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Frog life cycle
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We have been taking care of the tadpoles in our pond. They didn't start of as tadpoles though, they were first frog spawn. We have been learning the life cycle of the frog so that we can watch the tadpoles grow and become frogs. The next stage is the formation of back legs on the tadpole followed…
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Nibby's Visit
On Monday Nibby came to visit us. Nibby is an illustrator and he showed us some of the illustrations he has done for stories, colouring books, posters and pictures of houses and families people have requested.
Nibby then helped us to create an imaginary sea creature. We told him what it…
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Under the Sea
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Little Chicks are in their element dancing. As part of our topic on Under the Sea we have been doing various movements to the music.
Swaying, jiggling, toe tapping, role playing sea creatures.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a3iJjUKWrkk follow the link to dance along shimming and…
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Letter of the week P
The letter of the week is P, Little Chicks have been finding objects that begin with P.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CDo6o9Wmn60 follow link to learn P song.
Find objects around you're home beginning with P and draw a picture.
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Building enclosures
Today we have been building enclosures for an animal using Duplo bricks. To create an enclosure we have to build horizontally and vertically.
See how we all got on by clicking on the link: https://www.carletongreen.lancs.sch.uk/photo-galleries/building-enclosures
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Printing repeating patterns
This week we have been looking at repeating patterns. We have used colour and shapes to make patterns. We have also printed repeating patterns onto fish using celery to create the fishes scales.
To see our patterns click on the link: …
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Letter of the week O
Letter of the week is O, Little Chicks have been finding objects that begin with O.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VKM1urR9mCo follow link for O song and objects beginning with O.
Find objects around the house that begin with O.
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Recycling Sorting
As part of our theme on The Ocean, Under the Sea Little Chicks and Ducklings have sorted through rubbish found on the beach.
They placed the objects in categories, paper, card or plastic. After sorting it was clear that the most rubbish was found in the plastic catergory.
Little…
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Looking at changes in our environment
Just before the Easter holidays we had frog spawn in the pond. Today we couldn't see any frog spawn but 'loads of tadpoles'.
The children shared with me their knowledge of the life cycle of the frog. We will be watching closely to see the next stage when they form their back legs.
To…
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The Ocean and Under the Sea
Our new topic is The Ocean and Under the Sea. Little Chicks and Ducklings looked at what we had found at the beach. We will be looking at the effects of littering has on our Oceans and Seas.
Mrs Lees read the story Somebody Swallowed Stanley.
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Growing cress
Little Chicks have been observing the growth of cress.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P2F0vImnX follow link to watch Growing Cress Timelapse and have a go at growing over the holidays.
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Egg hunting
Little Chicks hunted for coloured eggs in the garden, they had a number on each egg. They had to document what colour they found on their worksheet to the corresponding number, they enjoyed this activity being immensely engaged.
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