Vin's Learning Journey

The last few weeks have been spent doing some fun festive activities. We have done lots of games, colouring and puzzles from Vinnie's comics that have had Christmas themed fun. Vin has also chosen some activities and thought up his own ideas. Vinnie likes to pretend to be the teacher at his school! This day he was being Mister Fantastic from the fantastic four. His lesson was for us to choose a car, have a race and see which went fastest, then to draw a picture of it and write the name. A kind friend from our park volunteering gave Vinnie some dinosaur themed play dough. Vin had a lot of fun playing with it and making some good dinosaur noises too of course. We found out a bit about what causes Rainbows. We experimented on a sunny day by putting some water in a glass and holding it over some white paper with the sun shining through the glass. It didn't show very clearly in the photo, but we saw a rainbow appear on the paper. Vinnie held a party for his dinos. We b...

We've been practicing some sums recently by playing different games. We have a game called "The Bus Stop Game" where you have to roll the dice and add or subtract as people get on or off the bus. We also use dominos for adding and try to find 2 dominos with dots that add up to the same number. We also play a game called "Shut the box" where you have to turn over numbers that add up to the same number as 2 dice. Kylo Ren is a particular fan of this game! Vinnie and his dad worked together to build a robot from a set that Vin got for his birthday. It turned out pretty well! Vin got out some of his summer activity sheets that I'd made again. He could do them so quickly now! He put the alphabet magnets in the right places on the sheet, and could put the word and number for the counting sheet on so fast! We will print off some winter and christmas themed sheets soon too and he can practice cutting them out and sticking the right answers on or even writin...

Recently we have enjoyed doing some of the activities on the Mystery Science website. Vinnie has been really keen to do them so we've made sure to have a go at one most weeks. One of the activities we did was learning about wrecking balls! We watched some videos of wrecking balls, read a bit about them, then set up our own wrecking ball experiment. We had to knock down the wall, without knocking the houses. This meant learning how far to swing the ball back and noticing the difference between pulling it a long way back or a short way back before letting go. We extended the activity a bit by talking about gravity and momentum as we have done some other force experiments from a library book. As always we have also spent a lot of time at the park! The weather is getting colder but Vin still loves to get outside a lot. We made a nice warming apple crumble to warm us up afterwards! One of Vinnie's birthday presents was a really cool programmable robot. We ...