Blog by Tag: Active learning

Trip to the Garden Centre

Little Chicks and Ducklings visited The Plant Place. They engaged in sowing seeds, Craig the gardener showed the Little Chicks the varied plants in the centre and taught their names and how they grew, particularly in different environments and temperatures.

Little Chicks then went around the…

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Road safety Growing plants and seeds Active learning Quiz

Jack and the Beanstalk

Footprints were found in Ducklings, who's could they be?

Alongside the footprints were other objects, beans, coins, leaves, a golden egg and feathers.

Miss Taylor "What did we see?

Joakim "A golden egg."

Hunter "It was massive."

Darcie "Footprints, they were…

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Role-play Active learning story

Letter of the week R

Little Chicks are learning the letter R they find objects beginning with R, write on the white boards words beginning with R, learn the jolly R song and join Captain Seasalt on treasure island.

Finding letter R on the interactive board.

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writing phonics Active learning Singing

making Patterns

This week we are looking at, creating and continuing simple repeating patterns.

Here we have used natural resources such as leaves, sticks, conkers, pebbles and pine cones to create a simple repeating pattern. For example: conker, pebble, conker, pebble, conker.

Can you find any objects at…

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maths Active learning

Outdoors playground

Little Chicks have been going from strength to strength with their gross motor coordination they have shown agiltiy and skill using the apparatus. The consistent repetition using the equipment is supporting their learning.

Post pictures of Little Chicks at the park developing…

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Physical development Active learning

Rhyming words

Little Chicks have been learning to rhyme words. They used the rhyming match phonics game Cat/Hat each took turns to match two rhyming words.

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Rhyme phonics Active learning language story

Letter of the week H

Little Chicks have been learning the letter J this week, they found objects beginning with J, wrote J in the air using their finger, searched treasure island for J words and used the chalk boards to write letter J or words beginning with J.

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writing phonics letters Active learning Singing

Number 8

Little Chick have been learning the number 8 this week.

Little Chicks count out eight using their fingers and stamping out eight taps on their feet.

Little Chicks use the interactive board to count out eight objects and find eight on the number line.

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Counting Active learning number

Letter of the week D

Little Chicks learning the letter D.

Little Chicks brainstorm what begins with d, they found objects beginning with d and found letter d on the interactive board.

Little Chicks use the chalkboards and chalk to write the letter d.

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writing Active learning Singing language

Number 5

Little Chicks have been learning number 5.

Finding five flowers Finding the pen with five Llamas

Little Chicks worked out to share five leaves how many does a Little Chick have when shared, one each.

Little…

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maths writing Rhyme Active learning

Rhythm and Rhyme

Little Chicks play the Silly soup rhyming game. They have to sound the rhyming words and then place them in the Silly soup bowl.

They sang the song and then added the rhyming picture words to the bowl. This weeks so far we have rhyming groups have been as follows:

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phonics Active learning Singing language

Autumn

Little Chicks and Ducklings ventured out for another wellie walk, this time finding insects, looking through binoculars and finding vegetation. What season we are in and what changes.