Term 2 Week 8

Zico has been loving having Roald Dahl books read to him at bedtime. We have read 5 so far and watched 3 of the movies to go with them!

Zico as getting better at blowing bubbles.

Zico has been loving drawing on the ipad, here is his peach and grasshopper drawing. Can you guess which Roald Dahl book we were reading?

More drawings, this time of super heroes again.

Gymnastics is going really well for Zico, he gives everything a go but the foam pit is still his favourite.

Duck feeding again!

More and more drawings, superheroes, villains and dinosaurs. Zico has been writing about dinosaurs a lot. We are making a book of all his dinosaur work.

Term 2 Week 7

Literacy: Zico has been following along to more stories on our car journeys. He always manages to find the right page and is totally engaged in the stories. This week he took one of his reading books called Purr-fect to Nana and Grandad's house to read to them. He read it twice, once to each of them and was very proud of himself. This week we have also started a poetry book. Zico loved the first poem so much. It was silly and about Pie. This inspired us to make apple and raisin pie in the afternoon. Zico taught Daddy how to make the pies.

Health: Zico loves fresh seasonal fruit and was super excited to try the biggest fejoas he had ever seen.

 Visual Art: I am thrilled with how much Zico loves to draw these days. He especially loves the whiteboard and the window pens. This week he started drawing before he had even got dressed or had breakfast. It was lovely to see that he had an audience of Puss!

 Zico copied the symbol for The Flash from the cover of this book I am reading.

 Zico has been enjoying doing some number mazes in his star wars maths book. He is learning to recognise the teen numbers.

 Zico's swimming is progressing so fast now. Zico can do lots of swimming on his own and floating on his own too. He really loves his lessons.

 We bought some new paint this week and Zico painted some of his dinosaur characters; Death Spine and Reddots.

 Zico also had a go at following my instructions with pastel and paint to make an autumn tree. This is the type of Art that we often do at school. He enjoyed his own creations way more!

 A visit to queens garden to feed the ducks became even more exciting when we found some painted rocks. Next week we need to paint some of our own and then go and hide them all for someone else to find.

 Zico was learning about the male and female ducks and how the ducks have a bill not a beak.

 Here is the pie making.

Term 2 Week 6

The weeks are flying by, especially since this was a short week. Zico has been doing some amazing swimming this week and is swimming by himself in deep water!
The window crayons and white board proved popular again and we were thrilled that Zico did some more drawings. He is still drawing super heros and villains. Can you spot Marsian Manhunter. 

This week Zico had to go to Birchwood School with Daddy. He had a great time collecting an egg from the chickens and joining in with some guided reading groups. Zico read a book called My Sister so well with the group that we bought it home for him to read again. 

 We have been loving winter sunrises from our living room and winter sunsets too. Since we are awake for both of them (This doesn't happen in summer!). Here is Zico enjoying some stick fighting whilst watching the sunset at the beach.

 We tried to fly a kite but the wind had all died down so Zico had the idea to run with the kite to get it to fly. This worked really well until he got too puffed.

 A visit to founder meant using the old fashioned phone box. Zico loves speaking to Daddy on the phone even if he finds it tricky to talk and listen at the same time.

 The have installed a new round about up the road so we went and tried it out. It was great fun and Zico's first time at making a roundabout go by himself using his foot. On our local walk we have been taking notice of street numbers and talking about odd and even numbers. Zico knows that his age is an even number.

 Playing with Dinosaurs is still very popular with Zico. He has invented side games off our regular game. We now have a new series to play called Fire Proofs many adventures. Zico tells me this actually comes before Stomp (the usual game) so we have gone back in time to before the mummy was married and gave birth to her eggs! Zico's writing when he is with me is nearly always about Dinosaurs too. He has talked about their names, where they live, what they eat and what they do. These ideas have always been his own. It is lovely to see him look back over his work and read his old stories to help him decide what to write about.

 The Neighbours up the road have a new puppy that needs walking whilst they are at work so we said we would take Zico and try it out. Zico wrote about it " I am going to see a puppy today."

Can you spot the full moon rising up over the hill just next to a tree. We have been enjoying the view from our new house and this experience of watching a full moon rise was a new one for Zico.