Balancing Act

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In Ducklings today we have been perfecting our balancing acts.

During the warm up we rehearsed different balances. We balanced on two feet, one foot, one hand and one foot, two hands and one foot, one hand and two feet, our backs and bottoms too. Ask your child to demonstarte the balances they…

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Keeping Fit and Healthy

To keep our selfs fit and healthy we have to exercise.

Today it PE we discussed all the different ways we could exercise at home. The children came up with lots of ideas including; playing in the garden, going to the park, walking to school, going for a bike or scooter ride, walking the dog,…

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Tricky word throwing

The Ducklings have been improving their throwing technique and learning to read their tricky words. Today we combined the two and played a game in the playground. It made reading the words lots of fun and learning in an active way outdoors. Perhaps you could try this at home?

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Phonics time

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We are learning our sounds and finding them around our environment, reading and writing them on their own and in simple words.

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School Nurse Visit

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Today our School Nurse came into class to talk to us about keeping claen and staying healthy. The ducklings sat really nicely and listenend very carefully. They had lots of great ideas already about keeping healthy and staying clean. I'm sure they told you all about it and hopefully you've all had…

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~Fireworks Dance

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Today we watched and listened to Handel's music for fireworks. We thought of lots of diiferent words to describe the fireworks; explode, twirl, twist, zoom, sparkle. After that we put movements to the words and cretaed a dance together.

Have a look at our pictures here.

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PE in the ducklings

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WOW!

Everybody has worked so hard in the Ducklings this half term.

We have practised the fundamental skills of hopping, skipping, jumping, catching, throwingh, kicking and rolling. Everyone is at very different levels but these skills will be conitued throughout the year as we prepare for…

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Outdoor Art

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One way to develop our "Funky Fingers" in a fun way outdoors is through artwork. we used all the materials we collected on our Autumn welly walk to create marks on our cornflour dough mix. We created patterns with sticks, acorns, pine cones, leaves and conkers. When they've dried we will be able…

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Yellow Sports Person of the Day

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Jessica and Milo were the Yellow Ducklings Sports People of the day. They were enthusiastic and had a brilliant attitude to their work all morning. 

Well done you two!

 

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Brown's Sports Person of the Day

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Jaxon and Alice were fantastic in P.E. today. They both had excellent attitudes throughout the lesson and always tried hard with the fundamental skills we were learning.

Well done you two!

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Outdoor Physical skills

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Did you know that to be a successful writier our gross motor skills need to be developed too?

The ducklings were building up theor muscles ready to write by pushing tyres around the field. We had lots of fun too!

Have a look here.

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We can get dressed!!

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Our challenge in Ducklins every Tuesday is to get dressed all by oursleves. Of course the grown ups are always on hand to help but now we are at school its time to learn how to do it all by ourselves.

Have a look at all the ducklings who can get changed without any help

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