This week in Holly Class...

It has been a short but busy week, as always, in Holly Class! 

We have been talking a lot about families this week and reading books that show how families are all different and unique. It has been lovely to see your family trees arriving at school, thank you for working on these with your children. I hope you have enjoyed talking about your families together and maybe even learning something new about other family members! 

We had such a treat on Thursday morning when Lizzie, Artie and Edie's mum, came to see us and talk about her work as a Doctor. She told us all about what a day as a Doctor looks like and showed us how she looked after her patients. Big Elephant was our patient of the day, he wasn't feeling very well but we think we were all able to help.  Lizzie answered lots of our questions and showed us all of the interesting things in her doctors bag. 

In our maths lessons this week the Reception children have continued to work hard on their numbers to 20 through counting, representing them and lots of games. Year 1 have been working on making equal groups and repeated addition through lots of practical work and then learning how to record their workings out. 

In our literacy lessons we have continued to explore the story of NoBot the robot. The Reception children have made many of the characters and attached their puppets to wooden blocks to retell the story and started to write sentences telling different parts. Year 1 have been spotting all the of the different sentence types in the story; questions, exclamations and statements and then working on writing their own. 

Our artwork continues along the toy robot theme this week! We looked at the artist Raymond Logan who paints different robots and talked about which paintings we liked best and how we thought he had created the paintings. I set the children the challenge of working out which paintbrushes would be best for creating the pattern on the background of each of the pictures and which would be best for painting the outline of the robot. We experimented with the paintbrushes outside on big pieces of paper, trying out the wide, thin, pointy and fat brushes! We even made some of our own paintbrushes using twigs and leaves and found they made a lovely pattern with the paint. Through the rest of the week the children have had opportunity to put what they have learnt about the paintbrushes to good use and create their own robot artwork. 

Have a lovely sunny weekend everyone!