Vin's Learning Journey

The last week has been beautiful and warm which has meant lots of time outside. Also... Vinnie has made some cute lego figures this week. He made a koopa trooper with eyes that could move up and down and when it turned its head, the shell turns too. He also made Donkey Kong and a treehouse for him. We have really enjoyed the book "Maths Adventure". It covers all different aspects of maths - shapes, measuring, time, adding etc. We have done the first couple of pages. It has puzzles and flaps to lift to explain the answers. Vin enjoyed using our blocks to make the shapes shown on the shapes page. On another day he drew lots of the shapes. The volunteering task was a bee survey and a butterfly walk. Vin stayed all day again and did really well even though there was a LOT of walking! At art group, Vinnie was in the mood to draw Lego minifigures! He drew 4 different minifigures. He really wanted to draw the new firework rocket guy figure. He kept trying to draw the shap...

There have been a few fun activities locally in the past couple weeks as it has been the school Easter break. On one morning, I left Vin with my phone camera as he wanted to take a picture of his lego. When I came back for it, he had taken quite a lot of photos! But not of any lego! Here are a few of them: We visited a local pet store that were having some information sessions about their animals. We learned a bit about rabbits, guinea pigs, rats and hamsters. Vinnie stroked a rabbit and a guinea pig. At the end he got a certificate. He also enjoyed looking at the fish tanks and planning what decorations he would want to put in if we had an aquarium! We made a building site out of our oats and glitter mix that we used for moon dust. We chose building site theme vehicles and used the blocks to build things. Among other things, Vinnie designed a very stylish swimming pool and a cool obstacle course for a monster truck. Vin used some of his new blocks to make a picture of a ...