Blog by Tag: Creative learning
World Music Day
To celebrate World Music Day this week, we listened to some classical music. The Yellow Ducklings voted to listen to The Waltz of the Flowers and The Russian Dance from The Nutcracker By Tchaikovsky. They closed their eyes to help them focus. They loved listening and afterwards they talked about…
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Making 'lemon and limeade!'
The Ducklings were enjoying some messy play fun in the sun, squeezing lemons and limes to make some potions.
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fine motor Creative learning Messy play
Dino play
Thank you to George's mummy for our lovely new small world play table. The children have loved using it with the dinosaurs. Lots of story telling, speaking and listening and working cooperatively together.
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Speaking and Listening Creative learning Small world
Dino play
Thank you to George's mummy for our lovely new small world play table. The children have loved using it with the dinosaurs. Lots of story telling, speaking and listening and working cooperatively together.
Category: Ducklings
Speaking and Listening Creative learning Small world
Big Bear Funk
This half term the Ducklings have been listening to funk music in their music lessons. They have learnt to sing the song, 'Big Bear Funk.' They have also been copying simple rhythms to accompany the song and have learnt to play some musical phrases using the glockenspiels. Watch and listen to our…
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music Creative learning rhythm instruments
Exploring vehicles
The Ducklings have been exploring with vehicles out in the sunshine today. They have been finding out what happens when vehicles travel down a ramp with different surfaces and they have been printing with the different vehicle wheels to see what effects they create.
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Understanding the World Creative learning
Coronation Crowns
Well done Yellow Ducklings! Your coronation crowns were amazing!
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Repeating patterns
Little Chicks have been finding different ways to make a repeating pattern. We have made A,B,A,B, using objects and A, B, C, A, B, C using objects and creating caterpillars using colours to repeat a pattern.
We followed Jack Hartman using physical movements to create a pattern and used the…
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ICT Physical development activemaths Creative learning
Rocket Fun
The Ducklings have enjoyed being outside in the sun today and have been busy using the large equipment to construct rockets (complete with boosters!) to take them on their adventures to the moon.
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construction Creative learning PSED
Using shapes
The Ducklings have been using shapes to create pictures. They were able to select particular shapes for their suitablilty to represent certain aspects of their pictures. They also explored combining shapes together to make different shapes and rotaing shapes within their creations.
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maths Shapes Creative learning
Dinosaurs!
The Ducklings have loved their new dinosaur theme!
They have enjoyed reading dinosaur themed books, painting dinosaurs, drawing and writing about dinosaurs and thinking of describing words, telling stories and role-playing with dinosaurs, exploring number bonds of 10 with dinosaurs and even…
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Understanding the World Creative learning
Creating a wild thing
The children have used their funky fingers to roll and shape the play dough into a wild thing. They have then used a range of materials such as feathers, buttons, Pom-poms, match sticks etc. to create the features on their wild thing!
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Category: Little Chicks