A Learning Experience to Remember: August 2021-August 2022

Sophia greeted me at 6.30am with, "What fun things are we going to do today?", followed up by Kira answering, "Let's do horses". I didn't even have to open my mouth before they had decided in what order to start the day. That was fine by me, decision making skills being exercised before my brain had caught up on what day, month, year we are in. We cracked on straight away after Xanders's first meds of the day. We started with the information book on horses, then viewed some horses and their roles on YouTube, followed up by an informative video on horses presented by the children's presenter Blippi, who is a great, fun presenter for this age group.  Sophia was delighted to see that one of her favourite child YouTubers, Adley (from A for Adley), also had some videos on the topic of horses, so they were eagerly watched. In Sophias mind she has scored a victory having 'free tv' before midday. It was an interesting video to be honest with a young ...

Hello everyone, we started the first official day in our learning journey. I implemented my new plan to tackle spelling by introducing the ‘At' family.  As I sat down with the girls they automatically reached for paper, fair enough it was clearly going to be a spelling and handwriting practice combo session. The girls quickly caught on to the pattern and spelt nine words easily. Sophia then made a sentence using several ‘At' words. She found the session really easy once she could apply the logic. We also started our ‘On the farm’ project which will hopefully continue all year through. I am following a set of DeAgostini ‘My animal family' books, which corresponds to a farm set collection. This week’s book was on cows.  The girls were very enthusiastic, I started by reading the first two pages of the book to them whilst they were holding the cows from the farm set. They then watched YouTube videos which reflected what we had read and talked about. Sophia fell in love with a n...