Vin's Learning Journey

At the start of this month we had some lovely trips out, but this past week the coronavirus has meant we have had to stay at home. This may go on for a while. Luckily there are so many amazing companies and individuals putting on activities online for the children that have had to stay home from school as well as the usual home educators like us. These are very unusual times but we will be making the most of time indoors to learn new skills and enjoy our garden too. We can't go out to playgrounds or meet up with friends so we will have to find other ways to keep busy and active. In the first week of March we went to Crowborough ghyll and traipsed through so much deep mud! We got to a playground at the end and Vin had fun with his friends. The star wars lego guys had some trouble parkig their spaceships! Only ships that were 2 different colours and 10 blocks long were allowed in the imperial spaceship park! Luckily Vin figured out the numbers to match up to 10 so they could all...

It has just been so wet we have done more indoors things than usual. It was also half term so libraries and museums had some nice indoor activities thankfully! We have continued reading the Anna Hibiscus series of books set in Africa. It has helped us talk a lot about being kind to people and the differences in places people live and their way of life. We played with the story blocks making up some funny stories. In Valentine's week we printed off a activity from the Big Life Journal website. There were 5 activities to do (1 each day) all about loving yourself and recognising all the good things about yourself. We practiced some more about place value, addition and subtraction from Vin's maths activity books. We played Sums bingo, each sum was double a number plus or minus 1 or 2. We worked out what the double was too. We practiced adding to 100 with 2 numbers using the blocks. We did a few games about telling the time. One sheet we had to pick a card and then draw...