This morning Toby and I were doing square numbers on Math Factor then Toby started writing down additions to make square numbers and worked out completely on his own a pattern to make square numbers. He then wrote down the algebra for this pattern. We discussed my...

We watched Ted Eds this morning including one about how graphs can be misleading. Toby enjoyed this and drew a misleading graph himself! Watched Vi Hart. Drawing mazes. Playing Duplo with Eve. Walked through the woods to see Chris Jose playing football with Chris and...

Spreadsheets - functions and thinking it was very funny that he got an infinite recursion error! He could explain why he got the error too. Drove to take Eve to preschool as too many bags. Went to the skatepark and then street climbing. Went to Boots and popped in to...

We walked Eve to preschool then went to the playground and street climbing. Toby was showing me all the moves he can do and asking for photos. We sent them to Jasmine too 🙂 Toby then wanted to show me 'Daddy's way' home that Chris had taken him when I'd been doing...

I didn't end up writing the blog yesterday so here goes! Toby did lots more maze drawings - he is starting to draw characters in his mazes which is unusual but great! He now has faces and sabre tooth bananas 🙂 We walked in the woods, Toby and Eve were doing brilliant...

Reading Murderous Maths of Everything book Walked Eve to and from preschool. Unfortunately Toby has been put off the park because someone set fire to the Street Climbing 🙁 Discussing how taxes work. What do they pay for? Who pays them and how much? Using percentages....

Writing a google document about maths! Reading Dragon Gold Junior Parkrun! Watching bits of Interstellar with Chris - talking about the effects of black holes. Read more on the way to Julie's. Doing spreadsheets  Watching Vi Hart Drawing mazes More reading! Going...

Spreadsheets Playing monster bingo - stopped doing his iPad time to Monster Bingo!  Reading Alfie Onion Playground * 2 - we went to Harold Wood park first and then St Neots playground afterwards because Toby really wanted to! More reading Alfie Onion We took Toby...

Watched Vi Hart while eating breakfast. Enthusiastic about making Hexaflexagons! Walked Eve to preschool then came with me to the post office and watched more Vi Hart about prime numbers while we waited. Talked about the prime numbers on the way home and how it would...

Walked Eve to preschool then went to the playground the street climbing but put off by the burnt area 🙁 Walked home through the woods. I was trying to encourage Toby to identify trees but he wasn't so interested so we ended up talking about what makes something alive...

Reading magnets book and playing with various magnets Reading Algebra and geometry book Spreadsheets - using more complex formulae  Scooted to take Eve to preschool Went to playground and street climbing Handled rejection Talked about burnt street climbing ...

Toby started reading Astrosaurs as soon as he woke up! He watched Vi Hart - Snowflakes, starflakes and swirlflakes! Walked Eve to preschool then went scooting in the basketball court and then playground. Street climbing. Came home and did Math Factor - remainders and...

Toby watched Vi Hart cookie shapes about baking interesting geometrical shapes with cookies! He was really interested in this and talked about it while walking back from preschool so we are going to order some shape cookie cutters so we can give it a go 🙂 We walked...

Toby did Beaker chemistry app for mixing elements and watching reactions on the way to parkrun. Toby did Junior Parkrun enthusiastically , he ran really well using boosters again! He didn't want to go at all when he woke up but was keen once we arrived. This was his...

This morning Toby started the day coding again! Toby and Eve made a den together in Toby's room with chairs, blankets and pegs. Toby did Geomag - he enjoyed making ornaments today! Toby drew a fantastic zooming in picture that went from the Galaxy level all the way...

JavaScript coding Reading Astrosaurs- Robot Raiders More coding Walking to preschool Hairdressers - amazing, we haven't been able to take Toby to the hairdressers for a long time - he would get too anxious. Today he was a bit worried at first but settled down and his...

JavaScript coding - writing a function to draw a house. He named the function and variables sensibly 🙂 Block shapes Reading Astrosaurs  Walking to take Eve to preschool  Skatepark- coming up with tests that we both had to pass! Playground Street climbing -...

