Vin's Learning Journey

In the last couple of weeks Vin and I have... Played the robot mouse game Made an Anubis mask Gone for a walk on Ashdown forest and made a fairy village with friends. Complete with train lines! Visited the Ashdown forest visitor centre and learned a bit about the history of the land and the creatures that live there. Volunteered helping weed the orchard at the park Done some foraging in the blackberry bushes nearby and at a friend's garden! Then made an apple and blackberry crumble. Made the nintendo Labo RC car and fishing rod Watched our butterfly caterpillars get even bigger, form chrysalids, then finally emerge and be set free! We experimented with magnets. We collected items to test for magnetism. We made predictions then checked if we were right. There were some surprises! We put iron filings in jars, then filled one jar with water and one with oil. We investigated how the filings moved in the different liquids when magnets were stuck to the jars....

We've carried on with the Egyptian theme this week, as well as some other things. We bought the Usborne book "See Inside Ancient Egypt".   It was really interesting. At the end of the book there were also links to lots of great websites with some fun games to do with Ancient Egypt. We went to the local pet store and met some of the little furry animals Vin made a lego minifigure into the sun god Ra He made a temple for him too We went to the Airshow at Eastbourne "Airbourne". For the next couple days afterwards, vinnie made a lot of paper airplanes and put on his own airshows! (this picture is only about a small fraction of them!) We read the poem "The Crocodile" by Lewis Carroll. Vinnie liked the idea of the little fishies being lured into his snappy mouth! Vin drew a couple of Nile crocodiles. Vin did lots of colouring and activities from his Egyptian activity book. We visited Bedgebury and found some of the sculpures hidd...