Blog by Mrs Catterall
Visit to the Garden Centre
We had a lovely morning out at the garden centre. We completed a fun quiz, made some wild flower bee bombs to bring home, scattered some seeds to make a meadow and explored all of the different kinds of plants that you can buy for your garden. The children's behaviour was outstanding! Well done. A…
Posted by /blog/author/mcatterall/page:18 on 15 May 2022
Category: Ducklings
Programming the Beebot
The Ducklings have been learning to programme the Beebot robots in order to give them the correct instructions to direct them around the 'garden.'
Posted by /blog/author/mcatterall/page:18 on 15 May 2022
Category: Ducklings
Climbing
The Ducklings were very excited to have the large apparatus out in PE on which to explore climbing up, along, through and under the climbing frame.
Posted by /blog/author/mcatterall/page:18 on 8 May 2022
Category: Ducklings
Construction fun!
The Ducklinngs have been selecting construction materials of their own choosing to make models of a flower.
Posted by /blog/author/mcatterall/page:18 on 8 May 2022
Category: Ducklings
construction Creative learning
Spatial Awareness
The Ducklings have been making models using their spatial awareness to follow a plan.
Posted by /blog/author/mcatterall/page:18 on 8 May 2022
Category: Ducklings
CCVC word hunt
It was 'Game on!' last week, when the Ducklings were set the challenge of finding all of the CCVC words hidden around the classroom.
Get them to explain to you what a CCVC word is and to give you an example!
stop trap frog
Posted by /blog/author/mcatterall/page:18 on 8 May 2022
Category: Ducklings
The life cycle of a plant
The Ducklings and Little Chicks have explored creating the life cycle of a plant by making play dough models of the different stages of grwoth. They lhave used new vocabulary such as root, shoot, sprout, stem, stalk, bud, leaf, flower and petal.
Posted by /blog/author/mcatterall/page:18 on 8 May 2022
Category: Ducklings
Life cycles Growing plants and seeds
Composing Shapes
The Ducklings have been exploring how to compose (make) a shape, using other shapes. It has allowed them to explore the fact that a shape can be made up of other shapes. They have explored selecting, rotating and manipulating shapes during these activities. Through this spatial reasoning, they…
Posted by /blog/author/mcatterall/page:18 on 8 May 2022
Category: Ducklings
PE and fundamental skills
We continue to enjoy practising and refining our fundamental skills in PE each week. This week we had great fun climbing, balancing, jumping, crawling and rolling.
Look at the gallery...
Posted by /blog/author/mcatterall/page:18 on 24 April 2022
Category: Ducklings
Numbers beyond 10
In maths this week, we have been looking at numbers above ten and how they are made up of a ten and different numbers of units or ones. We have explored representing these numbers in different ways using different resources. Some of us have been able to extend this knowledge to 2 digit numbers…
Posted by /blog/author/mcatterall/page:18 on 24 April 2022
Category: Ducklings
Words ending in two consonants
In phonics this week we have been learning to read and spell words ending in two consonants.
Posted by /blog/author/mcatterall/page:18 on 24 April 2022
Category: Ducklings
Easter Fun!
The Yellow Ducklings looked fabulous in all of their Easter bonnets and ties. A big thank you to the grown-ups at home for helping us to make our outfits.
We also had a great afternoon on our Easter egg hunt. We managed to find them all and complete some challenges and foreits along the way…
Posted by /blog/author/mcatterall/page:18 on 18 April 2022
Category: Ducklings