3D Junk modelling Mini Beasts

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Little Chicks have been given a variety of resources to make 3D mini beasts. They looked at a mini beasts idetification sheet, chose one they would like to make and chose different materials to put together.  We used the Ipad to research the chosen mini beasts and what they looked like to best…

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mini-beasts Junk modelling

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The Very Hungry Caterpillar

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This week LIttle Chicks are learning about the Hungry Caterpillar, The Cautious Caterpillar, The Crunchy Munching Caterpillar.

 

 

Monday we read the Hungry Caterpillar, we retold the story in order. The Little Chicks then read the story and worked with their peers to put the props in…

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Life cycles story retelling story

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2D Shapes

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This week we are continuing to investigate 2D shapes. We are using 2D shapes to draw around to recreate pictures and create pictures of our own.

  

The children are also finding simple 2D shapes out in the environment.

We are also investigating what 2D shapes we can see in 3D…

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Life cycle of the Butterfly

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Little Chicks have been learning the life cycle of the Butterfly. We listenend to the story Caterpillar Butterfly, The book is a non-fiction which teaches all about the life cycle of a caterpillar to the stage it becomes a butterfly, but it has a story element making this easier for children to…

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science Life cycles story painting drawing

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Letter of the week V

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Little Chicks are learning the letter V they find objects beginning with V, write on the white boards words beginning with V, learn the jolly V song and join Captain Seasalt on Treasure island listening for words beginning with V.

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writing phonics Speaking and Listening Singing

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Trip to the Garden Centre

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Little Chicks and Ducklings visited The Plant Place. They engaged in sowing seeds, Craig the gardener showed the Little Chicks the varied plants in the centre and taught their names and how they grew, particularly in different environments and temperatures.

Little Chicks then went around the…

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Road safety Growing plants and seeds Active learning Quiz

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Symmetrical Shape Butterflies

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When reading the story 'If Only.....' by Neil Griffiths we noticed that the butterflies wing have the same pattern on each side. We have used 2D shapes which we know to create a pattern on the wings. We had to remember that if we put a red triangle on the left hand side wing at the top, we had to…

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2D Shapes

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We have been learning about 2D shapes. We were given the name of a shape and we had to stand on the shape.

The shapes were circle, square, triangle, rectangle, hexagon and oval.

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Planting Green Beans

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Little Chicks listenend to the story Stitch.

 

Little chicks have planted French beans we are discovering what plants need to grow. We have five different pots with seeds and varied components.

 

  1. Seeds, soil, but no water.
  2. Seeds, soil, water, placed in the dark.
  3. Seeds, soil,…

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science experiment Growing plants and seeds

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Letter of the week U

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Little Chicks are learning the letter U they find objects beginning with U, write on the white boards words beginning with U, learn the jolly U song and join Captain Seasalt on Treasure island.

Playing the discover the picture U game.

 

Writing the letter U using their finger in…

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writing phonics Speaking and Listening Singing

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Measuring objects in different ways

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Little Chicks have been measuring different objects using varied resources.

 

Using straws to measure               Using wooden blocks to measure        Using unifix to measure

Little Chicks were imaginative at finding different ways to measure objects.

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measure activemaths

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Labelling of parts of a plant and Outdoor Learning

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Little Chicks have been learning about the parts of a plant. They have named the parts of the plant and wrote the words onto their picture.

  Labelling parts of the plant.

 

Mrs Hicks Outdoor Learning

Little Chicks have been taking the left over food to the composte bin. Litttle…

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writing science Growing plants and seeds

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