Look what we found in the garden!

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As well as finding a young frog last week, we have know found a big adult frog. The children enjoyed observing all of its features and asking lots of questions before realising it back into the wild!

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Life Cycles

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We have been thinking about what a life cycle is and beginning to look at life cycles of different plants and animals. We have been using The Clevertouch to match labels and think about the life cycle process. 

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Investigating Growth

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We have special visitors in school this week. We are lucky to have several caterpillars to help us understand about growth and how things change over time. They have already grown so much! 

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Yummy Soup!

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Our vegetable soup, which we helped to make today, was delicious! Some of us enjoyed it so much that we had soup moustaches!

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Healthy eating

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Vegetable Soup

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Following on from reading the story 'Oliver's Vegetables,' we have been helping to make healthy vegetable soup. 

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Physical development Healthy eating

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Our froggy find

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Look what we found in our garden today when Mrs Richardson and the children were gardening....a tiny frog! 

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We love reading!

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It is fantastic to see our children showing such a love and enjoyment of reading. They love their new reading toadstool.

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A Surprise Package!

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Today we returned from a lovely trip to the garden centre to find that a surprise package had arrived for us!

We have got 5 caterpillars and can't wait to watch them grow and change! We will keep you updated ! 

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Understanding the World

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Our trip to the plant place

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Thanks to the Plant Place for letting us visit today! We had a fabulous morning. We started with a hunt around the garden centre to look for clues to a quiz. Then we each planted a sunflower seed and finally explored all the different types of plants. There were so many!! 

We ended our visit by…

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Exploring capacity

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Outside in the garden the Ducklings have been exploring filling different sized  containers and pots with compost and finding out which hold the most or the least. They have also been trying to estimate before actually  counting and measuring.

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Half full or half empty?

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The Ducklings have been exploring different capacity descriptions such as full, empty, half full, nearly empty and nearly full.

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Reading CCVC and CVCC words

The Ducklings have been applying their phonic skills to read words with consonant clusters in.

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reading phonics

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