Blog by Tag: outdoor learning
Spring Weather and learning outdoors
You may have noticed your child coming home a little dirtier than usual. As the Spring progresses, we have been busy planting Spring flowers, weeding, exploring the changes around us, transporting and being outside enjoying the sunshine one moment, then rain the next! We love the fact our children…
Category: Ducklings
outdoor learning Physical development
Outdoor fun
Today, the weather has been extremely changeable but it didn't stop the Ducklings having fun outside! They have been colour mixing, using their gross motor skills to sweep and jump, practising their phonics and splashing in muddy puddles!
Category: Ducklings
A visit to where the wild things are!
Today, after reading the story, 'Where the Wild Things are,' we went on our own adventure to the 'forest' near school.
Just like in the story, we had our own 'wild rumpus.' We had great fun singing, dancing, making music, exploring, pretending, climbing, balancing, swinging and rolling!!
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Category: Ducklings
Winter welly walk
A lovely morning outdoors on a welly walk, Little Chicks took clip boards to do observational drawings.
They walked on the crisp grass. Climbed the tyre and made handprints in the frost.
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Category: Little Chicks
All the small things
One of the best things about Early Years are the small, incidental moments as these are the moments that bring the most joy and wonder to our children. This week, some children discovered a baby slug in their 'soup' when working in the mud kitchen.
A slug rescue then ensued, and before we…
Category: Ducklings
outdoor learning Understanding the World PSED
Composing numbers 4 and 5
In Maths this week we are thinking about numbers 4 and 5. We have been looking at how these numbers are composed, more and less than and subitising different amounts.
The children have been busy making 4 and 5 in different ways, both indoors and outdoors.
Category: Ducklings
Construction fun
The Ducklings have loved the new addition to our outdoor construction area - some old go-kart tyres. They were quick to create their own ideas of what to build with large construction equipment. They have built racing cars, fire engines and bridges.
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Category: Ducklings
outdoor learning construction Creative learning Role-play
Muddy puddles
Little Chicks enjoy muddy puddles after rain stopped wearing their puddle suits and stomping.
Go on a muddy puddle walk to your local park.
Category: Little Chicks
Our garden area transformation
Over the past few weeks, you may have noticed some changes to our outdoor garden space. With the support from parent volunteers, we are managing to clear heavily planted areas as a start to improving the space for our children's learning.
A huge 'Thank you' to our Duckling parents who have…
Category: Ducklings
Outdoor learning
Little Chicks and Ducklings noticed that in the outdoor learning there were tiny apples on the ground. We collected them and showed to the classes, they were crab apples. We are looking at the change in seasons and what changes to the outdooors.
Little Chicks helped to collect card to…
Category: Little Chicks
Fun in the Rain!
Little Chicks and Ducklings had fun in the rain this afternoon!
We first made sure we all had on our puddle suits and wellies. It took us a while and some of us need to practise putting on our puddle suit, but once we were all ready we headed out onto the playground to jump and dance in the…
Category: Little Chicks
Getting ready to learn outdoors
As part of settling into school, we have been learning how to put on our puddle suits and wellies ready to go and learn outside.
Category: Ducklings