Vin's Learning Journey

 In no particular order, in the last few weeks we have got up to the following things:  We worked on maths and english activity books. Including a new book called "Sherlock Bones" which has maths puzzles to solve. Vin wrote some nice things that are good about himself. Vin followed some instructions sent by his friend to create his own craft mouse toy. Vin and his Oma excavated some real crystals then read about them Vin made a pasta bake with not too much help We did lots of animal themed activities and sticker books We played football in the rain We went to the library and borrowed a LOT of books We went out and about spotting signs of Autumn We learned about our own history We played lots of maths games on paper and on the computer and just quizzing each other while bouncing balloons or balls to each other. We ate lots of cake We did some Lego Ninjago lessons from the Into Film website. We watched the film, talked about the characters and Vin is making his own comic book f...

 During the Summer we had a bit of time off from recording much of our home education things. We still did stuff to keep busy, we made up games in the garden with chalk, we made our own bean bags with old socks and bird seed and played games with them. We did quite a few mystery science activities including learning about fossils and clouds, how to identify different types of frogs and also learned about birds, bird feeders and made a prototype bird feeder. We read books, went for walks and did puzzles and of course Vin built a ton of lego. We had a bit more of a laid back time. Since we started back "properly" we have: Read about seeds and eggs and pondered why they look different in some ways and the same in others. We've chatted about evolution and where all life on Earth could have begun. We thought about what features of different seeds and eggs could help their species to survive. We went for a walk on the green near our house to find some seeds! We found a lot o...

We continued our Viking theme with some fun papercraft models. We cut out and made a Viking Helmet and a Longship. We also looked at 3d models on the computer of a helmet, axe and longship and talked about them. We printed out and learned to play a board game that was popular during Viking times and could have been an ancestor to modern chess. Hnefatafl! We printed some activity sheets with Viking runes. We chose Viking names for ourselves and wrote them using the runes. We learned about the Norse gods and had some sheets to decode runes that spelled their names. Vin made up his own Norse god. He is a Jotunn (which are the giants). We read lots of comics and did puzzles from them. We watched quite a few of the BBC Bitesize daily 7-9 year olds programs, including ones with poems, decimals, rhythm, the Romans, states of matter (solid, liquid or gas) and did some activities from those. Vin played the Karate Cats maths game on the bitesize website. We solved the Portrait Galler...