Shrove Tuesday

Little Chicks enjoyed pancakes for Shrove Tuesday.

 

 

Little Chicks listened to the story runaway pancake.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fnEj6x0nFDI follow link to listen to the story.

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Pancake day story

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African drumming

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African drumming workshop was fantastic! The children learned about jembo djembe drums, how they are made and how to use them in different ways, changing tempo and pitch. 

 

Joakim brought in Rainmaker and a Flute.

 

Little Chicks took turns to be the Maestro chancing the sound from…

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music

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African Dancing

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Little Chicks have been learning African dance.

Learning to dance to the beat and the rhythm of a sequence of moves.

Little Chicks thoroughly enjoyed dancing.

 

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music dance movement

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Handa's Surprise and Favourite books

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Little Chicks have been retellling the story Handa's Surprise in story order.

 

Alfie could recall all of the story in order.

 

Listen to the story and then try to retell in order.

follow the link to listen https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XyIV_xYi0as

 

Little Chicks…

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Handa's Surprise P.E

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We have been dancing to some African music and moving like some of the animals in the story.

Handa carried the fruit to her friends house on her head. We split into two teams and had races carrying a basket on our heads. It was too difficult for us to balance the basket so we did hold on to…

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Handa's Surprise fruit snacks

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Throughout the week Little Chicks will try a different fruit for their snack.

Monday we tried mango

Little Chicks find their name cards, use tongs to reach for mango, pour their milk and pack away when finished.

 

Miss Taylor "What does it taste like?"

Joakim "It was…

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taste test healthy snack time describing food

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Letter of the week M

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Little Chicks have been learning about the letter M. They have been looking at objects beginning with M, writing on the whiteboard letter M and words beginning with M. Joined Captainn Seasalt on the treasure isalnd M.

 

 

follow link to learn the letter m song 

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writing phonics Speaking and Listening Singing

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Africa fascinating facts

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Little Chicks have been learning about Africa.

 

 

Animals                                                    Egyptian Pyramids                       Victoria Falls

 

 

Serengeti National Park                                 African Safari                           …

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geography Understanding the World

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Handa's Surprise

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Little Chicks are learning about warm climates as part of this learning we have read Handa's Surprise we have looked at the different fruits and animals in the story. We looked at the setting in Africa and will learn about the country throughout the week.

Throughout the week Little Chicks will…

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reading pshe science Understanding the World story

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Alliteration

This week as part of our phonics time we are looking at alliteration. The children looked at a PowerPoint which explained that alliteration is where words start with the same letter or sound like Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck. They also had a go at saying some tongue twisters like, 'Peter Piper…

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Weaving

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Little Chicks are trying their hand at weaving this week. They are using card with slots cut into it and wool which they have weaved in and out of the slots.

  

The children chose wool of various colours and thicknesses. With support to change direction the children manipulated the wool in…

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fine motor Physical development Creative learning

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Emotions and feelings

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Little Chicks have been looking at their emotions and feelings each day we have read a different story and then discussed the way we feel with different emotions.

 

 

Little Chicks have filled in a emotion table expressing how they feel.

 

 

Little Chicks painted a self…

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reading pshe

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