Vin's Learning Journey

 There's been a big gap in posts! As Vinnie gets older we seem to do more things that aren't very interesting to photograph or a bit repetitive so I forget to log them. We have continued working on addition to build familiarity and speed. We mostly do this by playing games, printed out ones or proper board games, or more recently playing games on the computer such as on topmarks.co.uk or mathsframe.co.uk We've also been using some geography and history books more often. We learned about plans. Vin still loves playing make-believe and cooking up a storm! We've been out and about seeing loads of fungi and beautiful autumn colours Vin had some lovely books for his birthday including one about Ancient Greece. He enjoyed building a model of a greek nobleman's house. We went for a walk in the woods to find some pumpkin pictures that were put up for halloween. We also found an inquisitive squirrel! We did some star gazing and planet spotting. We talked about feelings and e...

 In no particular order, in the last few weeks we have got up to the following things:  We worked on maths and english activity books. Including a new book called "Sherlock Bones" which has maths puzzles to solve. Vin wrote some nice things that are good about himself. Vin followed some instructions sent by his friend to create his own craft mouse toy. Vin and his Oma excavated some real crystals then read about them Vin made a pasta bake with not too much help We did lots of animal themed activities and sticker books We played football in the rain We went to the library and borrowed a LOT of books We went out and about spotting signs of Autumn We learned about our own history We played lots of maths games on paper and on the computer and just quizzing each other while bouncing balloons or balls to each other. We ate lots of cake We did some Lego Ninjago lessons from the Into Film website. We watched the film, talked about the characters and Vin is making his own comic book f...