Adventure Island
Brilliant day!Toby woke pretty early and did some JavaScript and worked on a blog post.On the drive to Adventure Island, Toby read lots of the last How to train your dragon book.Once there Toby and Eve played on a climbing frame to start with. We spent ages on the...
Parks
This morning Toby woke early and started programming in JavaScript. He was pleased when he managed to get his code with conditionals to work. He has got the idea of using and iterating counters. He then wrote a couple of blog posts - he was interested in using...
ehT terces edoc
I would like to tell you something. ehT terces edoc si OOPS, I'm using it already! Text equals - backwards Numbers equals - shift
Times Tables 1 – 12
All the simple ones 1, 10 and 11 They are simple because 1*x = x, 10*x = x with a zero on the end, and 11*x is just xx! 1 x 1 = 1, 1 x 2 = 2, 1 x 3 = 3, 1 x 4 = 4, 1 x 5 = 5, 1 x 6 = 6, 1 x 7 = 7, 1 x 8 = 8, 1 x 9 = 9, 1 x 10 = 10, 1 x 11 = 11. ehT terces tib ! X !@ +...
Jump and Thames Chase
We watched an In a nutshell about Dark Matter at breakfast time.We went to Jump Evolution trampoline special needs session with Jasmine. Toby had breaks every 10 mins and managed to keep calm the whole time. We had a brilliant time!Toby read lots of a new How to train...
Story for Eve
Once upon a time, there lived a girl.The girl's name was Eve.She was very tired, so she wanted to go to sleep.Her dad's name was Christopher.Christopher told Eve, "You need to clean your teeth!" Eve replied, drearily, "I'm so tired!", And Cristopher replied, "But if...
Planetarium
Toby watched In a nutshell about Malaria at breakfast.Toby read more How to train your dragon books on the way to the planetarium.At the planetarium we watched the solar system show (which Toby had seen before), he sung the songs and had fun.Toby, Jasmine and Chris...
Jasmine arrived!
Toby started reading How to train a dragon as soon as he woke up and continued reading at breakfast time.We walked to take Eve to preschool - they had fun together and Toby wrote a blog post about it!We went to the playground followed by street climbing. Toby played...
A little walk to the woods
Toby (me writing this), 'dropping' Eve off at preschool, well Eve made up a little game where you run into each other and when you hit you say "Bomp!"A little later, going down the 3rd hill, Eve said "Yowl!" (Silent 'l' there or at least half silent.) and put her head...
Geomag
Watching In a nutshell over breakfast.Walked Eve to preschool and back but it was raining a bit so no playground.At home he did some IQ puzzles and read How to train your dragon book.We walked to collect Eve then went to the playground and street climbing.At home Toby...
SNAPtastic
Toby watched In a nutshell over breakfast.He read Astrosaurs and then How to train a dragon on the way to SNAPtastic.We had a brief walk in the woods before SNAPtastic.We went in and Toby was upset because George wasn't there. I hadn't anticipated this and should...
Borromean rings
We watched In a nutshell about Energy at breakfast time.We walked Eve to preschool and then went to the playground and then the street climbing. We spent ages climbing - we extended Toby's game from yesterday with more prices for items at the shop.While at the...
Playground
We woke up and had to get ready quick to walk Eve to preschool. Toby watched Numberphile videos on number patterns while we had breakfast.We went to the skate park and then to the playground - discussing insect bites and immune response and then maths while we were...
Harrow lodge
Toby watched In a nutshell this morning at breakfast time.He read Astrosaurs Academy on the way to Harrow Lodge.We wanted to go to parkrun but didn't quite make it! Instead we ran to the playground and played on the climbing frames. Eve and Toby were super sweet...
Woods
Toby wrote up the rules to an emoji picture game that he made up in Notes.He spent quite a bit of time texting Aunty Tracey. He did a Maths EdPlace followed by a comprehension and poetryEnglish ones.He drew a game maze where the player has to go round the maze in the...
Aimee and Erin over
Toby drew Maths pictures first thing this morning.Aimee and Erin came over for the day today :)We walked to the park together and went to street climbing and the playground. Toby played brilliantly with Aimee, Erin and Eve!We walked home through the woods and did lots...
Illusions
We walked Eve to preschool and then came back via a quick visit to the rally skatepark and then playground. We walked through the woods on the way home.Toby came up with an idea of making a special code that he could share with his cousins. Once at home we did some...
Family tree again
Family tree app first thing in the morning!Walked Eve to preschool and then back and got very rained on.Reading Dread Cat in the car.More family tree with Chris while I was helping my Mum with moving. And more in the afternoon!Stuffitystuff with Eve.Geomag - teaching...
Family tree
Woke up early and drew the imaginary playground from his dream.Played the puzzle game for a few minutes.Watched In a nutshell on Genetic Engineering.Walked Eve to preschool then went to the playground afterwards and made lots of elements of the periodic table. Walked...
Back home again
Toby did Gadget in the car. He was using the Ancestry app to build our family tree. Maggy had already helped a bit with this. We have also contacted Tony and Sarah, who researched my side of the family a couple of years ago, to see if they can export any information...
