Welcome to Ducklings Class
Our first topic is called 'Knowing me, Knowing You'
We talked about our families and shared photographs of people in our families.
Some children chose to draw a picture of their families.
Our new topic is 'Let's Celebrate'
We started our topic with a birthday party for our class bear, Douglas. All the children wrote invitations and invited their bears to come and join the party. We played party games, made party hats, and decorated biscuits.
We have been developing our phonics knowledge and have started using our skills to write words.
We learnt about bonfire night and read the story of Guy Fawkes.
We had great fun making firework pictures by splattering paint.
Talk For Writing
In Talk for Writing we have been learning about instructions. We made fruit salad and learnt to tell instructions using talk for writing actions.
We marked the start of anti-bullying week by wearing odd socks to school.
We read the story Giraffes Can't Dance and talked about how we are all special and unique.
Our new topic for this half term is 'Fairy Tales'
We turned our role play area into a castle!
We had a visit from the Pantomime and enjoyed watching Aladdin.
We had a fantastic time creating fairy tale music using lots of different instruments.
We have been exploring the icy weather and making lots of observations about the ice, and how it is changing.
Our new topic for Spring term is 'Let's Seed How to Grow'
In class we learnt about why Shrove Tuesday is an important time in the Christian Calander, and we have started our Lent Challenge.
We made pancake batter, and chose some delicious toppings to add to our pancakes.
As part of our topic we had some special magic beans appear in our classroom! We put the beans on the wall to observe them and they started to grow! When we came in on Monday morning a giant had visited our classroom and left giant muddy footprints, we also found some objects he had left behind. We found golden eggs, feathers, and his boots!
The children were very excited and quickly got to work trying to discover where the giant had gone, some children created posters to put up, some created traps to try and trap the giant and others wrote him letters to tell him what he had left behind.
World Book Day
As part of World Book Day the children dressed up in their favourite book character costumes. We enjoyed sharing stories and talking about the characters we had dressed up as.
As part of our Lent Challenge we shared stories with children older than us, we enjoyed listening to them read a story to us and then we read a book to them to show them how we are getting really good at decoding and reading words.
In Maths we used cubes to measure the lengths of beanstalks and compared the lengths by ordering them.
We enjoyed exploring colour mixing and had a challenge to make different colours using only 3 prime colours.
We have been practising our phase 3 digraphs in lots of different ways!
Our topic for spring 2 is 'Magnificent Mini-beasts'
We have been learning all about different mini beasts and enjoyed watching caterpillars turn into Butterflies.
Our last topic of the year is 'Barny Bear Goes on Holiday'
We found Barny with a letter in his hand inviting him on holiday. We used the clues in his suitcase to discover where he was going. We then looked on a globe to find Africa and found out facts about Africa. We read the story 'Handa's Surprise' and talked about how it is different to Red Lodge.