This week we were both sick with the flu/cold. So unfortunately swimming lessons were cancelled. Zico still managed to get out riding and we made the most of the winter sunshine by visiting the hockey street playground afterwards. Zico has grown in confidence and delighted in playing a chasing game over the stepping stones with me.
We finished Matilda this week and watched the movie too, now we have started the BFG.
It was great to see Zico pick up some scissors this week and start exploring cutting by himself.
Zico had an eye appointment at the hospital and was brave enough to to sit in the chair all by himself for the first time.
Being cooped up at home has meant playing hide and seek and Zico found a good hiding place in the laundry basket. We have also played a family game of combined drawing of made up creatures which Zico adores!
Making use of journeys to places but playing talking books is still popular and this week we listened to the bubbling crocodile.
We made some playdough to play with too since we couldn't leave the house and give others our germs. Zico created a cool looking character.
Finally for the start of the holidays we got out to the Glenn and the beach where we played with sticks and fed the hungry seagulls.
This was the last week for Gymnastics so Zico got a participation certificate, of which he was very proud. Last week we went to a Matariki celebration where Zico had to use his torch to find 4 stars and when he had found them he got this little bag of glow in the dark stars.
We visited Monty this week to see Zico's old teachers and any children that were still there. Kaylene was thrilled to see him but Michelle was sick so we will have to go back again another time. Zico got to join in with the Music programme and try some new work too, which was a science work of using vinegar and baking soda to make a volcano. After our visit we had fun with the old fashioned phone boxes and then went to the cafe for a fluffy and Zico and I completed a children's cross word. Zico was really good at guessing the animals from the clues.
The Roald Dahl obsession continues and this week we did more stamps, having read yet more books Zico knew who even more of the characters were. We finished reading the Giraffe the Pelly and me and started reading Matilda. Zico's own writing is still about Dinosaurs and each day he adds more details to his dinosaur writing.
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.
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.
