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Visit to the Garden Centre
We had a lovely morning out at the garden centre. We completed a fun quiz, made some wild flower bee bombs to bring home, scattered some seeds to make a meadow and explored all of the different kinds of plants that you can buy for your garden. The children's behaviour was outstanding! Well done. A…
Category: Ducklings
Programming the Beebot
The Ducklings have been learning to programme the Beebot robots in order to give them the correct instructions to direct them around the 'garden.'
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Summer 1
Kestrels are really enjoying their topic on Ancient Greece.
This week we have been writing our own versions of Greek myths. We will add these to our class library with our other writing. The children love picking up these books, finding their own and work and reading their classmates.
We…
Category: Kestrels
Life cycle of the Butterfly
Little Chicks have been learning the life cycle of the Butterfly. We listenend to the story Caterpillar Butterfly, The book is a non-fiction which teaches all about the life cycle of a caterpillar to the stage it becomes a butterfly, but it has a story element making this easier for children to…
Category: Little Chicks
science Life cycles story painting drawing
Letter of the week V
Little Chicks are learning the letter V they find objects beginning with V, write on the white boards words beginning with V, learn the jolly V song and join Captain Seasalt on Treasure island listening for words beginning with V.
follow link for ljolly v song …
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writing phonics Speaking and Listening Singing
Trip to the Garden Centre
Little Chicks and Ducklings visited The Plant Place. They engaged in sowing seeds, Craig the gardener showed the Little Chicks the varied plants in the centre and taught their names and how they grew, particularly in different environments and temperatures.
Little Chicks then went around the…
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Road safety Growing plants and seeds Active learning Quiz
Our trip to the Garden Centre
The children and adults alike had the best time today at The Plant Place Garden Center. The children took part in a quiz,searching for clues, got to plant seeds and scatter then into the new meadow, and learn about different types of plants and flowers. The children were amazing walking to and…
Category: Ducklings
visit science outdoor learning
Symmetrical Shape Butterflies
When reading the story 'If Only.....' by Neil Griffiths we noticed that the butterflies wing have the same pattern on each side. We have used 2D shapes which we know to create a pattern on the wings. We had to remember that if we put a red triangle on the left hand side wing at the top, we had to…
Category: Little Chicks
2D Shapes
We have been learning about 2D shapes. We were given the name of a shape and we had to stand on the shape.
The shapes were circle, square, triangle, rectangle, hexagon and oval.
To see more photos of us working click on the link: …
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Climbing
The Ducklings were very excited to have the large apparatus out in PE on which to explore climbing up, along, through and under the climbing frame.
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Construction fun!
The Ducklinngs have been selecting construction materials of their own choosing to make models of a flower.
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construction Creative learning
Spatial Awareness
The Ducklings have been making models using their spatial awareness to follow a plan.
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