Vin's Learning Journey

 We had a fun Halloween weekend last week - after I'd posted the blog we did some more spooky themed things including some skip counting dot to dot pictures (odd number dots and counting in tens) and Vinnie did lots of dressing up and we looked at some spooky picture books on Vooks. During the week we read two more chapters from Frog and Toad are friends and did some activities for them. We learned about nouns and spotted some nouns in sentences then practiced andwriting by writing them out again. The other activity involved spotting punctuation at the end of sentences and then adding the correct punctuation to the ends of some sentences and a recap of nouns by circling the nouns. We watched Lego Build to Launch mission 2. We learned about the roles of Launch Director and Flight Director for the NASA missions. We talked about autonomous vehicles and why they need them then designed and built our own lunar rover. On the Day of the Dead we looked at pictures of ofrenda and read about...

 We seemed to pack a lot into this week!  We practiced some more capital letter writing. Then changed our writing practice up a bit with some activities based on the book "Frog and Toad are friends" by Arnold Lobel. On one day we read the first chapter, talked about how a piece of writing has an author and a title. Then we wrote our own short stories (we chose the theme of food!).  On another day we read the next chapter, answered some questions about it and then wrote down the title, author and main characters from 3 books we had at home, trying to use our nicest joined up writing of course.  We built a little lego skull from a Lego Explorer magazine and read some of the information and activities. There were some optical illusions and quizzes.  We also started the Lego "Build to Launch" activities - we watched the mission briefing and did the first mini mission - giving each other clear detailed step by step instructions as if we were programming a robot. We h...