How do you feel today?

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As part of Children's Mental Health Awareness week, we have been talking about how we are feeling each day, what might be making us feel this way and what we can do to help us feel differently.  We have also talked about the different things that make us feel happy.

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Children's Mental health Awareness Week

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We have spent a little bit of time each day participating in different activities that help to create positive mental well-being. We have enjoyed listening to classical music, trying meditation and yoga, doing mindfulness colouring and moving to music. The children all said that they enjoyed doing…

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Finding the total

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The Ducklings have been finding the total of two amounts in different ways.

First of all, they have been using their subitising skills to 'see' how many spots are on each dice without the need to count.

They have then been finding the total by using their knowledge of number bonds (pairs of…

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Mental Health Awareness Week

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We have been super busy this week with thinking about our mental health and things that make us calm, happy and safe. Today we tried some mindfulness colouring whilst listening to relaxing music. 

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Emotions and feelings

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Little Chicks have been looking at their emotions and feelings each day we have read a different story and then discussed the way we feel with different emotions.

 

 

Little Chicks have filled in a emotion table expressing how they feel.

 

 

Little Chicks painted a self…

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KS1 Author Visit

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This week in Parrots we were lucky enough to have a visit from author, Sarah Roberts, who wrote the story Somebody Swallowed Stanley and Somebody Crunched Colin. The stories are themed around pollution and how important it is so not litter and recycle, reduce and reuse. Parrots we extremely lucky…

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Favourite Books

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Little Chicks have been rhyming words, we have read a few rhyming books and favourite books from home.

 

 

Emma brought in Oi Frog

 

Aubrey brought in Wonkey Donkey

 

 

Joakim The Little Penguin

 

 

George Jack Frost 

 

 

Solomon Monkey…

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Learning tricky words

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We learn our tricky words in lots of different ways. One of the Ducklings favourite things to do is the Speed Trial Challenge. The children try to beat their own personal time to get as many tricky words correct as possible. 

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Letter of the week L

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Little Chicks have been learning about the letter L. They have been looking at objects beginning with L, writing on the whiteboard letter L and words beginning with L.

 

 

Little Chicks have been learning the L song follow link to learn song 

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ICT

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Little Chicks operated the Easi-cars, they had to turn on the switch and then negotiate the road using the forward and reverse arrow keys, they were supported to change direction with verbal prompts.

 

 

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Finding 2D shapes

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This week we are learning about 2D shapes and their properties. When we were outside we went on a shape hunt, we found circles, rectangles and squares.

I wonder if we will find any triangles, pentagons or hexagons?

Click on the link to see what shapes we have found so far: 

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Little Chicks Celebrating Chinese New Year

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Some of our Little Chicks have been trying Chinese food at home. They have even had a go at eating with chopsticks!

   

 

All this food looks really yummy! I can see spring rolls, rice, prawn toast, noodles and sweet and sour.

They even had fortune cookies! 

  

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