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Composing numbers 9 and 10
In Maths this week the children are making 9 and 10 in many different ways. They are thinking about one more and one less, counting objects to make amounts, subitising and comparing numbers and amounts.
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Saluting Soldiers
In Phonics today we introduced the 'ai' digraph through a fun game called 'Saluting Soldiers'. The children had to segment a word to their Captain, who had to blend and write the word.
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phonics Speaking and Listening
Where The Wild Things Are
If you spotted some 'Wild Things' out in the woods today it was only our Ducklings and Little Chicks! After introducing our story 'Where the Wild Things Are', the children put on their 'wolf suits' and stomped off to the woods next to school for a good old rumpus. There was so much exploring to do…
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A visit to where the wild things are!
Today, after reading the story, 'Where the Wild Things are,' we went on our own adventure to the 'forest' near school.
Just like in the story, we had our own 'wild rumpus.' We had great fun singing, dancing, making music, exploring, pretending, climbing, balancing, swinging and rolling!!
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Where the Wild Things Are
Our new topic is ‘Out of This World’ and we started our new topic by reading the book ‘Where the Wild Things Are’. In the story Max puts on a wolf costume and gets sent to bed for causing mischief. In a dream he goes on a journey to the ‘Wild Place’, where he becomes king of the wild…
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Little Chicks PE
Little Chicks have listened to the story Where The Wild Things Are, one Little Chick was chosen to be Max and they re-enacted movements that the Wild Things might do and then when Max says Stop, they have to sit down on the floor or freeze like a statue.
Little Chicks moved in…
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Pancake Races
We had great fun last week, celebrating pancake day by having our own pancakes races!! We also loved seeing if we could flip our pancakes and catch them again!
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Physical development Pancake day
Troll Faces
We used loose parts to create our own ugly troll faces! Do they scare you?!
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Creative learning Funky Fingers
Making pancakes
Making pancakes for Shrove Tuesday was fun and we got to learn about the changes that happen when you mix different ingredients together and cook them.
The best bit was definitely eating them though!
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Rolling, rolling, rolling!
The Ducklings have been practising all of the different kinds of rolls that they know - pencil roll, rock and roll, teddy bear roll, barrel roll and egg roll. They have have also been taught how to do a forward roll correctly and safely this week.
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Outdoor Three Billy Goats Gruff
Little Chicks have used the planks and crates to recreate the story Three Billy Goats Gruff.
Little Chicks use their skills to balance across the bridge and get past the Troll.
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Troll and Billy Goat food faces
As part of our topic on Three Billy Goats Gruff, Little Chicks have used a choice of fruit and vegetables to design a Troll or a Billy Goat character and then gobbled it up for their snack.
Little Chicks enjoyed designing and eating their character.
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