Vin's Learning Journey

 We are winding down a bit ready for moving house so a lot of activities have taken a back seat. For 2 weeks after this we will be having "time off" to sort out the new house etc so won't be updating! This week though we have done a few things. With the brighter weather, and the ease in lockdown restrictions, Vinnie has been able to play outside with friends a bit.  He has also carried on with his 3 minutes writing and has done some really great joined up writing practice. We've given each other quizzes asking maths questions, particularly on the 5 times table "fact families". We even asked each other maths questions using the morse code telegraph to beep out the numbers! We visited Scotney Castle and did their Easter trail. Vin has done loads of drawing and making up stories about his pictures. We also made snowflakes and used them as costumes for our drawings as it snowed this week! We watched some Mystery Science mini mysteries and some other fun things o...

 This week Vin got to the pages of the writing book that start to show how to join up letters! He did 3 minutes of writing on each day. He was pleased to start joined up writing. As lockdown restrictions eased in England, we took the opportunity to go to the seaside. We found interesting things on the beach and drew some of them in our nature journals. We looked up what they were when we got home and found out some interesting facts. We watched the tide change and talked about how the gravity of the moon can affects the tides on Earth. We went to the Dungeness Nature Reserve and looked at the birds and saw some petrified whale bones. We looked at the guide map for the nature reserve and used it as inspiration to make our own guide map for our local park. We used google maps to get a picture of the park and then made a key and marked the places we thought were good spots at the park. We used our map to take Vin's grandparents on a tour of the park. While we were there we saw lots of...