Lovely life lessons in this one alongside sweet characters and perfectly pitched illustrations… I think that this might go straight onto the metaphorical family favourites shelf! Your class will read the extract taken from The Robot and the Bluebird story and locate the sounds within the words. Lucas is sparse with his words when he needs to be and the contrast in the sharp, metallic and claustrophobic world of the robots to the broad, sweeping vistas of the bluebird’s outside provide a beautiful metaphor for finding a love and purpose within yourself through helping others instead of being bound in the monotonicity of life. Your class will look at the words used in context and recognise synonyms/phrases of similar meaning. Also reminded me of Iron Giant film (friendship between the robot and the boy), the tin man in the Wizard of Oz (the robot that needed a heart).

The Description of the Mountain bluebird is a Gray overall with a blue tail, (Female) and the male has a blue overcoat and a thin, Dark bill. All robots are controlled by software Artificially intelligent robots that can “think” minimally by themselves is still an infant science. He has written and illustrated several picture books, including Halibut Jackson, a Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year. It took a second or third reading of this to truly get to me, but once I fell in love with this title I fell hard.Lucas is one of those guys with pictures too subtlely beautiful to ever garner the attention he deserves. Ik waarschuw wel, het einde daar moest ik toch even bijna huilen want was dat verdrietig maar tegelijkertijd prachtig en mooi. I would read this book with any child between the ages of one and ten and I think they would find the beauty in the text. The pack even goes a step further by offering a selection of resources and activities at the end of the pack to support teachers in the classroom.

It is often that we can help others in moments of weakness too, for our weaknesses are often times the strengths of others. When snow falls, a bluebird lands on his shoulder, and the robot builds her a nest in the space where his heart used to be. About The Robot: FANUC Robotics is one of the biggest manufacturers in the field of robotics and automation systems and has over 160,000 industrial robots installed worldwide so we considered taking one of the FANUC robots to be our case of study. He proclaims that he never really draws images from real life instead he feels he utilizes his imagination for every illustration, forming patterns and shapes as a part of his work.Rejuvenated, the robot carries the bluebird south across industrial wastelands to rejoin her multicolored flock. This is a very useful activity that encourages your class to include full stops in their independent writing as well as recognising where the punctuation should go in a passage from the story. We are very much looking forward to brighter and lighter days so we can get outside more so roll on Spring.

Children to work in pairs to come up with different language features to describe the robot that will engage the reader more.This book also links to the seasons as there is a point in the book where the robot is sat on the scrap heap for a whole year through all the seasons.