World Mental Health Awareness Day

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Today we talked about how we keep our bodies healthy physically, but also mentally too. The children came up with some lovely ideas such as making somebody laugh, giving them a smile or a hug and asking a new friend to play with them. 

We looked at some basic yoga to help with relaxation and…

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PSED World Mental Health Awareness Day

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P.E in full swing!

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We are very proud of how independent the children are becoming at getting themselves dresses and undressed for P.E and how well they listen to and follow instructions in the hall. 

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Mental Health Awereness Day in Ducklings

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Today we have been talking about all of the ways we can keep our minds and bodies healthy. The children thought of the most amazing ideas. We then relaxed together by practising some yoga techniques. See if your child can show you! 

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Blending

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We maintain only know a few letters and sounds,but already we can blend them to read simple words independently! Amazing reading!

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reading phonics

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Our families

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 The Ducklings have been making lolly stick houses complete with their families inside. Aren't they lovely?!

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family Creative learning

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Using the keyboard

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The Ducklings have been using the keyboard to enter text and type their names.

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writing ICT

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Our families

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All week this week we are finding out how families a are the same or different. Today we looked at ourselves in our families and had to decide if we were the youngest, middle, oldest or only child in the family. We made a pictograms with our photographs. Most children in our class were the…

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maths family

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Letter sorting

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The Ducklings have been enjoying finding lots of different examples of the letters we have been learning, both lower case and capitals. Well done!

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phonics letters

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Today's letter is p!

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Today we have been learning all about the letter p and its sound. The Ducklings have been listening to the first sounds of words to hear if they begin with a p or not. Great sorting!

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phonics

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Practising our letters

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The Ducklings enjoy lots of different ways to practise forming their letters correctly, with flicks in and out of each letter.

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Physical development Handwriting

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Grandparents' Afternoon

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A huge thank you to all of the grandparents who came to spend the afternoon learning and playing with their grandchildren in Ducklings and Little Chicks. The children were so proud to show you around their new classrooms and we hope that you enjoyed yourselves too. They loved singing and signing…

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Grandparents' Afternoon

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Counting out amounts

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As we are focusing on counting in Maths, the children have been working with their talking partners to count out given amounts. The children have been practising the skill of checking their answers and using one to one correspondence to count slowly. 

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