Vin's Learning Journey

 Things definitely seem to have taken a under-the-sea kind of theme lately. There has been a lot of Octonauts watching! (and go jetters too!) We also found a video of Maddie Moate and Greg going scuba diving near Bali , which Vinnie said was "even better than Octonauts!". This inspired us to look up where Bali was, and then look up some photos. There was some amazing scenery and temples.  This then inspired Vin to look up some Chinese temples too. We looked at different photos of China - cities, the great wall of China, pagodas and the Forbidden City. Vin wondered why it was called the Forbidden City so we looked it up! Only emperors and their special guests were allowed to go inside. We went to the shop and chose some fruit to chop up and make fruit leather. Vin cut up some apricots (and ate rather a lot too!) and we added rasberries and a cherry and blended it all together. We put it in the oven for a few hours. It was our first time making it so we accidentally left it for...

 This week we watched some sea creature videos including sea turtles laying their eggs and hatching and heading out to sea, sea creatures that glow in the dark such as sea star and comb jelly. We watched some episodes of octonauts too including the ones about sea turtles, sea stars and the comb jelly episode!  Vin set up a mini golf course for us to play. We started a book about World Religions. We looked up pictures and stats to compare the Christ The Redeemer statue in Brazil with the Grand Buddha statue at Ling Shan.  We read quite a lot of other books together this week. We thinned out our bean plants in the garden and planted some more things including thyme and roses. The beans are growing really well!  Vin cut up the bread and prepared croutons to go with our dinner one evening.  We baked some raisin cookies. Vin did a great job weighing and stirring the ingredients and scooping them onto the tray to bake. While melting the butter, we talked about heat an...