Green Room (R)

In maths, we have been learning about patterns and made our own patterns during the week. We started by listening to music and copying the patterns within the music. The children loved joining in with 'we will rock you' by Queen. We then made patterns with objects and pens and paper. The children went on to make patterns with multiple different objects and materials and very much enjoyed spotting and pointing out the 'mistakes' I had foolishly made in my own patterns :) 

Today we had year 3 visit us for our reading buddy slot. It was a really lovely experience. At first everyone was a bit nervous; both the year 3 and reception children (and me), but after a few introductions both classes read their books together and talked about the stories in a brilliant manner. I'm not sure who had more fun, year 3, reception or me!

It's been lovely to see the art competition entries. They have all looked brilliant and the art teacher was very impressed.

Meeting this week...

In our oral story telling today we created an amazing story about a knight, his friend the mermaid and her friend the whale, who saved Snow White from a fire as Disneyland. Ask your child if they can recite the story to you using the pictures. They loved re-reading it and creating it as a group. Unfortunately, the knight got soaking wet in the process of saving Snow White.

There is an art competition happening at school at the moment! There was an assembly, which our children didn't attend, about Banksy (picture above) and Barbara Kruger (picture below) and the competition is to create a piece of art inspired by either artist's work or techniques and include a strong message/theme. The ideas suggested in the letter (included below) might be difficult for our children to understand, but this could be a great opportunity to introduce your child to graffiti or graphic design/art and make a fun piece of art together.