Norfolk Day 3
When he woke up this morning Toby wanted to do Math Factor straight away. Toby made great progress with swimming again today. He used the snorkel and was able to swim several lengths chasing his teacher (Luke) and float for a very long time.
Norfolk Day 2
Trampoline Playground Swimming, Toby managed to swim a whole length without touching the floor. Then we squirted each other with water pistols! We played Cluedo Junior, Toby won after Maggy failed her accusation.
Norfolk
Toby read a Planets encyclopaedia first thing this morning. He then did some more on his comic strip story. We watched VSauce at breakfast time - v interesting about the speed of dark. Toby was reading Astrosaurs books in the car on the way to Norfolk. We did some 11+...
Football
We watched In a nutshell at breakfast time.Toby read All About Money book - lots of great finance information made fun!He did lots more JavaScript and then some EdPlace.They managed to play stuffitystuff together successfully!We went over the field - Toby ran around...
SNAPtastic
Toby woke up early and did JavaScript programming straight away. Prime numbers and a kind of story too!We watched Vi Hart at breakfast time.Toby read the 3rd book in the How to train your dragon series.We went for a walk in Holly Woods to get a photo of the chasm....
Shapes!
Toby woke up wanting to read Savage Shapes - Murderous Math, we found it in the car and he read for nearly an hour!We watched Vi Hart and Numberphiles at breakfast time. Toby is very interested in shapes!We walked Eve to preschool and then went to the playground. Toby...
Aimee and Erin over
Toby started reading the 1st How to train your dragon book this morning.We watched Vsauce over breakfast then Toby read some more How to train your dragon.Both Toby and Eve decided they wanted to walk all the way to Harold Court playground so that is what we did! They...
Grandma and Grandad’s
This morning Toby was reading Astrosaurs.We watched VSauce - Banach-Tarski paradox.We went to Grandma and Grandad's. Toby was reading Terry Pratchett's Dragons. We then played in the garden for ages - playing 'it'. Toby was playing with the puppies...
Vi Hart inspiration
Toby read lots of Astrosaurs.We watched Vi Hart over breakfast. Toby did tonnes of Vi Hart inspired drawings - great stuff!He did JavaScript programming - really great line script - great colours.He also did Gadget and used an audio recording he made earlier on.We...
Colchester 🙂
Lots of reading Astrosaurs in the morning, on the train journey and on the walk into Colchester Town Centre.Toby was so excited to see his cousins, it was brilliant 🙂 We went to Waterstones first where he read a Dr Seuss book and tried to draw 4 dimensional shapes at...
Astrosaurs
Reading periodic table book.Reading Astrosaurs- Earth attack.Walking Eve to preschool and going to the playground. We had to be back in time for Tesco shopping.MathFactor Percentages of 10 and 100.EdPlace maths place value.More reading AstrosaursWalking to collect Eve...
SNAPtastic
Talking about electric cars so Toby drew a house and car and the charge points.Reading the periodic table book.Exploring woods by SNAP as we were early. Trying to identify trees and taking lots of photos.SNAPtastic. As soon as we went in, Toby started talking to an...
Drawing
Reading Magic Tree House books and watching Vi Hart.Walked Eve to preschool and went to the playground and street climbing. Walked home Daddy's way.Continuing to write his Question Quark story.MathFactor on Percentages - this seems a good level for Toby at the...
Rainy day
Toby watched Vi Hart Hexeflexagons again!Toby made an interesting concertina by folding two strips of paper together and added notes to each section!We walked Eve to preschool in the light rain then went to Hilldene. Toby chose 4 books from the charity shop and...
A new story
Toby watched Vi Hart at meal times - he knows lots of the words to the Hexaflexagon videos now! He started a new Percentages and money module in MathFactor and did 2 practices. He also did a Science EdPlace about Marbles. He started writing a story call Question...
Fantasy football
A brilliant day 🙂 Toby watched Vi Hart over breakfast and did an EdPlace before we left. He read Billions of robot bees book in the car on the way to Norfolk. Once at Maggy and Linda's, Toby had a brilliant time! He bounced on the trampoline for ages on his own and...
Hexaflexagon!
We watched Vi Hart videos while eating breakfast. We walked Eve to preschool then went to the playground. We went to Hilldene shops, Toby was patient! Once at home we did Math Factor square number, cube number and square root grand genius test. We then did 3 EdPlace...
Vocabulary
Toby watched Vi Hart doodling in math class videos over breakfast. We did 4 different sessions on Math Factor, they were on Cube Numbers, Square numbers and adding positive and negative numbers. Toby then did more Vocabulary app. We printed off some triangular paper...
More maths
We watched Vi Hart at breakfast time, lots about Pythagoras. We walked Eve to preschool then went to the playground and walked home through the woods. At home we did square roots and cube numbers - which were much harder! We need to memorise them! Also did some...
GP and maths
We watched a VSauce about the surface of earth while eating breakfast. We walked Eve to preschool then went to the playground. Toby was finding the ingredients for gingerbread men again 🙂 Toby played with a little girl called Sydney. Toby read 78-storey treehouse in...
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I'm Toby, this is me....well this is me behind a geometrical shape I made, but you get the idea.
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