18 - 24 October (week 42)

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This week we had 2 playdates with new people! Vin did great meeting some new friends who live in our new neighbourhood. 

We talked about the ways we look after ourselves.

We practiced capital letters from the Letterjoin website every day this week. 

We did 2 Mystery science lessons this week as Vinnie was so excited to continue them! The first lesson we watched the dominos world record for knocking the biggest domino over with smaller ones. Then we started building our own chain reaction machine. We watched some other chain reactions videos to get inspired as well as looking back at our Rube Goldberg machine diagram and figuring out the places where energy is transferred by collisions. Vin experimented with dominos and his toy cars afterwards. 



 

The second lesson we finished our chain reaction machine and learned about how it takes a lot of attempts to get it working properly! Of course we watched even more chain reaction videos on youtube! We also found out that the lady who helps on mystery science wrote a book that Vinnie has with chain reactions for lego! 


 

Vin has been reading his Aquila magazines and telling me some things about the Ice Age and Detectives. 

We had some fun doing some maths magic from a library book. We made our own "I can guess your number" equation and had a go at filling in some magic square puzzles where every row, column and diagonal add up to a particular number. 



Vin has been chopping up lots of apples this week for snack time! 

We read another Autumn poem and looked at the painting "The Mulberry Tree" by Vincent Van Gogh. 

We thought about our goals and things that we want to achieve in the future and what is important to us and talked about the importance of respecting other people's goals that may be different to our own.


 

We chose a tree in the park to be our Tree Study for the year. Vin picked the tree he liked the look of, we took bark rubbings and photos, wrote down things we noticed about it, drew and labelled a map of where it is in the park and drew a picture of it. 



 

We talked about how you can estimate the height of a tree by looking backwards through your legs and finding the point where you can just see the top of the tree. This gives about a 45 degree angle so we drew a diagram of why it works that if you can see the top of the tree this way then you're about as far from the tree as it is tall.






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