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Chineses Zodiac Year of the Tiger
Little Chicks have been learning the signs of the Chinese Zodiac. They have made a badge that shows the animal of the year they were born.
Little Chicks were either a Rooster or a Dog.
Rooster Dog
Harley …
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Understanding the World Multicultural Chinese new year
All About shapes
We have been learning all about 3D shapes and this week we are using different shapes to create other shapes and structures.
Harley has used squares and triangles to form a triangular prism as the roof of his house and squares to create a cube for it to sit upon.
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Chinese New Year
Little Chicks have been learning about Chinese New Year. They watched Dragon dance and we then had a turn at role playing a Dragon and a Lion dancing.
Little Chicks had a go at acting out dance moves to the music and then joined on the coloured Dragon to dance to the…
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Chinese new year music and movement.
Learning about the Inuit people
This week we are learning about the Inuit people who inhabit the Arctic. Here, the girls made a hood to carry their baby, just as the Inuit do.
Category: Ducklings
Chinese Lanterns
look at our lovely Chinese Lanterns! We have been practising our cutting skills to create the slits in the lantern. Red and gold are very lucky colours for the Chinese so we have used these colours to bring everyone good luck for the New Chinese Year.
Category: Little Chicks
Rocking Tigers
The Chinese are celebrating their New Year this week (1st February). 2022 is the year of the tiger and the children are creating their own tigers using paper plates. We have also found out that the children who were born in 2017 were born in the year of the rooster and those born in 2018 were born…
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Chinese Letters
This week we are celebrating Chinese New Year. The children have traced and painted over some Chinese letters of the alphabet.
Would you like to write these letters?
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Help to melt!
This week the Ducklings were called upon to help some polar animals that were trapped in ice.
They had to investigate how they could melt the ice the quickest by adding water, salt, sugar or flour to the ice.
The Ducklings made their predictions first and then observed the changes to the…
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Bird Spotting
After making our bird feeders, the children have now been patiently waiting to see which birds they can spot and identify them.
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big bird watch Understanding the World
Reading digraphs
In phonics we are learning to read and write words with digraphs in. A digraph is when two letters make one sound, such as 'th' and 'ng.' The digraphs could be at the start, in the middle or at the end of a word.
Category: Ducklings
Weight wonder
The Ducklings have been comparing the weight of different objects this week. They have felt the weight of the objects in their hands first to help them predict the heaviest and lightest. They then used the balance scales to see if they were correct. They also explored how to make the scales…
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Making snowflakes
The children have been exercising their funky fingers and using their fine motor skills to create snowflakes. They constructed them using cocktail sticks and mini marshmallows.
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