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. 

For our art this term we have been looking at the artist Emma Burleigh and her use of watercolour. We explored what the watercolour can do on the page using different techniques such as the wet and wet techniques and this effects the paint. We then looked for the image in the paint and began to create the picture within the marks we had made and explored. We then repeated this activity taking inspiration from our topic of Frozen Kingdom and using the colours we had been looking at within this and creating image that would represent all we had looked at within the topic. 

We had a lovely start to our Frozen Kingdom topic. We played in ice and with a range of Artic and Antarctic animals. We explored the Northern Lights and created our own pictures of them using brusho and a black sugar paper silhouette. We also made peppermint cream polar bears with chocolate buttons and chips for their details.  

​The children have been looking at place value up to 20. They have been looking at different ways numbers can be represented. They have represented numbers on Numicon, bead strings, Rekenrek and number lines.

The children enjoyed an engage day for the new topic Frozen Kingdom. They looked at images of The Northern Lights and created beautiful watercolour paintings, made peppermint cream polar bears and played with ice!

​After seeing animal enclosures at Exmoor Zoo and designing some of their own, the children used different materials to make a safe space for their chosen animal to live. The children thought hard about what the animal would need. Some children included swings, ropes, hideouts and places to eat and drink. The children thought carefully about the materials they used and the different ways of attaching them.

​After seeing animal enclosures at Exmoor Zoo and designing some of their own, the children used different materials to make a safe space for their chosen animal to live. The children thought hard about what the animal would need. Some children included swings, ropes, hideouts and places to eat and drink. The children thought carefully about the materials they used and the different ways of attaching them.

​It was a beautiful day seeing all the animals at Exmoor Zoo this week. The children also got lots of inspiration and top tips ready for making their animal enclosures in Design Technology.