Spring Weather and learning outdoors

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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

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Little Chicks PE

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Little Chicks have listened to the story Where The Wild Things Are, one Little Chick was chosen to be Max and they re-enacted movements that the Wild Things might do and then when Max says Stop, they have to sit down on the floor or freeze like a statue.

 

Little Chicks sat in…

Category: Little Chicks

Physical development music and movement.

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Where The Wild Things Are

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If you spotted some 'Wild Things' out in the woods today it was only our Ducklings and Little Chicks! After introducing our story 'Where the Wild Things Are', the children put on their 'wolf suits' and stomped off to the woods next to school for a good old rumpus. There was so much exploring to do…

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Little Chicks PE

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Little Chicks have listened to the story Where The Wild Things Are, one Little Chick was chosen to be Max and they re-enacted movements that the Wild Things might do and then when Max says Stop, they have to sit down on the floor or freeze like a statue.

 

 

Little Chicks moved in…

Category: Little Chicks

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Pancake Races

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We had great fun last week, celebrating pancake day by having our own pancakes races!! We also loved seeing if we could flip our pancakes and catch them again!

      

Category: Ducklings

Physical development Pancake day

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Outdoor Three Billy Goats Gruff

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Little Chicks have used the planks and crates to recreate the story Three Billy Goats Gruff.

 

 

Little Chicks use their skills to balance across the bridge and get past the Troll.

 

Category: Little Chicks

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Outdoors Three Billy Goats Gruff and Pancake races.

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Little chick re-enacted the story Three Billy Goats Gruff using the crates and planks to make a bridge to cross the river to the other side.


 

 

Little Chicks used the bats and .beanbags to represent making pancakes that had a race and a go at flipping the pancake.

 

Category: Little Chicks

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Little Chicks PE

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Little chicks have been learning team games, they had a warm first then they were put into two teams.

Yellow and green team.

First team game was to run to the cone and run back, tag your team player then first team to go through all team players is the winner.

Second team game was to…

Category: Little Chicks

Physical development follow instruction

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Little Chicks PE

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Little chicks have been learning team games, they had a warm first then they were put into two team.

 

The first game was to run to the cone, run back and then tag their friend, first to win when all players had took a turn.

 

The second game was to balance the quiot on their head…

Category: Little Chicks

Physical development

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Peace Out Meditation

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As our weekly meditation continues, the child's techniques to relax, breath and unwind improve and progress. They are great at finding a comfortable way to sit or lie and use their imaginations to follow a relaxing story. What a great way to end a day!

Category: Ducklings

Physical development PSED

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House of Sticks

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Following on from reading The Three Little Pigs, these girls decided that they wanted to collect sticks and build a house with them. They gathered all of the resources together that they needed and worked as a team to create their stick house.

        

Category: Ducklings

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Chinese New Year Cosmic Yoga

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In P.E this morning we did Chinese New Year Cosmic Yoga. We followed the story of the ‘Great Race’ which decided on which animal would represent which year in the Chinese Zodiac. We copied the poses for each animal and the Jade Emperor.

 

The children created some super poses.

To…

Category: Little Chicks

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