World book day 06.03.25

We enjoyed taking part in world book day and dressing up as our favourite characters.

All the children looked amazing, they enjoyed telling us about who they had dressed up as. 
We have played a book quiz to see if we could guess the story from some clues. Year 3 hummingbirds came over the share stories with us. 
At the end of day we chose which story we wanted to listen to. Mrs Whitehouse read the day the crayons quit, Mrs Sheilds read Room on the broom and Mrs Neath read Supertatos 

Emma Jane’s aeroplane 28.02.25

This week we have enjoyed the story of Emma Janes journey in her aeroplane. We have learnt about all the different countries that she travels to. We have learnt all about the famous landmarks that she sees along the way such as Big Ben, Eiffel Tower, the Statue of Liberty, the Great wall of China and the Sydney Oprea House. The children have become great and recognising these and have enjoyed creating our own landmarks to mark Emma Janes journey in Ducklings! Look out for them as Emma jane flys across the classroom. We used blocks and shaving foam to act as the cerment to build Big Ben and the great wall of China.

A walk to the local fire station 06.02.25

We had an exciting visit to the fire station on Thursday. The firefighters spoke to us about what to do if the smoke alarm goes off in our homes, first we wake our parents, grab a phone if there is one near by. We then have to get out and stay out and ring 999 and ask for the fire brigade. We were shown a firefighters uniform and what they wear to protect themselves. They showed us some of the different equipment they use such as hoses, cutters, and ladders. 
The best bit was we were all allowed to squirt the hose, we were even allowed the blue lights and sirens on. 

The children were all amazing, walking all the way down to the fire station, they listened well all held hands and follow instructions brilliantly

Supertato 13.01.25 

This term in ducklings our topic is Superhero’s. This is a topic that focuses on the hero in all of us. A fun topic that focuses on ourselves, our families, superhero animals, superhero vehicles.The super people around us who help us, such as teachers, doctors, police and firefighters.

This week we have looked at the story Supertato, we have read the story a number of time and have learnt about the characters and joined in with repeated phrases. We created it own Supertatos for our display and talked about what super powers they would have, flying, stopping time, helping people, freezing powers and putting my shoes on!

Evil pea escaped from his frozen jail so we made wanted posters so people coming into the class knew what he looked like. We used nets and tweezers to capture him once he escaped. We found him hiding round the class room and to catch him we had to match and find all the numbers1-10

A trip to the post office. 06.12.24

After looking at our book of the week,The Jolly Christmas postman, we decided to send Father Christmas some pictures that we had drawn of him to decorate his workshop. 
We talked about putting all the pictures into an envelope, but how would the post man know where to send it? We looked back at our story and saw that there was writing on the front of the envelopes and this was called the address, and we also saw that there was a stamp on them too which pays for the post to be sent. 
We discussed where we would get the stamp from? the post office and decided to take a walk to the one in the village. 
When we got to the post office we showed the cashier our letter, he weighed it and gave us a stamp he explained where it had to go on the letter and that it then needed to go in to the post box out side. 
We hope our letter arrives safely and that farther Christmas might have time to reply.  

The children were absolutely brilliant walking through the village to the post office, they held their partners hand all the way and followed all the instructions. We talked about how to cross the roads  safely, stopping looking and listening and not running. 
Well done ducklings 

Autumn Leaf man 18.11.24

We have been looking at the book leaf man, following the children being interested in the leaves changing colour in the garden. 
On Friday we went on a autumn walk around the school looking for signs of autumn and all the different leaves.

The leaves were crunchy under our feet and rustled when we kicked them,some where smooth to touch and other lumpy and bumpy.

In the book leaf man get blown away by the wind, we talked about where leaf man might have ended up and decided to create our own leaf man using different size and coloured leaves. 

Binny’s Diwali 08.11.24

This week in Ducklings we have been reading the book Binny's Diwali and learning about the festival of light. We learnt how lamps are lit, called diva which guide good luck into their homes and chase,away the darkness.  We made our own Diya's out of clay we found that the clay was cold and hard until we rolled it between our hands into a ball using our fingers to pinch and squish it into a bowl shape, we used sequins to decorate it.  Miss Denney decorated our hands with Mehndi patterns, these signify good luck and prosperity.
Some of us made rangoli  patterns these consist of bright colours,intricate patterns and motifs.

 Sensory messy play. 25.10.24

We’ve enjoyed lots of sensory activities this week, some being a little spooky ready for Halloween next week. 
We used lots of describing words during our play, the rice was smooth but hard and crunchy, the spaghetti was slippy, slimy and squishy, the gloop and spiders was hard but soft, cold, runny. The peas were our favourite, they started off cold,hard and icey, the when they began to melt they became soft, squishy,squidgy,and flat. The children loved squashing them so we added potato mashers. 
We added herbs to our playdough the children realised that if the rubbed the herbs he smell got stronger.

Funnybones 07.10.24

This week we have been looking at the book Funnybones, we’ve looked at how we can’t see our bones under our skin and we need a special camera to take a picture called an X-ray. It uses a special light to help see our bones. We have learnt the word skeleton and how it holds our body up. We practiced out cutting skills making skeletons using straws and putting dog back together like in the story. Mrs Neath found a big Funnybones floor book and the children have loved looking at it and retelling the story using the pictures.

We have really enjoyed exploring our bodies and learning different names of the bones. We all remembered the name for the bones in our fingers as it sounded sooo funny, phalanges! We watched a funny skeleton dance and joined in. https://youtu.be/e54m6XOpRgU?feature=shared  

Some of us helped Miss Denney finish our funny bones display by making the starry night sky and the houses for the dark dark street, we used boxes to make houses and flats as well as drawing round shapes to make paper houses. We spoke about what our houses were like and what type of houses we see on the way to school, did any of them look like the ones pictured in our story?

Welcome to Foundation!

We have started our topic 'Marvellous Me!' across Early Years, we have been looking at our faces and the different features which we have that make each of us UNIQUE. We then tried to paint or draw our faces in a variety of ways. Our Cygnets (2-3) have tried to build their faces using paper plates to help with the shape. Our Ducklings (3-4) have tried to paint the different features using a variety of different shapes, sizes and colours. Our Foundation (Robins and Kingfishers) used mirrors to look our faces and draw the different features using pencil. We think they look FANTASTIC, Well done Early Years!