Blog by Mrs Catterall
Coronation
This week the Ducklings have been learning all about the coronation of King Charles III. They have been listening to facts about Charles and his early life, been busy making decorations, bunting and crowns, painting portraits of King Charles and having their own pretend coronation parties in the…
Posted by /blog/author/mcatterall/page:5 on 3 May 2023
Category: Ducklings
Outdoor P.E
The Ducklings have loved doing P.E outside so far this half-term.
So far, they have been practising kicking the ball at a target or to a partner, stopping the ball with the bottom of their foot and taking a ball for a 'walk' (dribbling) keeping it under control.
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Posted by /blog/author/mcatterall/page:5 on 2 May 2023
Category: Ducklings
Our New Arrivals
Today, the Ducklings got to meet three of our newly hatched Ducklings called Honey, Rupert and Margot. They are teaching us lots about life cycles, as well as just simply being gorgeous! They are now out of the incubator and are currently living in their animal…
Posted by /blog/author/mcatterall/page:5 on 20 April 2023
Category: Ducklings
science Life cycles Understanding the World
Exploring amounts beyond 10
The Ducklings have been working together with their talking partners to make amounts above 10 using ten frames and counters. They have discussed how there are many different ways to compose the same number.
Posted by /blog/author/mcatterall/page:5 on 20 April 2023
Category: Ducklings
Minibeasts
The warmer weather is bringing out all of the mini-beasts in our garden and the children are loving observing them. Today, they found slugs, woodlice, snails and centipedes.
Posted by /blog/author/mcatterall/page:5 on 20 April 2023
Category: Ducklings
Understanding the World mini-beasts
Rocket Fun
The Ducklings have enjoyed being outside in the sun today and have been busy using the large equipment to construct rockets (complete with boosters!) to take them on their adventures to the moon.
Posted by /blog/author/mcatterall/page:5 on 19 April 2023
Category: Ducklings
construction Creative learning PSED
Our Ducklings
We are very lucky to have 5 duck eggs to look after and observe them as they grow and change. Today we welcomed one of the ducklings into its new world. It was very exciting.
Posted by /blog/author/mcatterall/page:5 on 19 April 2023
Category: Ducklings
hatch ducklings Life cycles Understanding the World
Independent Reading and Understanding
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.
Posted by /blog/author/mcatterall/page:5 on 17 April 2023
Category: Ducklings
Numbers beyond 10
This week we are looking at how the numbers beyond 10 can be composed. Today, the children have explored making the teen numbers with the numicon and describing the patterns that they could see.
Posted by /blog/author/mcatterall/page:5 on 17 April 2023
Category: Ducklings
Our EGGsperiment!
We wanted to investigate the best material to protect an egg when dropped. The children decided that it needed to be something soft. They chose play dough, pom-poms and cotton wool to test out. They suggested ways to keep the test fair, such as dropping the eggs from the same height and onto the…
Posted by /blog/author/mcatterall/page:5 on 28 March 2023
Category: Ducklings
science Understanding the World
Outdoor Easter Fun
Despite the spring showers we have enjoyed some Easter themed outdoor learning - drawing patterned Easter eggs, having egg and spoon races, counting eggs and matching to the correct numeral.
Posted by /blog/author/mcatterall/page:5 on 28 March 2023
Category: Ducklings
Dino fun
The children have enjoyed using their imaginations to pretend to create a dinosaur swamp.
Posted by /blog/author/mcatterall/page:5 on 23 March 2023
Category: Ducklings