27 Feb - 5 March (week 9)

Unwellness struck again this week , what an unlucky year so far. So our fun got a bit cut short. 

We went to the playground a couple of times and admired the daffodils.

We did some activities on White Rose maths about Position and direction. We found out the direction that each wall of the living room was with a compass and luckily they fell pretty near to the points of the compass. We played direction dance moves taking it in turns to call out quarter or half turns in certain directions and different dances.

We did the mystery science lesson of "how can the sun tell you the season?". Then we read a readworks article about Why is it colder in the winter? 

We tested our reflexes in the Train like an Astronaut mission this week, seeing how quickly we could grab a dropped ruler. With practice, our reflexes got quicker.

Vin did some more position and direction puzzles from his maths practice book. 

We played with the programmable robot mouse, making some mazes and planning what turns and movements he would need. We used the compass points we made for the walls around the maze so we could talk about "a quarter turn anticlockwise so he is facing west" and that sort of thing. 

We played lots of board games this week - times table heroes, pop to the shops a couple of times, and pictionary at a friend's house.

We read a lot of books.

Hopefully next week we can try and have a "normal" week.