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bLENDED LEARNING FOR NURSERY AND RECEPTION IN SCHOOL

five little ducks

(based on a week's work)

Skills

Skills to be taught in School - ( Five Little Ducks)

Language, Literacy and Communication - Phonological awareness

Listen to and join in with songs and rhymes.
They ‘talk’ to themselves, other children and familiar adults using simple sentences.
They follow simple instructions.

Physical Development

Co-ordinated movement.
Fine manipulation – manipulate and explore simple and tactile materials.

Mathematical Development

Reciting and sequencing number – reciting numbers forwards and backwards from 5, extend to 10 if children are able.
Using one to one correspondence to count up to 5/10 objects.
Children are able to say one more and one less.

Personal and Social Development

Building positive relationships.
Begin to identify emotions of others.
Show awareness of their own feelings and emotions and those of others.

focus tasks

Possible Focus Tasks

Learning the rhyme both indoors and outdoors with hand/fingers (indoors)and body (outdoors) movements (record to share with parents)

Counting up to 5 or 10 ducks forwards and backwards using ducks/items in the small world or (individual)water tray.

Hook a duck or object out of the water tray. Count the number of ducks caught using 1 to 1 correspondence.

Children can think and imitate what movements ducks do e.g. flying, swimming, eating, quacking, walking, standing still. At a marked spot practitioner to shout out how many of each movement to do at each spot. Move to a new spot and make a new movement. Children can take over the role of the practitioner as the one in charge. Think about how an angry, happy, excited, scared, sad, lonely etc.. duck would look and move. Repeat above activity using emotionally vocabulary. Ask children how they feel and give them the vocabulary if they do not have it. In everyday activities adults to ask children to use emotional language and describe their emotions.

Describe the duck and other animals – what can you see? Ask questions – encourage responses and support children in modelling language and simple sentences.

enhanced provision

Possible provision areas indoors

Small world tray to practise the rhyme – resources to practise, with video on continuous play.

Make shadow ducks using an overhead projector or torch with hands encouraging a pincer grip. Using different fingers to create a beak.

Using tweezers to pick up small objects and place in an eggbox (or similar tray) to match the correct number 0 – 5/10.

Possible activities to follow

Use chatterpix of the duck or puppet made at home - use photos from home.
Performing the changed rhyme that they have completed at home in front of their friends or teacher.

Possible provision areas outdoors

Follow my leader. The leader creates a movement for all the little ducks to copy. Every child has a turn at being the leader. Then develop to create a sequence of movements. The 1st child sets the first movement repeating it five times, the second child adds the second movement to follow and then the third child the third movement and so on. Encourage the children to remember the sequence. Video to practise at home.

Large scale water. Using large water tubes eg plastic guttering and objects at different heights for stands. Pupils to work alone or together (current guidelines applying) to create the water flowing down the hill and taking the ducks down to the lake (large tub, builders tray) at the bottom. Taking turns and thinking what to do will have to be modelled or supported by adults if pupils are not able to work collaboratively. Allow time for pupils to revisit this activity on their own and practise working together if allowed.

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