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Taking Away with Gingerbread Men
The Ducklings have been reading the story of The Gingerbread Man. They enjoyed using real gingerbread men to carry out their maths work. They counted back as they took the gingerbread men away to help them subtract.
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A waterproof house
The Ducklings have been trying to find out which is the best waterproof material to make a roof for the three little pigs.
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I'll huff and I'll puff!
We have been investigating and sorting which objects and materials could be blown down by the wolf huffing and puffing.
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Sports Day Practise
On the 6th June it is our very first sports day at Carleton Green.
To prepare ourselves we have been having a go at the sack race with Miss Wilson and the bean bag race with Mrs. Wills. We will continue to do this over the next couple of weeks so the children are aware of what the races are so…
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Goldilocks and the Three Bears
Our story in Ducklings at the moment is Goldilocks and the Three Bears.
We have read many different versions and have loved finding out all the differences and similarities betweeen the tales.
The Northern Ballet have done a series of short ballets for children which they tour around the…
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Our Trip to Old Holly Farm
Last week we had a fabulous day at Old Holly Farm. We saw sheep and lambs, pigs, cows and calves, rabbits, donkeys, chickens and alpacas! We collected eggs from the hen house, saw the lambs being fed, tasted ice-cream, made a craft cow, fed the calves and looked in the parlour, where the cows are…
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Spring Lambs
Dotty and Dave, the lambs, came to visit our school, especially for our spring morning. They were lovely! We stroked and fed them and they enjoyed lying in the spring sunshine. Some of us were very brave to meet an animal that we had never met before!
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Musical Patterns!
The Ducklings have been pattern mad over the last few weeks! We have discovered that you can also make sound patterns!
We have used the percussion instruments to create our own musical repeating patterns! It was great fun!!
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Sequencing events in our day
The children worked with a partner to share ideas and discuss how to order different events in a typical day. They discussed what they would do first in the morning, through to what they would do last thing at night.
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Telling the Time
In Mathematics we have been learning about time. Some of the children were able to play a game on the Clever Touch board. They had to read the label and match it to the correct o'clock time on the clock. Well done!
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Writing Rhyming Strings
The Ducklings have enjoyed listening to lots of rhyming stories last week. We also played lots of rhyming games. Some of the children went on to write words of their own, adding them to a rhyming string.
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1 minute pattern challenge
Last week we were exploring just how long a minute is and what we can do in 1 minute. Some children completed the 1 minute pattern challenge, to see if they could make a repeating pattern in just 1 minute! They used the 1 minute sand timers to help them.
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