15th June - 29th June 2018 Lake District
We have been on holiday to the Lake District! There have been loads of learning opportunities. Vin seems to find things to learn about wherever he is! We started the very day we got there - the house we stayed in had a box of a dozen of the Beatrix Potter books. Over the course of the 2 weeks, we read them all together. We learned a bit about Beatrix Potter and how she loved the Lake District and had an influence on a lot of farming in the area. The house we stayed in had its water source from a spring. This was very different to at home! We talked about how our water comes from a reservoir and is treated in a big water treatment plant and sent to many houses. Whereas from the spring, it only went to a small number of houses and each house treated the water with a special pump and filter. The first day, it was so rainy! Luckily it got hotter and hotter every day after that. As it was rainy, we went to the Ruskin museum, very close to where we stayed. John Ruskin was a famous re...