JavaScript coding - using conditionals. He was writing his conditions in the way we talk so I explained why you had to write it unambiguously for the computer to understand. He listened really well and understood 🙂 Lots of time programming. Reading funny bits of...

This morning Toby started writing a new story on the iPad. He then continued his hyperdot coding with JavaScript. Toby did lots of reading on the way to High Lodge to meet Maggy and drop Jasmine off. Unfortunately High Lodge was closed but luckily we found Brandon...

Watching VSauce - fixed points Finishing reading Dragon Gold Walking to the playground through the woods. Had a great time with Jasmine - looking for terrapins, pretending to be wheely bins! Running around and exploring 🙂 Went to playground  Went to street...

Counting his change jar to see how much he still needs to save for a new pack of Geomag Imaginary play with Eve Watching VSauce about Space Word game like boggle on the iPad with me Coding square function then diamond using translate and rotate - didn't want to stop...

Watching Ted Eds - recent ones and then searching for maths one that he liked - e.g. how to defeat a dragon with maths! Doing music production with Chris on the iPad. Reading Dragon Gold on the way to Kidspace. Brilliant time in Kidspace. Toby was tall enough for the...

Brilliant day today! Reading Astrosaurs early in the morning and then Geomag. We went trampolining and Toby was doing great full turns. Aunty Maggy got the paddling pool out. At first Toby and Eve were watering the plants and trampoline then started getting Jasmine....

Reading Astrosaurs Academy this morning and in the car. We went to Dinosaur Adventure Park today - it was brilliant 🙂 Played for ages on the playground - lots of climbing, swinging and stuff! Went fossil hunting in the sand. Zip wire. Toby and Chris played the crazy...

Toby wrote Chris's card first and wrote him maths questions. He was great when Chris opened his presents. He helped with making icing for fairy cakes. He did some Hama beads. Read lots of Astrosaurs Academy and 13-storey treehouse. He did Geomag then spent ages doing...

Watching Numberphiles and CGP Grey - for ages! Reading Mr Men books, Astrosaurs Academy, 13-storey, 26-storey and 78-storey treehouse! Some in car, some at home and some at the wedding party. Making chocolate fairy cakes with Eve! Doing Hama beads. Getting himself wet...

Did some Hama beads this morning, came up with great ideas for Hama Beads presents for Fathers Day Scooted to take Eve to preschool Went to the playground. Swung on the swings while seeing how high he could count! Math factor - estimating additions and subtractions....

Read Mr Men books when he woke up Did Geogebra once reading Scooted to take Eve to preschool Ran around skatepark  Playground - lots of swinging Discussing maths - how to find out if any number is divisible by 3. Find digital root and see if divisible by 3 -...

This morning we put all of Toby's books on to his new book shelves. Toby did some organising of the books but then found 65-storey treehouse and read all of it! Toby then created a spreadsheet of all of Eve's imaginary creatures. He put the first syllables vertically...

Reading Astrosaurs book in the morning Walking/scooting to take Eve to preschool Going to the playground and street climbing afterwards Math Factor - starting a new topic, Ratio and Proportion. Toby concentrated for a long time and did well. Used BBC bitesize -...

Reading Astrosaurs from 6am! Doing patterns with the wooden Tetris shape blocks.  Scooting/walking to take Eve to preschool - Toby wasn't keen before leaving but agreed he was having a great time once out - he is calling it the reverse block!  Skatepark and...

We went to Granny and Granddad's caravan today for Granny's birthday. Playing lots of board games with Aimee, Erin and Hayley including word search, connect 4, magnet game. Played outside with the water pistols with cousins and Eve. It was very funny and brilliantly...

Walking to take Eve to preschool. Going to the shops to get cards and crafts - he was working out factorials whilst we were going round! Talking about the election and looking at the results on the BBC website Working out factorials and doing math factor on different...

This morning we walked Eve to preschool then came home via the skatepark and playground. We didn't stay long as we had a visit from the HE dept. Ann visited us at 10am. Toby was reading the Fiendish Angletron and a new Astrosaurs book while she was here. He responded...