Blog by Tag: Speaking and Listening
Matching and sorting
In Mathematics this week we are matching and sorting using lots of different objects. There are many different ways we can sort...size, colour, pattern, shape...but giving reasons for our choices is just as important.
'Sorting for the colour is too easy so I've moved things into small, next…
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Hot Seating
The Ducklings took it in turns to pretend to be Mrs Rainbow from a recent story that we had been reading. The children had to get into character and answer the questions as if they were Mrs Rainbow.
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Day and Night
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As part of our What can we see? topic, we have been learning about day and night. The children have made pictures, used models and even made videos to explain how we get our day and our night.
We read a lovely story by Oliver Jeffers called How to Catch a Star. It was all about a little boy who…
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Speaking and Listening Understanding the World Creative learning
Retelling the No-Bot story
Today we have read No-Bot The Robot With No Bottom! Afterwards the children have done lots of different activities, such as writing lost posters, making story maps, making junk model robots and writing their own stories. Joshua has retold the story and used his small world characters to act it…
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reading stories Speaking and Listening
The Little Red Hen
The Ducklings have loved reading the traditional tale of The Little Red Hen and now know it so well that they love acting it out and retelling it using the repetitive story language.
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reading traditional tales Speaking and Listening
Hot Seating
Some of the Ducklings sat in the 'hot seat' and pretended to be the Little Red Hen. The rest of the class asked them some interesting questions!
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traditional tales Speaking and Listening
Guided Reading
In guided reading we have enjoyed reading and retelling the story of the Little Red Hen.
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reading traditional tales Speaking and Listening
Sharing stories
The Ducklings throughly enjoyed reading The Little Red Hen story. They also brought in their own versions from home and enjoyed telling each other the different stories as well as talking about the similarities and differences between them.
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reading traditional tales Speaking and Listening
Herb soup
We are learning about the sense of smell this week. We have harvested some herbs from our garden and have been using scissors to snip the herbs and make our own 'herb soup.' The children have enjoyed using their sense of smell to investigate each of the different herbs.
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fine motor Speaking and Listening senses Understanding the World
Silly soup!
Only objects beginning with our special sound can go in our soup. Today's sound was the letter 't. The boys put a toothbrush, a turtle, a teddy and a tiger in the soup.
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phonics Speaking and Listening letters
Rhyming - Odd one out
We have been playing spot the 'Odd One Out! The children have to say each of the words and listen out for the word that doesn't rhyme.
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Rhyme phonics Speaking and Listening
Tasting different
Today we talked about foods and their different tastes - sweet, salty, bitter, spicy and sour. We tasted a number of different foods such as lemon, radish, onion, crisps, crackers, jelly sweets and dark chocolate. We had to decide which taste best described the foods.
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