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Ducklings
Welcome to Ducklings Class
Curriculum Newsletters 2024-2025
This week we have been reading Elmer and we did some fabulous sensory activities linked to this
As part of ourselves topic we explored our favourite animals
Lots of learning this week in Ducklings- prepositional language, pattern matching, 2D exploration and games with our friends
Picnic at the park!
Mr Potato Head fun!
Rainbow Fish
Dressing up
Exploring heavy and light
Sports Day fun!
As part of Summer week we did a 'Circus' day and we all had great fun! We did a gross motor skill circuit with balancing, trampete, stilts, juggling and rainbow ribbons. We read the story 'Spot Goes to the Circus' and had lots of great activities like splat the clown, making a clown hat and had popcorn.
Summer week! Ducklings have explored all things Summer this week- dressing appropriately, sensory trays and lots of great activities
Ducklings have started venturing to the parks. Some children have had a walk to Marsden Park and others have been out on the vehicle to Townley Park. The children all had a fantastic time and enjoyed all the equipment. We look forward to having more trips to the parks over the next half term.
National Numeracy Day. This year the focus was on money. We started our day with making a list of ingredients we needed to make currant buns. We then had a full class walk to Asda to buy the items and then we had snack in the cafe. All of Ducklings where amazing! On our return we made our buns and sang the number rhyme '5 currant buns'. This afternoon we looked at coins and made a coin rubbing picture and then we did shop and cafe role play using signs from familiar shops both inside and outside. What an amazing day!
Water! We have done water play, defrosted the ice to free the cars, used spray bottles and the footspa.
All things in the sky! We made our own hot air balloons, had planes in shaving foam and threw the soft javellins
Ducklings went on the all weather pitch to practice athletics. We did running, balancing a bean bag on our heads, throwing balls and beanbags into a target and used the soft javelin.
Earth Day- For Earth Day we did lots of fun activities. In Multi-Sensory room we explored the Earth, we made our own Earth's with salad spinners, had an 'ocean' tray with musical instruments, an 'animals around the world' sensory tray, explored green and blue balls, had a shaving foam and pipette activity and did some gardening
We have started our new topic 'Transport'. We have started by exploring all different types of transport through sensory trays both inside and outside.
St George's Day. We did lots of amazing activities- made cupcakes, collaged a flag, decorated a shield, castle small world play and sensory trays.
THE BUNNY HOP! Ducklings did an amazing job completing our charity event for Pendleside Hospice. They all walked, jumped and hopped their way around the Woodlands area lots of time. Well done Ducklings!
We went for a walk to Pets at Home to look at the animals before having snack in Asda. On our way down we looked for signs of Spring such as the sun shining, daffodils and listening to the birds.
Spring! We looked at pastel colours linked to spring with mark making, did some fantastic 'dabber' colouring, had a spring flower sensory tray and used the switches to activate different animal toys to move.
Being builders like 'The Three Little Pigs'
Having the best time playing with friends in soft play
Making music outside!
Our new story is 'The 3 Little Pigs'. We have explored this with a variety of sensory trays and reading the story. We have also done some amazing number work linked to this.
St Patricks Day- we explored the colours of the flag with a sensory tray, playdough and the A-fram. We also made a shamrock using apples to print and did a fabulous rainbow with a pot of gold at the end.
What a fabulous morning for Share our Learning! We sat for our registration and then did 5 teddy bears number rhyme. Following this we did lots of amazing activities linked to the rhyme and Goldilocks and the 3 bears.
Investigating BIG and small
For Science Day we focused on colour. We changed the colour of ice using pipettes, dud a 'fizzing' colourful experiment, used spray bottles and changed colours on a giant spinning toy!
World Book Day- For World Book Day we did lots of great activities on a book called 'The day the crayons go back to school'. We had sensory activities linked to this and read lots of fabulous books throughout the day.
St David's Day. We did lots of fun activities- we made handprint daffodils, had an edible mud and felt daffodil tray, painted with leeks, found leeks in water, mate a dragon and explored all things green and red like the flag.
We have started our topic 'Once Upon a Time' and we have done some amazing activities linked with castles and fairies. We made our own wands, made sandcastles built a castle in the sky with shaving foam and building bricks, mark made in glitter with a wand and made a castle out of a handprint.
French Day- we tried some French foods such as bread, cheese and croissants. We also painted a French flag, had sensory trays of the colours of the flag and built the Eiffel Tower with building blocks
Our walks to Asda. We have been twice this week- we have bought items to make a picnic and visited the cafe for snack. They have all been superstars walking there and in the shop.
As part of our food topic we have also looked at the importance of brushing our teeth. We investigated what foods are healthy and explored sensory activities linked to this.
Making our picnic and choosing what we want to eat and drink.
