14 - 20 June (week 24)

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 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 and surface area and how chopping the butter into smaller pieces gives it more surface area for the heat to melt it.


We went out for a walk to local woods for a "dinner picnic" and admired the trees. We also visited Bedgebury and saw loads of lovely flowers. We took pictures of some plants to look up and draw into our nature journal. Thanks to the book about trees we've been reading recently, we noticed that one of the fir trees had two different types of cones on! We also found a biiiig ant hill while exploring.



We played some board games including Kingdomino and the Logo Board game.

We re-read the Ancient Greeks fact booklet and started some of the puzzles. 

Vin drew a draw-along and read some facts in a newspaper his Oma brought round for him :)

We talked about loads of different things this week.

Books from the library this week:



Around the world with the Ingreedies : a taste adventure
Around the world with the Ingreedies : a taste adventure
Bather, Zoe2016
Books
21 Jun 2021Due soonRenewed 3 times

Maya Angelou
Maya Angelou
Kaiser, Lisbeth2016
Books
21 Jun 2021Due soonRenewed 3 times

The best worst day ever
The best worst day ever
Henn, Sophy2021
Books
23 Jun 20213 reserves

Who we are! : all about being the same and being different
Who we are! : all about being the same and being different
Harris, Robie H.2016
Books
23 Jun 2021


Impossible!
Impossible!
Corderoy, Tracey2021
Books
23 Jun 20211 reserve

World religions
World religions
Frith, Alex (Children's author)2017
Books
23 Jun 20211 reserve

Bubble trouble
Bubble trouble
Percival, Tom, 1977-2014
Books
23 Jun 2021


Asterix and the banquet
Asterix and the banquet
Goscinny, 1926-19772004
Books
23 Jun 2021


The exploding life of Scarlett Fife
The exploding life of Scarlett Fife
Evans, Maz2021
Books
23 Jun 2021


The case of the missing moonstone
The case of the missing moonstone
Stratford, Jordan2016
Books
23 Jun 2021


Traction Man is here
Traction Man is here
Grey, Mini2006
Books
23 Jun 2021


Dexter Bexley and the big blue Beastie
Dexter Bexley and the big blue Beastie
Stewart, Joel2008
Books
23 Jun 2021


Barbara throws a wobbler
Barbara throws a wobbler
Shireen, Nadia2021
Books
28 Jun 2021Renewed 1 time1 reserve

Mr Lemoncello's great library race
Mr Lemoncello's great library race
Grabenstein, Chris2018
Books
28 Jun 2021Renewed 1 time

Trees, leaves, flowers & seeds : a visual encyclopedia of the plant kingdom
Trees, leaves, flowers & seeds : a visual encyclopedia of the plant kingdom
2019
Books
28 Jun 2021Renewed 1 time

The mysterious earth
The mysterious earth
Grindley, Sally2010
Books
28 Jun 2021Renewed 1 time

Herman's holiday
Herman's holiday
Percival, Tom, 1977-2015
Books
30 Jun 2021Renewed 1 time

Look after us : a lift-the-flap book
Look after us : a lift-the-flap book
Campbell, Rod, 1945-2021
Books
30 Jun 2021Renewed 1 time

Sea-ing is believing!
Sea-ing is believing!
Butler, Steven, 1983-2019
Books
30 Jun 2021Renewed 1 time

Corpse talk
Corpse talk
Murphy, Adam2014
Books
30 Jun 2021Renewed 1 time

Epic adventures
Epic adventures
March, Julia2019
Books
30 Jun 2021Renewed 1 time

Can bears ski?
Can bears ski?
Antrobus, Raymond2021
Books
09 Jul 2021


Look I'm a maths wizard
Look I'm a maths wizard
2019
Books
09 Jul 2021


Holiday heatwave
Holiday heatwave
Milway, Alex, 1978-2019
Books
09 Jul 2021


The 91-storey treehouse
The 91-storey treehouse
Griffiths, Andy, 1961-2017
Books
09 Jul 20211 reserve

Little leaders. Visionary women around the world
Little leaders. Visionary women around the world
Harrison, Vashti2020
Books
09 Jul 2021


Fiend of the seven sewers
Fiend of the seven sewers
Butler, Steven, 1983-2020
Books
09 Jul 2021


Corpse talk. Season 2
Corpse talk. Season 2
Murphy, Adam2015
Books
09 Jul 2021


Circle
Circle
Barnett, Mac2019
Books
09 Jul 2021


Lionel and the lion's share
Lionel and the lion's share
Peacock, Lou2018
Books


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