Shapes in the environment

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Little Chicks have been learning 2d shapes. They had a shape chart and they had to find objects with shapes in the environment.

 

 

Rectangular shoe box                        Circular pan                           Square chalkboard

 

Little Chicks have been learning about…

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Letter of the week W

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Letter of the week is W. Little Chicks played the Silly soup game putting items in the soup bowl that begin with W.

 

follow link for w song https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PlDPegyV6XI

follow link for vocabulary and blending https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LiTcZ2w5JGc

Jolly Phonics W - YouTube

 

Why…

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The Colour Monster

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Today and throughout the week we will be reading the story ' The Colour Monster' by Anna Llenas. It is a lovely book which explores feelings and colours associated with feelings. The children are making their own colour monster and explaining why they have chosen the colour and how it makes them…

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Rhyming words

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Little Chicks have been learning rhyming words to music. Little Chicks enjoy learning through music

 

follow link to watch and join https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cSPmGPIyykU

follow link to watch and join https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5T52TCrQ2M4

 

 

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Rhyme phonics Active learning music and movement.

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Mrs Rainbow

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The new topic is based on colours we have been learning about Mrs Rainbow house.

 

follow the link to listen to the story https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WRE--mj3SeA

 

The Little Chicks have made rainbow college pictures, cutting and sticking.

 

 

Look for colours in the…

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3D shapes

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Little Chicks have ben learning about 3d shapes. They are learning the names, the different quantities faces, sides and vertices on each shape.

 

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Little Chicks use the shape cards to match shapes.

 

Little Chicks use a variety of construction equipment to make 3D…

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Maths numbers 1-10

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Little Chicks have been using whiteboards to write number 1-10. We counted the shapes on the screen and then wrote the number on their whiteboards.

Little Chicks enjoy writing on whiteboards.

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Counting Pizza Party

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Little Chicks have been using Education.com to support their learning the program helps to learn counting, following instructions and 1-1 correspondence.

The program has other number challenges that the Little Chicks were engrossed in completing.

Follow the link to try out the program…

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Drawing boats

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We have chosen different water transport to draw. We are trying hard to use lines to create shapes to represent objects, such as triangles as sails, a rectangle as the hull or mast. Practise drawing simple shapes at home to create pictures.

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Maths

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Little Chicks had a treasure hunt searching for the pictures around the room. Once found they had to count the pictures on the card and document the number counted.

 

 

Make a treasure hunt at home to find numbers around the home and document onto a whiteboard.

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Marine Biologist

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Marine Biologist Miss Wilson and colleague Miss Brookfield visited Little Chicks to teach them about the Marine life.

Strandlines can be found on the beach, these have many Marine animals which we investigated an each of our tables.

 

The children enjoyed looking at the different…

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Dot-to-Dots

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Today we have been doing dot-to-dot puzzles. We can recite numbers to 10 and are getting very good at recognising them too. Lots of us had never done any dot-to-dots at home and we really enjoyed following the numbers and completing the pictures.

To see more of our spring dot-to-dots please…

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