Roly Counting

Will be back with a proper update from our hols later but wanted to record this before I forgot.

Roly is sat looking at a treasure hunt book and trying to count tigers. His counting is 'one, one, one, one, threeeeeee'

So cute!

London calling!

Apologies, failing miserably on keeping up with the blogging recently.

We've had a busy couple of weeks including a fab trip to London where we did an open top bus trip, boat trip, wandered around Chinatown and Covent Garden and generally had a nice time. We usually spend most of our time in London in the museums so it was good to have a change.

Keeping on keeping on

Things just seem to be going on without much planning at the moment. Days are passing by in a whirl of 'same old!'

Playgroup, HE group, swimming, gym, reading, drawing, maths games, board games, singing and pancakes.

Both boys are happy and that's the main thing!

This pic is one Chops did this week of ACDC guitarist Angus Young. He's very much into his rock music at the moment and spends a lot of time watching YouTube videos of them and then singing them himself with his guitar.

Electricity

We went to a very interesting workshop about electricity this week with our HE friends. The children had the chance to make their own circuits and then completed an experiment about what happened when you made the wires longer. It was the first time Chops had been in a 'classroom' situation with having to put your hand up to answer questions etc and I think he found the idea a bit perplexing! He enjoyed the activities though and I think I'll try to get some of the equipment for him to experiment a but more with it at home.

Life Cycle of a Butterfly

Finished off the Spring theme this week by looking at the life cycle of a butterfly. We read Very Hungry Caterpillar (a lot), looked in our encyclopaedia and on YouTube.

Over the week we did papier mâché over a balloon to be the cocoon, painted it and then painted a butterfly to go inside. When painting we talked about the colour mixing and also the symmetry of the butterfly's wings.

I'll probably try to find symmetry in one of his workbooks next week to look at it a bit more.

I think we're done for Spring now. It's involved a lot of life cycles - frogs, butterflies, plants, farm animals.

Next subject to be confirmed! Chops picked a few books from the library this week so will see if one of those sparks an interest. Plus there are trips to Spain and London in the not too distant future that we can start preparing for! And the Olympics. I've seen Twinkl have put some Olympics resources up this week so need to have a look at those.

Where did the sun go?

Back to winter coats and cold noses at the beach!

More Easter Fun

Easter wouldn't be Easter without chocolate nests filled with mini eggs.

The boys worked together to make them this year which was lovely to watch.