To start our topic of Wonderful Gardens we spent the day doing our Flora and Fauna art unit. We looked at a range of artists work that were Flora and Fauna inspired. We then discussed and drew the pieces we liked from their work. Then we focused on insects and did some continuous line drawing, charcoal sketches and added a spot of colour with oil pastel. After that we made collages of an insect in the style of Eric Carle. 

The children enjoyed learning about Chinese New Year and how it is celebrated. They did some great writing, beautiful horse paintings and had a go at making red banners decorated with Chinese symbols for 'luck' and 'peace'.

The children had a fabulous day celebrating Chinese New Year as a whole school. In Giraffes we have read stories and watched videos on how it is celebrated and wrote about it. We painted horses, as it is the year of the horse, with Chinese inspired brush strokes. We also had a go at writing some Chinese symbols to record our names or inspirational words. 

Giraffes have been looking at moving a robot within their computing. They looked at what each of the buttons did and how the robot responded. Then they looked at creating a route for the robot to follow. They planned the starting and finishing point and the route they wanted to take. This was then programmed into the robot and sent off on the journey. If they were unsuccessful we had to then debug the programme, and work out where they had gone wrong and programme it again.