts and bolts to create their own Metal Mike robots.

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fine motor Creative learning Funky Fingers

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Reading captions

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The Ducklings have been showing off their phonics skills this week by applying their knowledge of the sounds that they know to read simple captions independently! Super star readers!

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reading phonics

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Robot technicians

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The Ducklings have enjoyed joining and fixing the different parts of the robots together using the special nuts and bolts.

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DT

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Addition everywhere

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We have continued with our topic of addition this week with a wealth of independent opportunities for the children to show what they can do on their own. Whether indoors or outdoors, the children can demonstrated their super addition skills. 

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maths

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Christmas is coming!

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The elves have been very busy getting ready for Christmas in our new role play area this week. Presents are being organised, wrapped and sent out in Satna's workshop as we prepare for a Christmas like no other. 

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Mini engineers!

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The Ducklings have enjoyed getting inside old electrical appliances and exploring what they can see. Future engineers and mechanics!  They used the screwdrivers and pliers with care and control. We have also talked about how they mustn't do this at home and that these are old items and that they…

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Design and Technology Funky Fingers

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Are we any better?

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We have enjoyed exploring and handling household objects from the past. We have tried to guess what some of the strange objects are, the materials that they are made from and how they work.  We also asked the question, 'Are we any better today?'  We all agreed that having radiators to warm our…

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History Understanding the World

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Shape Robots

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In the sunshine last week the Ducklings enjoyed using the large glitter shapes to create their own robots. They are super at naming the 2D shapes now!

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maths outdoor learning Shapes

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Last day of remote learning!

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Hopefully today will be the last day of learning from home for a while! Miss Hutchinson and I are so very proud of the Yellow Ducklings though for all of their efforts whilst learning form home. Today we had more super adding, amazing phonic skills on show and fanastic robot inventions. We can't…

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