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.

Term 2 Week 5

At the end of the week it was my birthday, Zico got to use his writing for an authentic context by writing in my card with Daddy. To celebrate my old age we went out on our double kayak as a family. Zico loved the big swell and got excited by the wavy wobbles. We had a picnic and cake on the beach.

We visited Animal Farm and were excited to see that the Alpacas had escaped! We made sure that we shut the gate and told the owners who then went to round them up. We loved seeing them gallop around. They can move quite fast.

Zico was super brave and fed, sheep, goats, pigs, Alpacas and Donkeys. We went in to see the Goats but the were as big as Zico and a little too interested in getting very close to them so it was a short visit!

Zico has been getting more into healthy eating. He's been having a huge fruit salad for lunch and snacking on healthy raw natural bliss balls.  He's also gotten enthusiastic about drawing. This week he has been drawing on a whiteboard and with special window pens on the windows too. Can you spot Superman, Harlequin, Batman, The Riddler, Joker and Batgirl?

Zico has been reading more books and is really good at making connections between the books. Zico loved reading fire fire as there was a Puss that goes under the deck just like our cat Pixie does. Zico also enjoys reading his own writing and looking back at what he has written before. He is trying to write lots about his dinosaur creations. This week his writing was the smallest he has ever done. He wrote I made a little baby Dimorfadon.
Zico has been working on numeral identification and ordering numbers up to 30. He is also learning how to write the numerals too.

Term 2 Week 4

Another week of trying some science experiments. This week we tried to put a sharp stick through a balloon without it popping by covering it in vaseline. We also watched the colour and sugar dissolve on 4 M and M's. It was fun watching the M's float off. After the balloon experiment Zico and I played with a balloon. It was great throwing and catching and hand eye coordination practise.

We got our old ipad out this week and Zico used a drawing programme called Lazoo to draw lots of different super heroes. Here is his picture of Robin.

Zico also discovered drawing on the magna doodle. He drew Batman, Riddler, and all sort of other heroes and villains.

Zico has been reading heaps of new books over the past few weeks. He is reading a variety of books that are easy and some which have a few tricky words in too. This week one of our books was a counting and rhyming book called Seven Big Bubbles. After reading the book we got out our own bubble mixture and blew bubbles too.

As well as Superheroes, Zico loves Dinosaurs and the writing lately has been all about Dinosaurs. Zico has started to add colour to his drawings and he is now writing on lines and learning about half size, tall stick and hanging letters.