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Pirates in the Hot Seat
In the Ducklings, we love acting out and this week we have been taking part in hot seating as part of our Pirates topic. When the children sit on the hot seat, they become a pirate! The rest of the class can ask them questions about heir life as a pirate and test their knowledge through…
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A Sea Shanty by Year 3/4
We had a treat this week when a child from Year 3 wrote a 'Carleton Green' sea shanty to perform to our budding pirates. The song was performed with backing vocals and dancers! Well done to Jac who had written, practiced and performed the shanty. The children loved it!
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Helping Marissa the Mermaid
Marissa the Mermaid has lost some of her scales and now her tail isn't waterproof. She needs help from the Ducklings to find a waterproof material to cover her tail until her scales grow back. The Ducklings have been investigating which materials would make the best waterproof cover.
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investigation Understanding the World
Reading Longer Words
This week the Ducklings are applying their phonics skills to help them read words with more than one syllable that are longer words.
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Man over board!
The Ducklings have been testing the pirate ships that they built to see if they could float. They also investigated to see how many pirate passengers they could safely fit on board before capsizing!
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outdoor learning water investigation Understanding the World
Creating pirate ships
The Ducklings have been using junk materials to build their own pirate ships. They chose their own materials and decided how best to fix them together. They used a range of tools safely and with care.
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DT Physical development Creative learning
Spelling CCVC words
The Ducklings have been working with their talking partners to spell words beginning with two consonants. They have had to remember digraphs and the letters that make these sounds if they are in a word.
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Ordering numbers
The Ducklings have been ordering random numbers in ascending and descending order.
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Cardboard box Pirates
The children are loving using their imaginations with cardboard boxes and making pirate ships, boats, canons and hammocks.
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Ordering numbers independently
This week in Maths we are ordering numbers in different ways, working independently to challenge our thinking. We have been looking at ordering random numbers, patterns and ordering larger numbers.
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Finding treasure
The Ducklings have been using a simple control program to direct the pirate to find the treasure.
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computing ICT Understanding the World
Reading Pirate sentences
The Ducklings are applying their reading skills to help them read a simple sentence and match it to the correct pirate picture, showing that they understand what they read.
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