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Balancing Act
In Ducklings today we have been perfecting our balancing acts.
During the warm up we rehearsed different balances. We balanced on two feet, one foot, one hand and one foot, two hands and one foot, one hand and two feet, our backs and bottoms too. Ask your child to demonstarte the balances they…
Category: Ducklings
Chinese New Year
Last week at Little Chicks we have been learning all about Chinese New Year!
We enjoyed some chinese food tasting, learnt about the story behind the chinese zodiac and made stir frys in the mud kitchen! Very yummy!
We also showed off our cutting skills by making lucky chinese…
Category: Little Chicks
New Reading Books
We were very excited this week to choose our new reading books. We are very lucky to now have a new reading scheme which goes all the way through school. Miss Howarth has been assessing us this week and then we all chose our new reading book from the scheme. There are so many to choose from and we…
Category: Owls
* Role Play and Playscripts in PSHE
The children in Doves' Class have been discussing the value of money and how not to take it for granted. They created a role play of a scenario between a mother and a daughter, where they have discussed how children should earn some of the things they get and that children shouldn't just expect…
Category: Doves
Catching skills
This week we are practising and improving our catching skills. We quickly realised you have to keep your eyes on the ball, stand steadily on two feet and push the ball up in the air. Those Ducklings who are already competent throwers practised throwing at different heights and different…
Category: Ducklings
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Skittles subtraction
The Ducklings have been learning to subtract by playing skittles. They have been saying a number story by saying how many skittles to begin with, how many are knocked down and finally how many are left.
Category: Ducklings
Taking away
The Ducklings have been learning to subtract or take-away using pictures or real objects to help them count back. We have also learned how to write the number sentence or sum each time.
Category: Ducklings
Observing ice
We loved looking closely at the ice that we found in our school garden. We thought of lots of different words to describe it.
Category: Ducklings
Mark making in the frost!
The cold weather has brought us lots of lovely frost to practise our writing in!
Category: Ducklings
Our bird feeders
We have one pigeon who visits our school garden everyday! We think it is managing to eat most of the bird cakes we have made all by itself!
Category: Ducklings
"Doves' Class Go Bird Watching".
This week in Doves' Class we have been learning more about wild birds. The children have been watching out for the different species of birds that visit our school grounds. In addition to this, the children have researched different birds and created a fact file all about them. They have also used…
Category: Doves
Owls Big Bird Watch
This week in Owls we have had a fun week of learning based on bird watching.
We have researched and found out about many different types of birds and went out to spot as many as we could. We then wrote about what we saw. In Maths we created a tally of how many birds we saw in a period of time…
Category: Owls
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