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Dressing ourselves for P.E
The Ducklings amazed us this week with their efforts to get changed into full P.E kit. It's a lot to remember all of the steps in being organised, independent and resilient when getting dressed and undressed and we got off to a great start. Each week our fingers will get stronger tackling those…
Category: Ducklings
Going crazy with numbers
Over the past few weeks the children have been showing us what they know about numbers. They have been recognising numbers around us, ordering numbers 1-10 and beyond, recognising a deliberate mistake with numbers in order, counting out an amount and matching numbers to quantities. Phew! They have…
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Threading and Sewing
The children have been developing their fine motor skills through our whole school Dat topic of sewing. The children have been encouraged to thread using a large needle, select their own materials and sew the first letter of their name. We have spotted some natural sewing stars!
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Drawing and painting self portraits
Over the past few weeks the children have been busy drawing and painting their self portraits. They have been looking at themselves closely in the mirror to include fine details in their drawings and consider colour. The results on our class display are wonderful!
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Parrots' Roald Dahl Day
The children in Parrots had a wonderful Roald Dahl day. We predicted what different Roald Dahl stories were about and then listened to different snippets before voting on our favourite and writing about why the beginning of this book would make us want to read on.
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Little Chicks mark Making
We have been tracing over dotted lines and looking at how the children hold their pencil or crayon and how much control they have over it. To help the children achieve the correct pencil hold we place the pencil on the table with the point facing them, we then get them to use their pinching…
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Sound activities
The Little Chicks are learning about hearing this week. What do we use to hear?
The Little Chicks learnt sounds through Sound Bingo, they had to identify the picture to the corresponding sound on the CD and take the picture of the screen.
Category: Little Chicks
All very settled
The Ducklings have all had another lovely week at school and are very settled.
Look at the photo gallery here...
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Our sewing skills
We have been using our fine motor skills to 'sew' the first letter of our names. We chose different materials and techniques.
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Our Portraits
Look at all of our amazing drawings and paintings for our self-portraits. They make a lovely display.
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Funky fingers
We have been strengthening our finger muscles by weaving ribbons onto wire trays. This also helped us with our sewing.
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Writing our names
We have been practising writing our names in lots of different ways.
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