Vin's Learning Journey

The past couple of weeks, Vin has started being interested in learning to write. We've been practicing a little bit more than usual from his comics so he can see the "correct" way to form each letter. I've been keeping it very laid back still though as don't want him to feel pressured about it! We did some activities from a Sarah and Duck comic, ready for fireworks night! Of course, Sarah and Duck came to help too. I was so proud of how well he concentrated with the writing activities. We had a good laugh when his toy Sarah had a go at writing too. See if you can spot her rather unusual handwriting attempts on the page :) As it's apple season, we made some fun decorated apple slices! We got some toppings - choc chips, banana chips, and raisins and stuck them to our apple slices with nutella or appelstroop. Vinnie's favourite topping was nutella, raisins and choc chips. My favourite topping was nutella and banana chips! Vin liked the Sarah and Du...

The past few weeks we have done a variety of things in addition to a LOT of reading and playing. We've been keeping an eye out for interesting Autumn fungi. We took some samples of the water at our local park and tested them for phosphates and nitrates to get an idea of how good the water is for plants and creatures to live in. We painted our salt dough models and made a "harvest festival" display. We went on an insect walk with some other home ed families and a local expert. We worked hard at the park, sweeping loose gravel off the paths so they are safer. Vinnie set up his own preschool for his cuddly toys. He made a sign and laid out different activities for them. We made a delicious apple cake. Vinnie made a safari train ride. We helped cut back overhanging branches at the park. And had a celebratory BBQ with the other volunteers. Vinnie organised some wheelbarrow races! We visited the museum and saw some objects people used to have in th...

Last week we went on holiday to Cornwall. On the drive there we saw Stone Henge! We got Vinnie a Numberblocks comics as he really likes the Numberblocks TV show. There were some stackable number block characters with it which he played with loads over the week! They were really great as he was naturally adding them together while he played like they do on the show. He had fun making up his own stories with them. We visited an old tin and copper mine as we were staying right near where all the old tin mining was done. We all agreed we would not want to have been miners. We found a nice playground in Penzance that Vin had a lot of fun playing in! We went on a boat across to St Michael's Mount. At low tides you can actually walk across to it. We went around the grand house on the top of the hill and Vin did the treasure trail to collect a medal at the end. The beach near where we stayed was covered in Portuguese Man-o-war. We learned they are called hydrozoids not a ...

We were away for a week last week and while we were on holiday I realised we hadn't put up all of our Summer activities we did! We were obviously too busy having fun because we did looooadds! We visited Legoland We added glitter to oats to make sparkly sand and hid a puzzle in there to find and make. We saw a play at the park of Alice through the Looking Glass We made letter shapes out of Lego minifigures We found pawprints in the park and made our own out of clay Vinnie discovered he quite likes colouring! We climbed rocks and trees We played hide and seek Vinnie completed the "Animal Agents" reading challenge at the library We saw dinosaurs at the shopping centre! We did trails and activities at the museum We went for walks in rain and shine We played at Bedgebury And at Haysden Country park We played board games And made dens We did a puppetry workshop We did our usual volunteering including bird and bee surveys W...