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Science experiment with colours
Little Chicks experimented with Skittles to see what would happen when we added warm water to the sweets.
What other ways can you could you experiment at home ?
Carry out an experiment and let us know.
Category: Little Chicks
Mixing Colours
Little Chicks have been mixing Primary colours to Secondary colours. They have been discovering the different colours created by mixing two colours together.
Little Chicks enjoyed the activity and learnt the different combinations.
Red + Blue = Purple
Red + Yellow =…
Category: Little Chicks
Sounding out words
Little Chicks have been sounding out the letters of the alphabet and simple three letter words. Little Chicks took turns to find letters to a word and sound out the letters.
Make up three letter words and sound them out, cat, dog, hat, bat, for…
Category: Little Chicks
Jigsaws
Just look at how good we are getting at completing jigsaws!
To complete a jigsaw we have to:
- match shapes
- match colours
- have spatial awareness
- remain focused for a period of time
- pay attention to details.
We are very proud of our achievement.
Category: Little Chicks
Fantastic Field Day
Last Friday we had a wonderful day on the field; we went on an angle hunt, a leaf hunt (identifying leaves and seeing if we could work out what tree it was), minibeast hunts so we could classify any that we found! We also enjoyed following tracks and creating our own in the afternoon. This week we…
Category: Doves
Shapes in the environment
Little Chicks have been learning 2d shapes. They had a shape chart and they had to find objects with shapes in the environment.
Rectangular shoe box Circular pan Square chalkboard
Little Chicks have been learning about…
Category: Little Chicks
Letter of the week W
Letter of the week is W. Little Chicks played the Silly soup game putting items in the soup bowl that begin with W.
follow link for w song https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PlDPegyV6XI
follow link for vocabulary and blending https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LiTcZ2w5JGc
Why…
Category: Little Chicks
The Colour Monster
Today and throughout the week we will be reading the story ' The Colour Monster' by Anna Llenas. It is a lovely book which explores feelings and colours associated with feelings. The children are making their own colour monster and explaining why they have chosen the colour and how it makes them…
Category: Little Chicks
Music and Movement through speaking French
The children loved playing along to some of our favourite songs today, all whilst learning French with BilinguaSing.
Category: Ducklings
Learning French with Kath
The Ducklings has such a treat today when Kath from BilinguaSing came to teach us some French words and Songs. We learned some of our nursery rhyme favourites with music, props and had so much fun.
Category: Ducklings
French in Herons
Bonjour,
Today in Herons we had a very special visitor. A lady came in to teach us some French! We learnt lots of different words such as; different animal names, numbers and hello and goodbye.
Category: Herons
Kestrels Outdoor Fun
Yet another fun and busy week in Kestrels.
This week we have been working on Statistics in Maths. We have been interpreting data and drawing tally charts, pictograms and bar charts.
In our English lessons we have been writing recounts and begun to look at balanced arguments.
On Friday…
Category: Kestrels