Learning to read

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The Ducklings are enjoying learning to read during our guided reading sessions each week. They hold their books with care, turn the pages one at a time and tell a story from what they can see in the pictures. They have been predicting what might happen next and answer how and why questions.

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Sound Sorting

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The Ducklings have been sorting objects according to the first sound that they begin with - s, a, t, p, i or n.

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Our reading family

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The Ducklings have started out on the journey of learning to read by meeting the family from the Oxford Reading  Tree stories. They have been learning the names of the different characters.

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Alliteration and odd one out

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The Ducklings have been listening to the initial sounds that objects and words begin with. They had to spot the odd one out.

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Alliteration

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The Ducklings have been sorting objects according to the first sounds that they begin with.

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Parrots learnt: How To Catch A Star Story using actions

The children in Parrots have learnt the story sequence to: How to Catch a Star using actions to help them remember each key event. Well done everyone.

 

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Rhyming

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The Ducklings have been singing lots of nursery rhymes, listening to rhyming words in different stories and playing lots of rhyming games.

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The Enormous Crocodile

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Some of the Ducklings have been ordering the main events from The Enormous Crocodile story.

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The Enormous Crocodile

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As part of our Roald Dahl day, the children loved retelling the story using the small world animals.

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Telling a story

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This week we have talked about the skill of being able to 'read' by using the pictures to tell a story. Our Ducklings have enjoyed doing this,  especially with a familiar story.

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Excellent Home learning from Ducklings

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Look at Ollie's amazing home learning all about sunflowers! He looks very smart in his school uniform too, as he has been busy making his 'TopTips for Starting School'  Video, to help our new Ducklings that will be starting next year.

Amazing work and we love your sunflower writing all about…

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More Super Home Learning from the Ducklings

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Here are lots more examples of lovely home learning from the Yellow Ducklings.

Kaiden has been busy making his own grass head, playing phonics and spelling games, writing, reading and practising counting and writing his numbers.

Darcie has been busy too, following the school work on the home…

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