Vin's Learning Journey

This January we have so far looked at a few different topics. They have mostly been based around Winter. We found some interesting printouts about why we have different seasons, how the Earth's rotation and the angle it tilts on its axis causes warmer and colder weather at different times of its orbit around the Sun. We filled in some quiz sheets to see what hemisphere we live in and measured the temperature outside where we live. We played a bird memory matching game I printed off from the RSPB website ages ago that we've played a few times before. It's good to try and recognise birds that we may see where we live. We went outside to be "Senses Detectives". Looking, listening, feeling, and smelling any signs of Winter. The most obvious one was feeling how COLD it is! We went and played at the playground too of course. We have been trying to spend a bit of time each week learning about emotions and how our responses to our feelings can have good or bad con...

It has been a long time since we last updated the blog! Here's a look back at what we have been up to... In mid November, Vinnie went on his very first trip to the cinema. We went to see "Abominable" as part of the Into Film Festival.  We used all of the educational resources available on their website before and after seeing the film. We learned about China, watched the film trailer, talked about the characters, looked on the globe, wrote facts about China and drew pictures. We played a board game and answered lots of quiz questions. As soon as we got home from the cinema, Vinnie went and made a poster all about it! He asked me to print some pictures and write the title for him and then he worked hard on his own to make a really cool poster. We visited Hever Castle and Gardens. We enjoyed walking around the gardens, solving the maze and exploring the castle.  Vin had fun in the playground and looking at the model homes. Vinnie took an interest again in learni...