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CCVC word hunt
It was 'Game on!' last week, when the Ducklings were set the challenge of finding all of the CCVC words hidden around the classroom.
Get them to explain to you what a CCVC word is and to give you an example!
stop trap frog
Category: Ducklings
The life cycle of a plant
The Ducklings and Little Chicks have explored creating the life cycle of a plant by making play dough models of the different stages of grwoth. They lhave used new vocabulary such as root, shoot, sprout, stem, stalk, bud, leaf, flower and petal.
Category: Ducklings
Life cycles Growing plants and seeds
Composing Shapes
The Ducklings have been exploring how to compose (make) a shape, using other shapes. It has allowed them to explore the fact that a shape can be made up of other shapes. They have explored selecting, rotating and manipulating shapes during these activities. Through this spatial reasoning, they…
Category: Ducklings
Planting Green Beans
Little Chicks listenend to the story Stitch.
Little chicks have planted French beans we are discovering what plants need to grow. We have five different pots with seeds and varied components.
- Seeds, soil, but no water.
- Seeds, soil, water, placed in the dark.
- Seeds, soil,…
Category: Little Chicks
science experiment Growing plants and seeds
Letter of the week U
Little Chicks are learning the letter U they find objects beginning with U, write on the white boards words beginning with U, learn the jolly U song and join Captain Seasalt on Treasure island.
Playing the discover the picture U game.
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Writing the letter U using their finger in…
Category: Little Chicks
writing phonics Speaking and Listening Singing
Measuring objects in different ways
Little Chicks have been measuring different objects using varied resources.
Using straws to measure Using wooden blocks to measure Using unifix to measure
Little Chicks were imaginative at finding different ways to measure objects.
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Category: Little Chicks
Labelling of parts of a plant and Outdoor Learning
Little Chicks have been learning about the parts of a plant. They have named the parts of the plant and wrote the words onto their picture.
Labelling parts of the plant.
Mrs Hicks Outdoor Learning
Little Chicks have been taking the left over food to the composte bin. Litttle…
Category: Little Chicks
writing science Growing plants and seeds
Making Flowers
The other week we painted pictures of the flowers we could see in the garden. This week we are creating 3D flowers using a variety of materials such as coloured straws, tissue paper of various shapes and sizes, feathers, gummed paper, pom-poms and cupcake holders. The children have then had to…
Category: Little Chicks
Ordering objects according to size
This week we are having a go at ordering objects according to their size. We are using the language taller, tallest, shorter, shortest, longer and longest. Most of the children can order three objects according to height or length but we did push them to try and order six objects!
I was very…
Category: Little Chicks
Snack Time
You can create pictures with anything! These two boys became creative with their snack placing blueberries and grapes onto their crackers to create a face.
Fantastic idea boys!
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Letter 't'
The children have copied the letter 't' or the word beginning with 't'. We are really getting some super writers!
Well done Little Chicks!
Category: Little Chicks
Little Chicks' Jack and the Beanstalk Story
This week we have been reading different versions of the story Jack and the Beanstalk. We have also written our own version of the story.
The children's initials at the end of a sentence show who contributed the sentence.
I wonder if your child could tell you the…
Category: Little Chicks