Ducklings had so much fun with all our sensory food trays. The engagement was wonderful!
Look at these superstars sequencing 'The Very Hungry Caterpillar' story
Pizza Maths!
Food based sensory play
Making popcorn
Chinese New Year- We did lots of fabulous activities, first we explored different items from China, had sensory trays, made a snake using bubble wrap to create a scale effect, designed a lantern and tried different foods.
We used the latch box and a switch to make a mango smoothie- it was delicious!
We are starting to use the school vehicles to go for drives and access the community. These four where superstars on their first trip. They enjoyed looking out of the window and taking in the scenery whilst listening to the radio.
Mr Potato Head! We designed our own Mr Potato Heads and then used vegetables to make our own.
A walk to Asda to buy items for the Mr Potato Heads and fruit kebabs
Making our Christingles
Christmas art activities!
Christmas Maths- we have looked at ordering numbers, representing numbers with objects, building towers, object permanence and size
Nativity!
Dressing up and decorating the Christmas Trees
St Andrew's Day- we did lots of wonderful activities for St Andrew's Day celebrations. We had a sensory flag tray, dressed up as knights, designed our own loch ness monster, collaged a flag, had a sensory porridge tray and made our own porridge to eat for snack.
Printing with our favourite toys
Look at this superstar eating 2 fish fingers for the first time!
Ducklings' have done some amazing work on shape. We have sorted 2D shapes, identified sides and corners, printed with shapes and collaged different shapes.
Children in Need
Our first trip to Asda, the cafe, Pets at home and B and M bargains. We walked down to Asda then had some snack in the cafe. Following this, as our topic is 'Toys' we looked at this section in Asda and B and M bargains. After this we went to look at the animals in Pets at Home. We had a fabulous time and the children did amazing.
Dressing up!
Ducklings have done some amazing Autumn activities- a variety of sensory trays, matching activities, alphabet work, sensory mark making, woodland walks, number hunting and a variety of art activities.
The Wheels on the Bus! We did so many amazing activities for this nursery rhyme and the engagement was amazing. We had a tray of all things round, items that open and shut and a horn. We also did role play with the babies, washed the buses and used a story sequencer sound board to order the song. Then we did some amazing art work using wipers and cars. The children made their own buses with megablocks.
1,2,3,4,5 once I caught a fish alive.... Ducklings' really liked this sensory tray linked to the number rhyme. We also made our own fish and completed a matching activity.
Our first Ducklings birthday. This little man turned 5 and we had a party and sang Happy Birthday to him to.
In Music we focused on the nursery rhymes The Grand Old Duke of York and Row Row Row Your Boat. We used sound buttons, drums with pom poms on, instruments for the animals and cereal. They all had excellent engagement.
Humpty Dumpty.... We built a wall with bricks and weetabix. We also made a large scale wall using sponges and brown paint.
Twinkle Twinkle Little Star.... We had a fabulous time exploring the nursery rhyme. We had a sensory tray with bells, made stars with playdough and did a glitter star picture.
In PE this week we concentrated on balance. They worked really hard to complete the circuit.
5 bears Math's work. Ducklings have worked super hard.... from finding hidden bears in cereal, to building a wall for them to sit on and matching numerals and quantities. Super work!
Look at this super work putting the alphabet in the correct order
Collecting leaves for a printing activity
These two little men had the most amazing time in the ball pool in soft play! Lots of giggles
Focusing on the snowstorm. Ducklings particularly liked saving the bears from the ice using a switch to activate the hairdryer.
Jeans for Genes day. Ducklings did lots of amazing activities for this. We designed our own jeans, had a large scale jean design, used spray bottles to wipe the jeans away, had blue playdough and a blue sensory tray.
Ducklings went on a Bear Hunt in the Woodlands and we did a sensory walk in class.
Some fabulous sharing of resources in Music
Ducklings visit the Adventure Playground! This was their first visit and they had a fabulous time exploring the big climbing frame, swing and trampoline.
We're Going on a Bear Hunt! Ducklings' are really enjoying investigating the elements of the story with lots of fantastic sensory experiences. We have had a sensory tray, made our own bears using salad spinners and re-created the story for a display board
Some of our Maths work so far. We have looked at shapes using bricks, blocks and shape sorters. There was also some amazing work using sticks to make a square! In number our focus has been '5 Little Ducks'
We're Going on a Bear Hunt...We sat as a class and read our sensory story, they all did amazing! We then had a sensory circuit to explore the elements of the story and also used the salad spinners to make our own bear.
Visiting multi-sensory
Our first PE lesson. All of Ducklings did amazing getting changed and when in the hall we practiced moving to music.
We have had a great time in Ducklings for our first week, here are some photos exploring.
Here they are exploring 5 little ducks sensory activities
