Vin's Learning Journey

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...

We have had a bit more time at home in the last couple of weeks. It has been really rainy so we've had a bit of a hibernate! We read an issue of the National Geographic Kids Magazine and Vin chose an animal to draw and write its name. We practiced a bit of dividing and fractions with 12 cars, dividing them in halves, quarters and thirds and adding and subtracting. Vin has continued with some writing practice and maths activities books. We have been doing some yoga and also relaxation breathing from the Cosmic Kids Youtube channel. We have been doing lots of reading aloud - Vin read "Moomin's Pancake picnic" out loud and then we did a LOT of pancake themed maths activities from a website called "mathgeekmama". There were counting activities which also did some pincer strengthening by clipping a peg to the correct number, halving and doubling a recipe (including some fractions which we got the pattern tiles out to figure out how 2/6 is the same as 1...