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We have been learning about subtraction this week. We practised our verbal recall of subtraction facts within 5, using a prompt (e.g. number line) if/when required. Once we had worked out the answer, we wrote the number sentence to represent each subtraction fact.

This week we have read the Gingerbread Man story, the children took part in hot seating to discuss the ideas and thoughts of different characters. We then wrote what we thought the characters would say to each other in the story.

The children focused on using clear finger spaces and applying…

This week, we went on a local area visit to Lidl to buy ingredients to make gingerbread men! We planned our route and walked safely along the pavements to the supermarket, discussing the importance of road safety along the way. When we arrived at Lidl, we looked at our shopping list before buying…

This week in Duck class we have been looking at how people celebrate Easter. We took part in lots of different activities such as decorating eggs, learning about the Easter Story, traditional foods such as hot cross buns and chocolate eggs.It has been a very busy week and we wanted to…

This week in Duck class we have been looking closely at the minibeasts we have identified over the last few weeks and started to classify them into groups. We grouped the bugs into 'insects and not-insects'. We looked at how many legs the bugs had or how many wings.We learn that lots of…

This week in Duck class we have been been learning about the life cycle of a frog. The children have loved observing the stages and discussing what happens. We have read stories, watched a video and discussed each stage. To help us with our learning we made life cycle hats! We coloured in the…

This week we have been learning about Minibeasts and their habitats. The children have loved learning about the different minibeasts we can find in our garden and have independently gone to look for these minibeasts in our outdoor area. We have identified what we could see and looked at a…

This week in Duck class we have been learning about the upcoming season Spring. We are slowly moving into a new season and have learnt about the signs of spring that we need to look out for. They have loved discussing the weather, environmental change and the growth of plants and animals. They…

This week in Duck class we have been learning about maps! We have previously looked at maps  and how these could help us to look around our local area. We have now started to make our own maps. Firstly we used a template and drew pictures of the different places we have found in our local…

This week we have been looking at our Local community in the past, there is so much we have looked at! We started with discussing the bottle kilns as this was the children's favourite thing to talk about. They loved looking at old images and videos of how the bottle kilns were used and how…

After learning all about our local community and what is in the community we moved on to learning about the people who help us in the community. The children have loved talking about the different job roles they already knew from their experiences and learning about new ones. We looked at the…

This week we have been learning about our Local community. We have discussed what is in our community and special places to us. The children have loved talking about their homes, local parks and shops that they go with their family. They have been drawing pictures, writing captions and…