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Little Birds Blog – Week 6 Term 1

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Two children are seated at a low table, looking at large flashcards or printouts featuring pictures of different house types, labeled as "detached" and "semi-detached." This suggests a lesson on housing and the built environment.
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Our Families

The Little birds this week have been communicating more about their families, describing their family members and talking about where we live.

Two children are looking at and discussing similar printouts of houses, labeled "detached," "semi-detached," and "bungalow," furthering the lesson on different dwelling types.

They made their own houses from lolly pop sticks and paper and drew their families inside using pencils.

This image captures three finished or in-progress art projects. Children have used brightly colored craft sticks (green, red, orange, blue) to create frames or structures around their own drawings.
A child is carefully placing a yellow craft stick onto their paper, arranging it alongside a blue and a green stick that are already positioned.
A child is focused on pressing down a set of colorful craft sticks onto a piece of paper, securing them with glue.
A child is working at a round table, arranging and gluing various colored sticks (green, orange, red, purple) onto paper to create a design.
A child is concentrating on arranging and sticking various colored craft sticks (red, yellow, green) onto a piece of white paper. A glue stick is visible nearby.
A child is holding up a piece of paper to show their completed construction, which uses sticks to form a shape resembling a simple house or geometric structure with a roof.
A child is carefully positioning an orange craft stick onto their paper while another child holds a glue stick, suggesting a collaborative or shared activity.
A child is using a glue stick to secure a white piece of paper to their craft stick construction, incorporating different materials into their building project.

Various recycled resources were made available to encourage the children to plan, design and make their own models of homes.

Some children even built their homes from Duplo independently.

A child is holding up a creative construction project made from a cardboard box (looks like a Rice Krispies cereal box) that has been decorated with paper and brown clay or paint.
A child is holding a Corn Flakes cereal box that has been transformed into an art piece, decorated with black and green paper cutouts to resemble a roof and a tree.
A child is happily holding a tall, colorful tower built out of large construction blocks (Duplo-style), with some bricks featuring animal eyes and the word "ZOO."
A child is smiling while holding a small, colorful structure they have built using large construction blocks. Other blocks and building materials are visible on the table behind her.

Our story this week was Owl Babies.

This is the cover of the children's book "Owl Babies" by Martin Waddell and Patrick Benson, featuring an illustration of three young owls on a branch.

Little birds also learnt about being Home makers and Doctors when working and playing in the environment.

A child is using a large wooden spoon to "cook" in a small metal pot and is arranging toy fruit on a colorful tiered cake stand in the play kitchen area.
A child is focused on playing in a kitchen area, standing over a wooden play stove and handling a collection of toy fruit/food.
A child, wearing a coat, is engaged in sensory or outdoor play outside. They are sitting at a table covered in a mat and are using a spoon to scoop dirt or mud into a small red pot.
a group of children is absorbed in doctor-themed role-play. They are using various items from the toy doctor's kit, including a stethoscope, to examine a doll and stuffed toys on the table.