Vin's Learning Journey

 This week we have continued to practice joined up writing and to update our calendar each day. There was an interesting change this week at last as the season changed to Astronomical Autumn! We read about the harvest moon and the autumnal equinox. We read a couple of poems and closed our eyes to imagine the scene as we listened to them. We talked about what things remind us of Autumn.  We started a new mystery science unit about energy and electricity. We watched the music video of the song This Too Shall Pass by OK Go - it's a giant Rube Goldberg machine. We observed the different things moving and the chain reactions. We filled in our "Conceptual model" sheets and the "See Think Wonder" chart. We also watched some other Chain reaction videos that Vinnie likes (The Sprice machines ones on youtube).   Vin did more food prep again this week, helping to prepare snacks and lunch independently. We did some activities from Twinkl about having a positive learning att...

This week we have continued practicing joined up writing using sheets from the letterjoin website. We have practiced all the letters now so will try them a bit smaller next and then more words. We've been updating our calendar each day too. Vin has done lots of good helping with snack and lunch preparations. He's been sharing fruit and snacks out fairly, picking and washing grapes, and chopping up apples. We did some puzzles from the Wild West magazine from Mysteries in Time and also gave the magic card trick a go. We used the cards to make up a board game too. We laid out a board with the cards and had to move our counters to each card and roll a 12 sided die then multiply the die by the card. Vin extended the board with some more cards too after I took the picture! Vin has been playing out in the garden every day this week, riding around on his trike. He got some rope out and had fun tying his trike and gokart together and towing one with the other. We thought about what our ...

 Each day this week we updated our calendar again. On the Monday, it took a while to get going so we played some action games, moving around, racing in different ways - galloping, trotting, on all fours etc) to try and get in a better mood to do some writing practice. We did writing practice every day, using some more printouts from Letter-join and, on the Friday, from an activity book about spelling, grammar and punctuation. We did a couple of pages about past and present tense, and sentence types. We found a short piano lesson on youtube and Vin practiced playing his keyboard and having fun making up his own tunes. We played a bird spotting game. It's a memory game using 3 part cards - one with a picture, one with a label, and one with both. You need to match up all 3 parts and then write down which bird you have spotted. Vin managed to match a lot of them so did a lot of writing practice! A terrible fate had befallen some of Vinnie's toy sea creatures! They had somehow got f...