Blog by Miss Taylor | Carleton Green Community Primary School

Shrove Tuesday

Little Chicks enjoyed pancakes for Shrove Tuesday.

Little Chicks listened to the story runaway pancake.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fnEj6x0nFDI follow link to listen to the story.

Posted by /blog/author/staylor/page:20 on 2 March 2022

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Pancake day story

African drumming

African drumming workshop was fantastic! The children learned about jembo djembe drums, how they are made and how to use them in different ways, changing tempo and pitch.

Joakim brought in Rainmaker and a Flute.

Little Chicks took turns to be the Maestro chancing the sound from…

Posted by /blog/author/staylor/page:20 on 28 February 2022

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music

African Dancing

Little Chicks have been learning African dance.

Learning to dance to the beat and the rhythm of a sequence of moves.

Little Chicks thoroughly enjoyed dancing.

Posted by /blog/author/staylor/page:20 on 28 February 2022

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music dance movement

Handa's Surprise and Favourite books

Little Chicks have been retellling the story Handa's Surprise in story order.

Alfie could recall all of the story in order.

Listen to the story and then try to retell in order.

follow the link to listen https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XyIV_xYi0as

Little Chicks…

Posted by /blog/author/staylor/page:20 on 25 February 2022

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Handa's Surprise fruit snacks

Throughout the week Little Chicks will try a different fruit for their snack.

Monday we tried mango

Little Chicks find their name cards, use tongs to reach for mango, pour their milk and pack away when finished.

Miss Taylor "What does it taste like?"

Joakim "It was…

Posted by /blog/author/staylor/page:20 on 23 February 2022

Category: Little Chicks

taste test healthy snack time describing food

Little Chicks have been learning about the letter M. They have been looking at objects beginning with M, writing on the whiteboard letter M and words beginning with M. Joined Captainn Seasalt on the treasure isalnd M.

follow link to learn the letter m song …

Posted by /blog/author/staylor/page:20 on 23 February 2022

Category: Little Chicks

writing phonics Speaking and Listening Singing

Africa fascinating facts

Little Chicks have been learning about Africa.

Animals Egyptian Pyramids Victoria Falls

Serengeti National Park African Safari …

Posted by /blog/author/staylor/page:20 on 23 February 2022

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geography Understanding the World

Handa's Surprise

Little Chicks are learning about warm climates as part of this learning we have read Handa's Surprise we have looked at the different fruits and animals in the story. We looked at the setting in Africa and will learn about the country throughout the week.

Throughout the week Little Chicks will…

Posted by /blog/author/staylor/page:20 on 21 February 2022

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reading pshe science Understanding the World story

Emotions and feelings

Little Chicks have been looking at their emotions and feelings each day we have read a different story and then discussed the way we feel with different emotions.

Little Chicks have filled in a emotion table expressing how they feel.

Little Chicks painted a self…

Posted by /blog/author/staylor/page:20 on 10 February 2022

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reading pshe

Favourite Books

Little Chicks have been rhyming words, we have read a few rhyming books and favourite books from home.

Emma brought in Oi Frog

Aubrey brought in Wonkey Donkey

Joakim The Little Penguin

George Jack Frost

Solomon Monkey…

Posted by /blog/author/staylor/page:20 on 10 February 2022

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reading stories Sharing

Letter of the week L

Little Chicks have been learning about the letter L. They have been looking at objects beginning with L, writing on the whiteboard letter L and words beginning with L.

Little Chicks have been learning the L song follow link to learn song …

Posted by /blog/author/staylor/page:20 on 8 February 2022

Category: Little Chicks

writing phonics letters Singing

ICT

Little Chicks operated the Easi-cars, they had to turn on the switch and then negotiate the road using the forward and reverse arrow keys, they were supported to change direction with verbal prompts.