Blog by Tag: Understanding the World
Chinese New Year song
The Ducklings have learnt a new song all about Chinese New Year. They have played along to it with musical instruments and ribbons and danced.
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Celebrating Chinese New Year
We have been celebrating Chinese New Year in our home corner.
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Speaking and Listening Understanding the World Creative learning Role-play
Chinese writing
The Ducklings have enjoyed writing with paintbrushes. They have copied the Chinese word for rat, as it is the year of the rat.
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Understanding the World Creative learning Chinese new year
Bird watching
The Ducklings have enjoyed bird spotting around the school grounds. They spotted robins, pigeons, seagulls, blackbirds, magpies and sparrows.
Keep up the spotting when out and about and at home.
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An Arctic Visitor
We were very lucky to have a visit from a parent, who used to live on an island off Norway. He came to talk to us all about what it is like to live in the Arctic. The children listened beautifully and were extremely interested in looking at all of the artefacts that he brought along.
We are…
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Exploring Ice
The Ducklings have been using their senses to explore ice.
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Our hairdressers!
We decided to turn our home corner into a hair salon this week as the children showed an interest in this special job.
They have had lots of 'customers' coming to visit the salon and have really enjoyed all of the pretending. It has certainly encouraged lots and lots of speaking and listening,…
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Our school caretaker
Mr Luty, our caretaker, really enjoyed talking to the children about his special job taking care of our lovely school. The children didn't realise how many different jobs Mr Luty has to do each day. They were amazed at all of the different keys he has to take care of and remember which doors and…
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Speaking and Listening Understanding the World
Our school cook
Our school cook has been to talk to the classes about her very important job in our school kitchen. The children love their school dinners and were very interested to find out all about the hard work that goes in to making them.
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Speaking and Listening Understanding the World
Ice exploration
It was lovely to have a cold, crisp day to explore the ice in our garden.
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Train Driver Visit
A big thank you to Beatrice's daddy who came to talk to us about how he helps people in his job as a train driver.
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Waste collectors and reycling
The children have explored how waste collectors help us. They have sorted the waste into plastic, paper and card and metal.
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