Caden's enthusiasm for practising his writing and drawing (mostly dragons) remains high. Here is a Fire Dragon he drew and labelled.
We went to visit their friends for a weekly play date, the boys are all here under the table in their 'den'.
Miles loves wearing his new personalised birthday T shirt. The boys are here doing a giant drawing on the floor.
Some of Caden's writing and some more dragons. Miles covered his end with scribbles. I am glad he is showing an interest in drawing and enjoys it.
I took the boys to a drama workshop. It was meant to be entitled 'Rudolph the blue nosed reindeer' but when we got there it was about a girl who saves some fairies. Even I groaned inwardly at the storyline. It was a poor choice of story for my two boys, though the girls in the group loved it. I almost certainly wouldn't have taken them if I had known. I know from experience in the past that despite wanting to avoid over exposing them to typically only boy things, they just aren't interested in girly stuff that much. Boys and girls are different generally in their interests. Caden showed some interest in the physical games, there was a good game where the fairies sat in the middle of a parachute and everyone would wrap them up in the canvas and then pull it outwards which spun the fairies round. There were a couple of other running about games that Caden liked. Miles was having none of it. He really didn't like it at all. Now I know... I won't be darkening the door of another drama group, I am very happy to say. It is just horribly hard work when they don't want to be there and are completely not interested.
We went to the playground afterwards. Caden has learned to swing himself, Yay!! He did really well. I anticipate a Summer ahead where I will only be needing to push one little boy and not too. He loved it, as you can see.
Then we came home and made festive stocking biscuits and gingerbread men. Miles wanted to do the mixing and cutting and the hands on stuff. Caden only wanted to read. He learned a few new words like sachet and decorate and we went over the different units of temperature measurement, Farenheit and Celsius. His reading ability continues to astound me (umm, excuse the mess, there isn't much space for home baking in a tiny kitchen like this).
Miles cuts the festive stocking biscuits, with a little help.
There have been a few excellent questions this week that I wanted to chase up. One was 'What happens if you go faster than the speed of light?' and the other was 'What is the cutest baby animal?'. Of course, each is equally important haha. We took on the speed of light question through Google and after showing Caden the electromagnetic spectrum so that he could understand waves first, I thought it would be better to go way back and start with basic physics. I have heard of the Khan Academy before but not really ever used them. So I signed us up and I am blown away by the extent of this highly acclaimed resource. It is AMAZING! Here is a link for anyone who doesn't know about it.
It is a free site with a progress tracker (when you sign up) and information on all aspects of science, with tutorial videos; Art; Maths and IT. I noticed there was a basic programming course for anyone who wants to do it. Caden will be learning some basic coding in the next few months. It is really encouraging to find this at a stage where Caden and Miles are just starting to be interested enough and developed enough to grasp some of the concepts. We will be visiting this site regularly now as part of our weekly routine.
The cookies were tasty so we scoffed a couple while Miles went off to play and Caden and I watched a tutorial entitled 'An introduction to light'. It talked about the basics of waves, photons, the electromagnetic spectrum and refraction, which he knows about from chats about the rainbow and sunlight. Caden really loved hearing that the light from the sun takes over 7 minutes to reach us and that the light from the stars in the sky takes much longer to reach us than that. He said he thought it was really weird. Also weird that some insects can see UV and IR wavelengths and dogs only see in shades of grey. We also tried to get an understanding of how fast the speed of light it, it is pretty inconceivable. The narrator on Khan academy said 3 x 10 (to the power of 8)m per second, 300 million metres per second. Caden was really blown away by this. I love seeing him find science ideas fascinating. We also did a bit of basic maths, to assess his level for the maths program they provide. We plan to be back on the Conquer Maths programme from January so this is a great infill for now.
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