Vin's Learning Journey

 We went out for a walk each morning to check out all the changes in the nearby building sites and to do some iceskating on the puddles. We did some quizzes from white rose maths every day and then played a game. We had a quick fire recap of number bonds finishing maths questions and picking actions to do that many times. We added up the values of 5 number playing cards and found groups that helped make it easier to add them and threw the ball (or a gorilla!) to each other that many times. We rolled two 20 sided dice and added them together then ran up and down the stairs for the number of tens and star jumps for the ones. We took turns to pick 2 dominos out of a bag then used the left side as tens and the right side as ones and practiced writing out column addition. Then did actions for the tens and ones of course! (And then Vin did 96 star jumps!) Vinnie wrote a very nice thank you card for a Christmas gift. We read about Space on readworks articles, our theme for the next few mo...

We had these weeks off as holiday. We were also unwell for week 1 of 2023 so we took week 2 as a bonus week off to recover!  We went to look at pretty lights at Bedgebury Pinetum, ate marshmallows and met Father Christmas. We attempted to make some more sushi! Vin wrote a nice Christmas list  We had fun playing with all the new toys, building lego and reading books. We took Vinnie's new binoculars out to try them out. We met some dinos And Vinnie lost a tooth We had a nice time relaxing and charging up ready for more fun at Bowser Academy!

 This is our last week of the year before we take 3 weeks off for Christmas and New Year. Our week started with something a bit unusual - snow! We went sledging, built a snow gorilla, had snowball fights and of course, as per our theme, built snow castles! Our theme for article of the week this week is all about the lead up to the Age of Exploration. We read about the travels of Marco Polo, the methods used for navigation, the spice trade, and the new ships the Europeans started making in the Middle Ages to help them travel longer distances. We had some more fun with numbers. We practiced more adding and subtracting within 20 and tried out some different methods of making it easier when subtracting such as breaking the number down so you can get to an easier number first then subtract the rest. We played sum bingo, a sum matching memory game, a number bonds to 20 matching memory game, and a game where we had to find the missing number to add to make a total and do that many of an a...

 Our theme for article of the day is landmarks of Latin America. Our first stop was to look up where Latin America is! We read about the Atacama Desert, and about Machu Picchu, the Uyuni salt flat of Bolivia, and the Andes mountains. We practiced some more adding and subtracting within 20 and played catch with a beanbag while trying to guess a number and giving clues of higher or lower. If we dropped the beanbag we had to subtract the number of throws already done from the total to see how many throws we had left. We threw 20 blocks at a target and wrote fact families for the number in or out totalling 20. We rolled two twenty sided dice and found the difference between the numbers, wrote a number sentence for each one and did that many star jumps! We did more activities from the White Rose maths resources. We made some Christmas cards and Christmas magnets to send to people. We read another Spanish story. This one was about hobbies, we looked up some words, answered the quiz and s...