This Homeschooling Life

So I missed last months Home Schooling round up as we have been away so much over the past month which has been fantastic for learning on the go but has also meant I had fallen a little behind with my monthly update so in this post I will be sharing what we have been learning throughout Feb and March.

Exploring Welsh Castles

There have been a few changes to our normal routine of late as Baby G is firmly on his way of no longer being a baby but rather a toddler and is very mobile since he started walking at 10.5 months and will be 14 months soon. This has meant that when he used to be happy to sit in his highchair or with some of his toys while we did workbook or crafts is no longer the case. We still try and fit small projects in each day but a lot of our learning has naturally moved outdoors with the change in the seasons as well as Baby G's ever increasing mobility.

Saying that we have still been doing a fair amount of water-colour painting as not only does this provide a creative outlet but also encourages eye hand co-ordination, we have also discovered foil sticker making which has been a popular activity. We were sent a number bundle - a mathematics activity box to try out and as Mr A's interest lean more to maths at the moment than reading and writing we were pretty excited to get stuck in, it supports the national curriculum and is mined at children age 3-7yrs. There is a variety of crafts in the box and we enjoyed making the abacas the most and using it for basic sums.

Our homemade abacus 

Since we have done a fair amount of travel over the past month we have been focusing on the world map as well as the solar system and have followed that through into some of our lego builds which has included city landscapes and forms of transport such as ships and a helicopter Mr A built. Hopefully in our new home (when we finally move that is) I will have more space or ideally a separate room where we can set up everything we need such as a noticeboard from teachers board or black board, shelves for filing and space to hang up work. As you can imagine I have been looking on Pinterest at creative spaces for learning and have a fair few ideas when we finally setting in a new place.

In terms of outdoor learning and adventures, we have been exploring some fairly local castles such as Caerphilly Castle as well as the Celtic village at St Fagans. We also visited an outdoor farm park which I will share in another post, plus of course our forest adventures in both the UK and Helsinki.

As with any family dynamic things change all the time and we are just trying to go with the flow at the moment and are looking forward to a fun action packed summer and I have put a little round up vlog together about some of the things we have been using to aid our learning journey so do check it out. Also if you Home School why not link up with This Homeschooling Life Linky

Thanks to the Number Bundle for sending us an activity box to review. This post contains a supported link

An InLinkz Link-up