Ducklings
Our Ducklings
We are very lucky to have 5 duck eggs to look after and observe them as they grow and change. Today we welcomed one of the ducklings into its new world. It was very exciting.
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hatch ducklings Life cycles Understanding the World
Composing numbers beyond 10
In Maths this week we are focusing on numbers beyond 10 (up to 20), in particular, 'teen' numbers. We are exploring different ways to compose (make) a number both independently, in pairs and as a whole class.
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A CRASH landing!
This morning we discovered the most peculiar thing had happened in our classroom overnight. A little bear, wearing yellow wellies and a colander for a hat, had landed in what looked like a cardboard box. The bear had lots of clues around him and luckily, we had lots of curious children to get to…
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reading Speaking and Listening Our stunning start
Independent Reading and Understanding
This week the Ducklings have the challenge of reading sentences by themselves and showing they understand what they have read by adding features as needed to the pictures.
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Numbers beyond 10
This week we are looking at how the numbers beyond 10 can be composed. Today, the children have explored making the teen numbers with the numicon and describing the patterns that they could see.
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Our Eggcellent Experiment!
This week we have been asking the question, 'Which is the best material to stop a hard boiled egg from smashing when dropped?'
The children selected materials...poms poms, play dough and cotton wool. We talked about how to make it a fair test and Bodhi suggested that we drop the eggs from the…
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Our EGGsperiment!
We wanted to investigate the best material to protect an egg when dropped. The children decided that it needed to be something soft. They chose play dough, pom-poms and cotton wool to test out. They suggested ways to keep the test fair, such as dropping the eggs from the same height and onto the…
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science Understanding the World
Outdoor Easter Fun
Despite the spring showers we have enjoyed some Easter themed outdoor learning - drawing patterned Easter eggs, having egg and spoon races, counting eggs and matching to the correct numeral.
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Dino fun
The children have enjoyed using their imaginations to pretend to create a dinosaur swamp.
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Applying our phonics skills
We love showing off our new phonics knowledge by reading words with our newly learnt graphemes in, making words by segmenting with our phonics fingers, writing tricky words and even sentences with complete independence now.
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Spring Weather and learning outdoors
You may have noticed your child coming home a little dirtier than usual. As the Spring progresses, we have been busy planting Spring flowers, weeding, exploring the changes around us, transporting and being outside enjoying the sunshine one moment, then rain the next! We love the fact our children…
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outdoor learning Physical development
Sorting objects
In Maths this week we have been discussing the variety of ways we can sort a group of objects. We have worked in our House Teams to plan how to sort and help one another to sort objects correctly, discussing problems along the way.
Some of the criteria we sorted objects according to…
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