Chinese Dragon dance

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Little Chicks celebrated Chinese New Year, Amy showed them how to use the fans and parasols to make a dance.

They met Dave the dragon and learnt a dragon dance.

 

Warm up exercises and learning dance routine.

 

Fans and parasols.

 

Dave the dragon and…

Posted by /blog/author/staylor/page:8 on 30 January 2023

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Chinese new year Dancing

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Letter of the week h

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Little Chicks have been learning the letter h. They have learnt the letter h song, found the letter h in the classroom using signs, wrote the letter h on their white boards, identified pictures beginning with h on the interactive board and objects in the letter h bag.

 


 

Jolly…

Posted by /blog/author/staylor/page:8 on 26 January 2023

Category: Little Chicks

writing Singing Letter of the week

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Banana smoothies

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Little Chicks made banana smoothies.

 

Chopping. 
 

 

Blending the banana and milk together.

 

 

Tasting

 


 

Posted by /blog/author/staylor/page:8 on 26 January 2023

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healthy snack time

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The Story of the Chinese zodiac by Dawn Casey

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Little Chicks listened to the story The story of the Chinese zodiac by Dawn Casey.
 

Miss Taylor “Can you retell some of the story and a character that was in the story.”

River “They made a calendar, a tiger.”

Aurelia “The Monkey, the rat pushed the cat

Hunter “Is a dog, there’s a…

Posted by /blog/author/staylor/page:8 on 25 January 2023

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Chinese new year retelling story

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Little Chicks number 7

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Little Chicks have learning the number 7, they have been layering the number 7 song, writing number 7 on the interactive board, finding number 7 in the classroom, counting out to number 7 and putting numbers in order 0-7.

follow number 7 - number songs for StoryBots 

Posted by /blog/author/staylor/page:8 on 25 January 2023

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writing Singing follow instruction number

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Celebrating Chinese New Year

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Little Chicks have been celebrating Chinese New Year and learning about their customs and celebrations.

 

The Chinese New Year Story and the characters.

 

 

Writing Chinese letter a and numbers.               Role play the dragon.

 

 

Tasting Chinese cuisine,…

Posted by /blog/author/staylor/page:8 on 24 January 2023

Category: Little Chicks

Role-play Chinese new year number describing food

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Winter welly walk

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A lovely morning outdoors on a welly walk, Little Chicks took clip boards to do observational drawings.

They walked on the crisp grass. Climbed the tyre and made handprints in the frost.

 

 

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Posted by /blog/author/staylor/page:8 on 20 January 2023

Category: Little Chicks

outdoor learning

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Letter of the week g

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Little Chicks have been learning the letter g. They have learnt the letter g song, found the letter g in the classroom, used their finger to drew in the air,wrote the letter g on their white boards and identified pictures beginning with g on the interactive board.

 

Look for objects…

Posted by /blog/author/staylor/page:8 on 19 January 2023

writing Singing Letter of the week

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Little Chicks Yoga

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Little Chicks and a visit from the Yoga instructor. 
 

We began with breathing exercises. 
 

Moving body side to side gentle stretching.

 

Legs out stretched and circulating the knee.

 

 

Cat pose.

 

 

Cobra.

 

Tree                    …

Posted by /blog/author/staylor/page:8 on 19 January 2023

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yoga

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Little Chicks make porridge

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As part of our story Goldilocks and the three bears, Little Chicks made porridge for their morning snack.

We followed the recipe and mixed the ingredients.

 

 

We add water.

 

 

We add porridge oats and milk.

 

 

We mixed the ingredients together, put it…

Posted by /blog/author/staylor/page:8 on 18 January 2023

Category: Little Chicks

cooking healthy snack time

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Goldilocks and the Three Bears

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Little Chicks have been learning about traditional stories this week we are listening to Goldilocks and the Three Bears. 
 


 

Using sticklebacks to make the three bears beds.          Goldilocks in the bears house.

 

 

Drawing pictures of the story.

 

Sequencing the…

Posted by /blog/author/staylor/page:8 on 17 January 2023

Category: Little Chicks

construction Role-play story retelling story

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Little Chicks Yoga bugs

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Little Chicks joined Lisa to follow the story of Goldilocks and the three bears. Throughout the story they had to complete yoga positions which represented the characters in the story.

 

Warm up.

 

Meeting the dog, downward dog pose.              Meeting the butterfly,…

Posted by /blog/author/staylor/page:8 on 17 January 2023

Category: Little Chicks

Physical development yoga retelling story

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