Vin's Learning Journey

Recently we have tried to get out when it's not been too wet but otherwise we've had some fun activities at home. We visited the woods to play with some friends Vin has been enjoying the Anna Hibiscus series about a little girl that lives in a country in Africa. We've been reading those as well as other books about Africa. We went to a Bridge Engineering workshop organised by the Rochester Bridge Trust. It was held at Tonbridge Castle so it was fun to see inside the castle too. We really enjoyed being told about the history of the bridges at Rochester by the "Spirit of the Bridge", looking around the exhibition, and trying out some bridge engineering for ourselves. Afterwards Vin played in Tonbridge park with his friends for ages despite the cold! Vin sent an email to the publisher of a book he liked after finding a secret message in the book, and he received some treasure in the post from the characters! Vin helped to make a Guy to burn on bonfire ...

This month we have been focussing a bit more on doing more regular writing practice to help strengthen Vin's hand and to improve neatness and size consistency. We've been playing with playdough before writing a page in his practice book to work the muscles. We've also been spending a bit of time doing a maths workbook and doing lots of different games to practice number bonds to 10 and 20 as well as place value. As well as these more formal things we have... Baked cupcakes! Made numberland! Went to Emmetts Garden and spotted dragonflies and then Vin played with his friends for a few hours. Vin has been enjoying reading the Tintin comics which has inspired lots of drawing of the characters, making pretend newspapers about them and wanted posters. He even drew a picture and made it into a jigsaw for me to do. Our nearby town had a puppetry festival one weekend. We went to a glowy evening performance in the rain by Cal y Canto, as well as several performance...