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Autumn PE
We've had weekly lessons focussing on building our throwing and catching skills.
Our focus has been chest passes and bounce passes while trying to outwit defenders.
This week Kestrel class have been thinking about rules, fair play and sportsmanship and how this can change the game that we…
Category: Kestrels
Group maths
This week we have been thinking about exchanging when adding two numbers together.
Yesterday, we worked in small groups to show the different ways we could show how we do this using place value charts alongside the column method.
Category: Kestrels
Harvest
Little Chicks learnt about planting wheat, they learnt what is made from wheat.
They listened to the story The Little Red Hen.
follow link to watch https://youtu.be/JTCsL26vob4
Little Chicks re-enacted the story in the role play with cue cards to help prompt the…
Category: Little Chicks
Role-play harvest Story listening
Making animal homes
Can you make a home for an animal? What will it need to stay safe and dry? What would be the best materials to use? Our children are very busy working together to make suitable homes for a range of farm animals.
Category: Ducklings
Creating our own patterns
In Maths this week the children are learning all about repeating patterns. We are looking at a 'unit' of a pattern and then continuing that unit. The children will also be noticing errors in patterns and identifying patterns all around us.
Category: Ducklings
Scarecrow Mark Making
This week on the mark making table we are colouring and tracing the patterns on the scarecrow. Miss Taylor and I are looking to see how each child holds their pencil. The majority of the children appear to show a preference for their right hand, some haven’t full made up their mind yet and a…
Category: Little Chicks
fine motor Physical development mark making
How does it feel?
The Ducklings have been using their sense of touch to explore and describe how different objects feel.
"The grass feels tickly and soft!"
Category: Ducklings
countdown Speaking and Listening senses Understanding the World
Phoneme spotting
We love learning new phonemes (sounds) and spotting them and finding them around the classroom.
Category: Ducklings
Segementing to spell
We are beginning to be able to make or spell words by segmenting them out loud to help us hear the sounds/letters that are in them. We then put or write the letters in the correct order!
Category: Ducklings
Our helping 5
In PSED, we have been thinking about people who are important to us. We talked about how these might be people that we could turn to if we needed help. We each thought of 5 people who would be our 'Helping 5!'
Category: Ducklings
Comparing length, weight and capacity
In maths the Ducklings have been comparing the length, size, weight and capacity of different objects and using some of the comparative vocabulary to order them. They have been using vocabulary such as longest, shorter, heavier, lightest, full, empty and so on.
Category: Ducklings
PE 7.10.22
In P.E this week we have been practising our hopping skills in a range of ways. Each station is set up to enhance a particular skill and our hopping is already improving, as is our skill of jumping for distance.
Category: Ducklings