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Prepositions
Outside this week the children are showing us their understanding of prepositions by placing the teddy, in, on, under, behind, next to, in front and through an object.
Category: Little Chicks
Chinese New Year Cosmic Yoga
In P.E this morning we did Chinese New Year Cosmic Yoga. We followed the story of the ‘Great Race’ which decided on which animal would represent which year in the Chinese Zodiac. We copied the poses for each animal and the Jade Emperor.
The children created some super poses.
To…
Category: Little Chicks
P.E. Physical development listening
Winter welly walk
A lovely morning outdoors on a welly walk, Little Chicks took clip boards to do observational drawings.
They walked on the crisp grass. Climbed the tyre and made handprints in the frost.
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Owls say “namaste”
We had a very relaxing start to our morning by doing some yoga. We learnt some new poses, how to control our breathing and all about how yoga first began. Have a look at our pictures
Category: Owls
In the Hot Seat
As part of our 'Goldilocks and the Three Bears' topic this week, we explored the drama technique of 'hot seating'. When a child sat on the 'hot seat', they transformed into a character from our story. They then had to answer questions presented to them from the other children.
Here, Goldilocks…
Category: Ducklings
English Speaking and Listening drama retelling story
Namaste, Ducklings
The children got to experience a wonderful yoga session this week with our lovely Yogi instructor, Sophie. She guided the children in mindfulness, stretching, breathing and how to help techniques to help our bodies be calm and peaceful.
Category: Ducklings
Weighing and Number bonds
This week we have been comparing the weights of two different objects using the balance scales.
We explored balancing the scales further by putting the number 5 numicon piece on one side and the children had to figure out how to make the scales balance, but there were no more number 5 pieces…
Category: Ducklings
Making human scales
In Maths this week we have been looking at scales and how they help us to weigh objects. We decided to see if we could turn ourselves into scales, placing heavy and light objects into each side to observe what happened. Here, we managed to create a balance!
Category: Ducklings
Letter of the week g
Little Chicks have been learning the letter g. They have learnt the letter g song, found the letter g in the classroom, used their finger to drew in the air,wrote the letter g on their white boards and identified pictures beginning with g on the interactive board.
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writing Singing Letter of the week
Little Chicks Yoga
Little Chicks and a visit from the Yoga instructor.
We began with breathing exercises.
Moving body side to side gentle stretching.
Legs out stretched and circulating the knee.
Cat pose.
Cobra.
Tree …
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Yoga
The Ducklings enjoyed their yoga session today. They learnt some different poses and were very relaxed and calm.
Category: Ducklings
Yoga
Today, we had a special visitor who came in and taught us some yoga positions. The children thoroughly enjoyed it and learnt to control their breathing.
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