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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.
Category: Ducklings
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.
Category: Ducklings
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!
Category: Ducklings
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.
Category: Ducklings
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.
Category: Ducklings
Ordering numbers
The Ducklings have been ordering random numbers in ascending and descending order.
Category: Ducklings
Kestrels Week Ending 14th May
This week we have been learning to tell the time to the nearest minute using the analogue clock, this has been a bit of a challenge for some of us! We have also been learning about the different parts of the digestive system and their functions. In English we have been reading and analysing…
Category: Kestrels
Owls 14.05.21
This week Freya B and Finlay have written the class blog with Matthew from year 6. This week on Monday we learnt to tell the time in Morning Maths with Analogue clocks. In English, we planned and wrote an informal letter to Alice Walker. Then we learnt about spreadsheets in Computing.
We…
Doves are CRACKERS
This week we have had so much fun! We have learnt all about the digestive system chewing crackers and seeing what our saliva does, we have punctuated speech using macaroni pasta pieces and we have enjoyed weaving and tie dying. We acted out different role play scenarios to get us thinking about…
Heron's Habitats
Here are some of our fantastic animal habitats! I cannot believe the effort the children have gone to to create these spectacular habitats :)
Category: Herons
Counting Actions
Little Chicks have been counting actions realising not only objects can be counted but anything. Littler Chicks clapped, stomped, tiptoed, skipped, hopped and came up with unique ways to move and count.
Find different ways to count using large motor movements.
Category: Little Chicks
Parrots' Learn the features of Playscripts
Today the children in Parrots learnt all about playscripts. Firstly we looked at the features of playscripts and then we read through a play all about Jack and the Beanstalk. Different children read different parts, so everybody had a go and they were able to follow and understand the specific…
Category: Parrots