Vin's Learning Journey

We've had another fun week here at the Bowser and DK Academy! We had our lovely outing to Herstmonceux on Monday. On Tuesday we read ABC Zoo by Rod Campbell and did some activities. We filled in some missing letters on a big sheet of paper with the alphabet. Then we matched up the animals we had with ones in the book. We didn't have every animal in the story, so we found some other items for the other letters! Then we experimented with the Nintendo Labo house for a while. We learned how the joycon senses the different items you can put in the house and how it knows what you've chosen. We had a lot of fun playing with the little creature that lives in the house! On Wednesday we read "On Beyond Zebra" by Dr Seuss. It inspired us to create our own unusual letters and think of some creatures that could start with that letter. Then Vinnie decorated his Labo RC Car and made it UNIQUE! On Thursday we did a survey of the wetlands at the park. We found a lot...

Our Ancient Egyptian theme is starting to slow down a little bit and seems to be changing into more things about feelings, mindfulness and understanding how our brains work. As we are now in Autumn we will probably start doing more autumn-y things too and halloween fun! In the last couple of weeks we have: Visited Hobbledown Farm. We learned about otters and meerkats, explored the farm, looked at grid referenced on the map to solve a quiz, listened to a story there and fed the goats willow branches. We discovered fairies and treasure and Vinnie played with his friends. We made mummified sausages (wrapped in pastry!) We made a giant "worksheet" with some letter, number and shape challenges on We made lemon curd puffs We visited One Tree Hill and found signs of autumn. We collected beech nuts, acorns and fallen leaves. We visited the park and learned about Hedgehogs. We made origami hedgehog bookmarks and Vinnie made a clay "hedgehog rolling pin". C...