Vin's Learning Journey

We enjoyed cosmic kids yoga again this week - we watched and joined in with Jaime making a routine for an astronaut who is aboard the international space station and then visiting the European space agency.  We did some more pages from the telling the time activity book. At communigrow we learned about herbs, what some herbs can be used for and went and looked at (and smelled!) different herbs in the field. The children collected the ones they liked then they made their own herbal tea infusion and a herb bath soak. Vin really liked the lemonbalm and enjoyed having his special bath that evening. We got some more library books and story sacks and had fun with those. Vin chose a mountain animal themed wild workout. Vin did some handwriting practice writing out the names of various fruits and vegetables in french. We started the "Wild weather" topic on mystery science which we have done before but it has other activities now and it was quite a few years ago. We learned about the ...

 What a hot hot hot week! It meant we decided to stay at home a bit this week and keep out of the sun. We did do a wild workout though about nocturnal animals, a yoga club with a machine theme, and some ring fit adventure.  We also went to the playground first thing in the morning one day and played some basket/football, and Vin went to the playground with his friend after communigrow though just for a short visit. We talked about the sorts of jobs we do every day or every week to look after ourselves and our home. We decided the word jobs or housework makes it sound boring so Vin renamed them "cherry chores". It sounds cuter! Vin did some lovely drawing (all over our list of cherry chores we'd made!) and taught me how to draw some characters from Grizzy and the Lemmings. (I drew the lady bear)   We spent a bit of time each day thinking of some things we were grateful for in our lives. Vin has spent a bit more time this week helping to prepare snacks and meals. We read ab...