On the moon

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Little Chicks new topic is on the move this week we are looking at the Moon. We read the story whatever next following Baby bear to the moon and back before bathtime. 
 

Little Chicks role play on the moon and small world rocket ship going to the Moon.

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reading Role-play Moon and facts

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A CRASH landing!

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This morning we discovered the most peculiar thing had happened in our classroom overnight. A little bear, wearing yellow wellies and a colander for a hat, had landed in what looked like a cardboard box. The bear had lots of clues around him and luckily, we had lots of curious children to get to…

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reading Speaking and Listening Our stunning start

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Independent Reading and Understanding

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This week the Ducklings have the challenge of reading sentences by themselves and showing they understand what they have read by adding features as needed to the pictures.

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reading phonics

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Applying our phonics skills

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We love showing off our new phonics knowledge by reading words with our newly learnt graphemes in, making words by segmenting with our phonics fingers, writing tricky words and even sentences with complete independence now.

       

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Applying our new phonemes

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The Ducklings are able to apply their knowledge of new phonemes, both digraphs and trigraphs, to blend and read words accurately. This week we have been learning about the long and short sounds that the grapheme 'oo' makes.

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reading phonics

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World Book Day

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The children looked incredible today! They each got the opportunity to guess what one another's 'word' was. 

Can you guess? 

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reading world book day

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World Book Day

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Everyone made a fantastic effort for World Book Day and there were some very creative ideas in Owls. 

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owls reading world book day

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World Book Day

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The children looked incredible today! They each got the opportunity to guess what one another's 'word' was. 

Can you guess? 

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reading world book day Speaking and Listening

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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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reading Physical development PSED

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The Mystery of the Gingerbread Man

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We came to school this week to find a strange event in our classroom...a broken gingerbread man with a letter explaining that he needs our help as everyone keeps trying to catch him. The children had so many questions...How did he get here? Who has been chasing him? How did his leg become broken?…

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reading English communication Our stunning start

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Blend and read captions

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One of our rainbow challenges this week has been to blend and read words and captions with independence. Look at these super readers!

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reading phonics

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The Little Red Hen

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The children know the story of The Little Red hen so well now, that they can act it out with puppets, using the familiar story language.

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reading traditional tales

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