Blog by Tag: Understanding the World
Celebrating Diwali
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This week we have been finding out all about the Hindu festival of light called Diwali. We have turned our home corner into a home for celebrating where the children can pretend to have a special family meal and worship at their family shrine called puja. The children have made special lamps out…
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RE Understanding the World Celebrations Diwali Hinduism
Exploring Autumn
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We have been using our different senses to explore some of our Autumn treasures.
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Bubble fun
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The Ducklings and Little Chicks have had great fun exploring making giant bubbles.
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Exploring our sense of touch
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The Ducklings have been exploring their sense of touch. Outside today they hunted for different objects and sorted them according to whether they felt hard, soft, rough or smooth.
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Herb soup
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We are learning about the sense of smell this week. We have harvested some herbs from our garden and have been using scissors to snip the herbs and make our own 'herb soup.' The children have enjoyed using their sense of smell to investigate each of the different herbs.
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fine motor Speaking and Listening senses Understanding the World
Guess the taste?
As we were finding out more about the sense of taste this week, we carried out a fun investigation. We made 3 different drinks, all red in colour, for the children to taste and guess the flavour. One was water, one orange squash and one lemon squash. The children were able to use their sense of…
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Tasting different
Today we talked about foods and their different tastes - sweet, salty, bitter, spicy and sour. We tasted a number of different foods such as lemon, radish, onion, crisps, crackers, jelly sweets and dark chocolate. We had to decide which taste best described the foods.
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Speaking and Listening Understanding the World
A visitor to Ducklings
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On Friday we were very lucky to have a visit from Mr Kenyon who supports a little girl in Little Chicks that is deaf. Mr Kenyon is also deaf and he came to talk to us about being deaf, as we are learning about our senses and in particular hearing. He explained what being deaf means for different…
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Speaking and Listening senses Understanding the World
Healthy Eating
This week in school and at home the Ducklings have continued their learning all about healthy eating. Look at the lovely work some of our Ducklings have been doing at home - making fruit salads, cutting and preparing fruit carefully with tools, weighing different fruits and vegetables and sorting…
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ducklings Understanding the World Healthy eating
Excellent Home learning from Ducklings
Look at Ollie's amazing home learning all about sunflowers! He looks very smart in his school uniform too, as he has been busy making his 'TopTips for Starting School' Video, to help our new Ducklings that will be starting next year.
Amazing work and we love your sunflower writing all about…
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writing reading Understanding the World homework PSED
More Super Home Learning from the Ducklings
Here are lots more examples of lovely home learning from the Yellow Ducklings.
Kaiden has been busy making his own grass head, playing phonics and spelling games, writing, reading and practising counting and writing his numbers.
Darcie has been busy too, following the school work on the home…
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Sun and sunflowers
Here is some lovely home learning from Jack this week! Amazing work, well done! We can't wait to see how your sunflowers grow! We hope that you didn't get too wet when you fell in the stream!!
"We've enjoyed lots of lovely learning this week. We've learnt all about the sunflower, drawing a…
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writing reading ducklings Life cycles Understanding the World homework