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Language initial letter sounds
This week Little Chicks are looking at the initial letter of words. We placed picture cue cards on the floor the children had to place the card to the correct initial letter on the chalk board. This week we are looking at the letters, a, t, i, p,n and s.
Have a look around the house…
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2D Dinosaurs
We have used the glittery 2D shapes to create a dinosaur.
Do you think we used the right shapes for the different parts of the dinosaur?
Do you know what shapes we have used?
To see more of our dinosaurs click on the link:…
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Dinosaur Park
Welcome back, Little Chicks and Ducklings were introduced to The Dinosaur Park.
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Welcome back Ducklings!
We are so thrilled to have our amazing Ducklimgs back at school. They have coped amazingly well with the busy school day and have remembered rules and routines brilliantly. They have been keen to show what they have learned in lockdown and have been busy cracking on with lolly stick challenges…
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World Book Day
Little Chicks celebrated World book day.
Baroness Gail RebuckAs World Book Day founder, Baroness Gail Rebuck, recalls “We wanted to do something to reposition reading and our message is the same today as it was then – that reading is fun, relevant, accessible, exciting, and has the power to…
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Size ordering
We have been putting the dinosaurs in order of size.
We have also been thinking of the words we could use to describe the size of something. Here are the words we thought of: Large, small, big, little, tiny, huge, miniscule, enormous, gigantic, teeny, fat, thin, tall, short, humongous, massive,…
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Art and Craft
Little Chicks have been creative making 3D models of Dinosaurs. They chose parts of a body, then painted the parts of the body, finally joining it together.
We have put them on our display board, eventually to go home.
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Comparisons
Little Chicks have been looking at comparisons. They were shown different sized Dinosaurs and asked to place them in size order.
Little Chicks took turns to place the Dinosaurs in order, we learnt language to explain size.
Small, tiny, little, minuscule.
Large, big, massive,…
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Treasure Hunt
Little Chicks Treasure Hunt took them around the garden, they had a picture sheet on a clipboard with pictures of dinosaurs Little Chicks had to find the corresponding pictures found around the garden. Then count how many were on the picture and log the number on the sheet.
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Rhyming Match
Little Chicks are working hard on their rhyming.
We have been matching the words which rhyme.
Car - star
Cat - bat
Frog - dog
Mouse - house
Fox - box
Can you think of another word which rhymes with each…
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Last week's super home learning
Well done boys you have done some really super mark making this week. Holding your mark making tools correctly and even copying some letters.
We have been learning the song The Dinosaur Dance and joining in the actions, some of us have even been practising at home!
Super throwing…
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Dinosaurs
Little Chicks have been enjoying discovering about Dinosaurs. They have been into the Jungle and off to the Island in search of the Tyrannosaurus, Raptors and Brachiosaurus amongst many.
Little Chicks initiated building cages for the Dinosaurs. Eventually the children became the…
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