A few weeks ago
Our day started with a question
Can we make a rainbow, Mummy?
We talked about how rainbows are made
We remembered rainbow days
Rainbow weather
And we blew rainbow bubbles
The bubbles reminded me of a book I had been given
For our Rainbow Baby, Bea
We read the book together
Before beginning some rainbow play
We started our day with Play Doh
We looked at all the different colours
Bea is just beginning to learn colour names at the moment
So she enjoyed shouting them out
We used the Play Doh to make
Patterns and pictures
People and things
Mr Play Doh head was a wonderful success
Then we decided to experiment with mixing colours
To make new
This involved lots of discussion
Predictions and observations
We made lots of new colours
And we made a rainbow too!
Esther made a fabulous rainbow caterpillar
William made one too
On his computer
In Scratch
And then programmed it to move
Bea wanted to read the Baby Bubbles book again
As we read it through
It gave us our second question for the day
Can we make rainbows in puddles?
Can we make rainbow water and bubbles?
And the answer?
With some food colouring
And some powder paint
Yes we can!
We filled our water tables
With water and washing up liquid
We stirred up a foamy froth
Then sprinkled on powder paints
In lots of different colours
Rainbow colours
We stirred and mixed
And made rainbow bubbles
As the powder colours sank
The bubbles turned white again
And we had made wonderful rainbow water
Esther, William and Bea
Played with the water for hours
And through their play
They learned so much
Watching them was like watching a well differentiated maths lesson
Only it happened naturally
Bea was mastering full and empty
Esther was exploring equal measures
And William was measuring in litres and millilitres
All learning
All making progress in their learning
All evidenced
Through play!
And do you know what we did
After all this learning?
We splashed in the rainbow puddles
Rainbow puddles we had made
And we had a wonderful, wonderful time
I am so very excited that we are now officially
A home educating family
So more of our days
Can be filled with rainbows like these
More of our learning
Will look like this
That looks amazing and this is so very obviously what you are meant to have done.
I’m sure you’re already aware of it but you can sign up to a scheme called Educational Freedom which gives you discounted entry prices into lots of attractions all over the uk during term time, so that your children don’t have to miss out on “school trips”.
What a wonderful post and it looks like you had so much fun Jennie! Congratulations on becoming fully fledged home educators <3
I’m so happy you are doing this Jennie, it seems to right. Mich x
Thank you x I hope that we can make it work x