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Chinese New Year
We were very lucky to have a visit from Mrs Cheung who came to talk to us all about how she and her family celebrate Chinese New Year. We got to look at some red money envelopes that the children are given as gifts, try on some traditional costumes and and find out why tangerines and their leaves…
Category: Ducklings
Open Afternoon
This week, we welcomed our families into class to celebrate Chinese New Year with us. We made dragons and lanterns, role played in our Chinese new year home corner, shared stories, did dragon dancing and lots more!
Thank you for coming!
Category: Ducklings
Open afternoon Chinese new year
Making 6, 7 and 8
This week the Ducklings have been exploring different ways to make 6, 7 and 8. They have been using objects to help them subitise and see how numbers are made up of smaller numbers.
"I can think there is 6 because I can see 4 and 2."
Category: Ducklings
Eagles Science Investigation - Digestion - 25th January 2023
Today we had the opportunity to investigate how our bodies digest food and liquid using old tights! Take a look at what we did.
Category: Eagles
The Story of the Chinese zodiac by Dawn Casey
Little Chicks listened to the story The story of the Chinese zodiac by Dawn Casey.
Miss Taylor “Can you retell some of the story and a character that was in the story.”
River “They made a calendar, a tiger.”
Aurelia “The Monkey, the rat pushed the cat
Hunter “Is a dog, there’s a…
Category: Little Chicks
Chinese new year retelling story
Little Chicks number 7
Little Chicks have learning the number 7, they have been layering the number 7 song, writing number 7 on the interactive board, finding number 7 in the classroom, counting out to number 7 and putting numbers in order 0-7.
follow number 7 - number songs for StoryBots …
Category: Little Chicks
writing Singing follow instruction number
Maths 24.1.23
In maths we have moved on to multiplication. Yesterday, we took the opportunity to go outside and group objects into equal groups. We also used the chalk to created equal groups and write stem sentences for them.
Category: Robins
Division in Owls
I am super proud of the year 3’s today. They have been working hard learning how to divide 3 digit numbers using the bus stop method. Some were even doing calculations with remainders. Well done Owls
Category: Owls
Open Afternoon
It was lovely to see so many parents attending our open afternoon. Sorry if your child wasn’t is Little Chicks today we will endeavour to ensure the next one is on a different day.
We hope you enjoyed it as much as the children appeared to, showing you all the different activities and areas…
Category: Little Chicks
Celebrating Chinese New Year
Little Chicks have been celebrating Chinese New Year and learning about their customs and celebrations.
The Chinese New Year Story and the characters.
Writing Chinese letter a and numbers. Role play the dragon.
Tasting Chinese cuisine,…
Category: Little Chicks
Role-play Chinese new year number describing food
Mrs Chang’s Visit
Mrs Chung is a teaching student in school who very kindly came to talk to Little Chicks and Ducklings about Chinese New Year. She told us how they clean the house and have a nice bath with orange or grapefruit leaves in.
Mrs Chung told us how they decorate the house with lanterns, fish and…
Category: Little Chicks
Understanding the World Chinese new year
PSHE 23.1.23
In PSHE we discussed what we should do in certain situations to keep ourselves safe. We read a story and asked "What should Harold say" and the children went to the answer they thought was correct: "I'll ask, I'll tell, yes or no".
Category: Robins