Week 3 Home Ed

Another busy week for Zico with lots of varied learning.

Zico has been consolidating his knowledge of letter names and sounds. He chose to do his alphabet puzzle on Monday as said the sounds as he put the pieces away. Then Zico made his name and I asked him to make mine.  Zico has said that he enjoys reading and we have been reading 3 books a day.  For writing Zico has gotten faster and his letter formation is getting better. He has written some more I can see sentences.
I  can see a hook. I can see a banana. I can see a bottom. I am going fishing. 

 Zico enjoyed using scissors to cut out some minifig pictures. He invented stories around them being clones for his new character robot face.

 When we were using the glue stick Zico wanted to do some more glueing. I found some shapes for him to glue and asked if he wanted to make a picture. He chose to make some patterns and then asked me what was next in the pattern. We talked about how one pattern had 2 repeating elements, triangle circle, and the other had 3, triangle, circle, rectangle. He then wrote the digits 2 and 3 next to the patterns.

 Zico asked for his Duplo and made lots of robots. He is so good at building and creating stories around them.

 Zico has been enjoying time on Studyladder learning maths. His favourite is an addition battle game. He is learning to use his fingers to either count all or count on from the biggest number to get the answer.

 Zico's confidence in his body is growing. He has re-discovered his love of playgrounds. This week he's been on the flying fox at Hockey Street playground for the first time and climbed the steep ladder to this slide at the beach playground.

Our day started with writing about our planned afternoon fishing trip.

Zico decided to write "I am going fishing", he drew a kayak on the sea to go with this.

Zico learned to hold his own rod and wind when he had caught a fish.

We studied the bird life that surrounded us and went over the names of all the seabirds we could see: Gannets, Terns, Blackback gulls, red beaked gulls and shags.

We also looked at the tides and the effect it had on our kayak as we drifted back to shore on an incoming tide.

After lunch we were off to gymnastics, Zico went on the beam, the trampoline, the rolling ramp, the bar and through the big tube, the instructor was amazed that Zico remembered how to use everything on the circuit with no repeated instructions.

Phew, then back home again for our reading and basic sight words...what a busy day!