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Our Learning Circuit

Today the Assessment and Development Class were very busy in the learning circuit.

We worked hard on our sounds, number and fine motor skills.

 

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We used shaving foam to write the letter ‘n’
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We all enjoyed writing ‘n’
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Lots of sound work!
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We liked the big squishy letters! What sounds do we know?
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We all worked hard on our own jobs!
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How many sea creatures in each space? Let’s check!

 

Assessment and Development Class

We all had a great long weekend!

Lots of news this morning about softplay, arts and crafts, park trips and not forgetting some ‘lazy days’!

This (short) week we have lots of learning planned.

  • Our sound of the week is…

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  • Our nursery rhyme of the week is ‘Hickory Dickory Dock’

February Holiday

We hope you all have a great February holiday.  The school will close tomorrow (11th February) for the long weekend!

We are looking forward to hearing all the ‘news ‘ when the children return on Wednesday 17th February!

More Pancake Day Celebrations!

This morning the Language Unit morning class helped to make pancakes.

We talked about the ingredients and equipment that we needed. We had to listen carefully to follow the recipe instructions. We made big and little pancakes! They all tasted great!

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Clean hands and ready to start!

 

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Our ingredients!
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We all watched and listened carefully.
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We worked hard to mix all the ingredients together.
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We made sure the pan was nice and hot.
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We put our mixture in the hot pan.
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We waited patiently until we could see the bubbles! Then we knew it was time to turn the pancakes!
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We made some big pancakes too!
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We watched the big pancake being tossed!

We all had a great time…especially eating the pancakes!! We tried butter, jam, syrup and chocolate spread! The Assessment and Development Class joined us at playtime for a special pancake treat!

Pancake Day

The Language Centre made and tasted pancakes!

We recited the pancake rhyme:

Mix a pancake

Stir a pancake

Pop it in a pan

Fry the pancake

Toss the pancake

Catch it if you can!

 

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The Assessment and Development Class tasted pancakes with butter, jam and chocolate spread!

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The Language Unit afternoon Class made some pancakes.

They mixed all the ingredients to make delicious pancakes!

We talked about how to make pancakes and then sequenced the pictures! DSCF0536 DSCF0535 DSCF0534 DSCF0537The Unit class talked about Pancake Day in other countries.

Everyone enjoyed the day and the pancakes smelled and tasted great!!

Chinese New Year

The Assessment and Development Class found out lots of information about the Chinese New Year!

We enjoyed making Chinese pictures, listening to Chinese music and watching and performing a dragon dance!

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We looked a Chinese food. We all tried Chinese noodles and prawn crackers!
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We read lots of stories about Chinese New Year! Look at our display table.
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We enjoyed making Chinese pictures and dragon masks. We learned that red and gold are lucky colours.
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It’s the year of the Monkey! We enjoyed making monkey masks and using them in songs!
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We watched the dragon dance on the SMARTBOARD and made our own dragons. We used our dragons to help us perform a dragon dance. We were twirling and turning high and low to the Chinese music.

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