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I’d like to start with a question: could ‘I’d like to talk about sheep’ ever be a self-referential sentence? The answer is: Maybe! This is a post...

Intro to Functions Skip to the next section if you already know about functions. In maths, a function is an equation, for example '2x+1'. The thing...

A few days ago I made a post on fractals and said I would continue it. Well, this is that continuation. This post is about the Mandelbrot variants...

These are some fractals I have been working on recently. I’ve been very interested in fractals for at least a month; and I would like to show and...

Perfect Numbers are numbers that equal the sum of their factors divided by two. 6 is perfect, as its factors are 1, 2, 3 and 6; and (1+2+3+6)/2 = 6...

I learned / practiced / showed off my grammar skills today. Dad downloaded some grammar apps and said ‘If you learn everything here, then you’ll be a...

Today I did a games engine called Unity. I made a new project, in 3D, called Maze. It’s not a maze right now, just a weird abstract place where you...

Soto you do something to do with chemistry stay on Khan Academy tell me more about that because then it has protons in its nucleus and protons make a...

Toby has been practicing piano. He has been writing up the rules to Gate and thinking about conflicts and uncertainties in the game. He has also been...

Toby and I played a few games of his new game Gate. He also wrote up the rules to the game in Google docs. If I am organised, I’ll get the rules onto...

Toby played lots of piano, learning his 2nd grade 2 piece called Lesson in C. Toby has created a new game called Gate using the pyramid arcade game...

We started the day with Magnetic Polydron. Toby was exploring interesting tilings with equilateral triangles and hexagons, thinking about colour...

This morning Toby practised piano, he is working on the Disney Challenge on Simply Piano. He was very pleased as he got lots of awards for getting 3...

We started the day by doing an Oak National Academy maths year 9 lesson in the section Famous Maths Problems - The Painted Cube. Toby had already...

Today was our first official day home educating. - Toby did some piano practice in preparation for his piano lesson at 3.30pm - We set up the...

Recently I became obsessed with the Pyramid Arcade set, made by Looney Labs. At the end of the instruction manual (giving you rules for 22 games you...

This blog will be to document Toby’s HE learning, experiences and interests. It should help us see the progress Toby is making. I’m hoping that Toby...

Once upon a time… There was a computer designed to be the ultimate guardian for humanity. The reason that the human race needed such a guardian was that at the moment, there was an alien invasion. The sensors in the Galactic Radar telescope had picked up the spaceships. Some of them were slowing ...

Toby has been having a chess phase. We have got him a gold subscription to ChessKids. This allows Toby to do unlimited chess puzzles, listen to tutorial videos and play timed and untimed games. We usually say that Toby can do chess learning apps whenever he wants but currently it is all he would ...

Toby watched a VSauce showing an illusion where a 4 by 8 chocolate bar was cut into a few pieces and rearranged (still 4 by 8) but with a piece of the chocolate left over! It is a great illusion so we made it at home out of paper. Toby giving all the instructions! Toby performed the trick for Ch ...

Toby was very pleased to receive his half marathon band for having run 11 junior parkrun runs! He did really well to go up in front of all the other runners to collect his band and then smile and follow instructions for his photograph to go on the Harrow Lodge Junior Parkrun Facebook page afterw ...

Recently, Toby has been talking about Eve feeling much happier than he generally does. He feels that she has much more fun. His example is that she enjoys dancing around the kitchen more than he enjoys going to Kidspace (and Kidspace is his top activity!). As parents we feel that Toby does have ...

This morning Toby and I walked Eve to preschool. We then gave the soft play cafe in MyPlace a go. Toby had a nice 20 mins playing and chatting to the lady who worked there but it wasn't worth the money for Toby's age. Toby and I chatted about how we couldn't ask for money back and ...

We talked to Toby yesterday and he thought he was ready to go to Kidspace again and so did we! It is normally a tricky place for Toby as it is very stimulating and lots of brief encounters with other people. He did amazingly well and we had a great time! He and Eve stuck together and played toge ...

Toby did his 11th Junior Parkrun on Sunday, hopefully he'll be keen to do more and get his half marathon wrist band! He has been doing more programming, playing Spell Rift spelling app on the iPad, playing lots of Monopoly and Scrabble. We have been going to the playground and the woods :)

Here are a couple of Maths art examples. They combine ideas from Vi Hart and Numberphile.

Eve felt a bit poorly in the morning so she didn’t go into preschool. Instead we went for a long walk which finished by exploring the woods in the Manor. Toby and Eve had a great time climbing trees and running down the big hill. Looking beautiful with all the colourful leaves! We went straight ...

Toby had thought about mathematical patterns quite a lot today. He has come up with a set of instructions to follow given a set of numbers. Inspired by the Collatz conjecture, he is interested to see what patterns arise with different sets of numbers. Do they all end up in loops or terminate. We ...

Brilliant day at Barleylands for Eve’s reward day :) Lots of soft play, blast zone, bouncy pillow, assault course and a long time in the sand pit. Very cold day today but this didn’t seem to bother Toby and Eve at all! We looked at the birds, reptiles and mini beasts and had a look in the farm m ...

In the morning we walked with Eve to preschool then went to the skatepark, playground and street climbing. We walked home through the woods seeing interesting birds and funny ducks! Lots of Beaker. Programming, thinking about rotations and translations. We watched a great course about Paradoxes ...

Toby watched Numberphile videos about factorials. Toby has been playing Letterpress. He started playing ChemCrafter which he hasn’t done in a while, leading to us reinstalling Beaker so that he could try different combinations of elements. He started thinking about Factorials from the videos ear ...

Toby read Murderous maths books, watched In a nutshell early videos. While Chris and Eve did Eve’s first official parkrun (woo), Toby and I walked to street climbing where we played ‘it’ followed by the playground where Chris and Eve met us. Toby read more! Toby played Letterpress. We watched In ...

Today we played a little bit of cards then got ready - Toby watched Numberphile videos. We walked Eve to preschool then popped to the shop where Toby got a sodoku puzzle book which he started doing straight away! We were on our way home when we got a call from preschool to say Eve’s tummy hurt s ...

Yesterday was great! In the morning Toby read the Body book initially because he wanted to learn about how long it takes from drinking to needing a wee. He then continued reading. We walked Eve to preschool and then caught the bus to Granny and Granddad’s flat. I talked to Toby about how he coul ...

This morning Toby made up a tune which included some of colour switch theme tune, he then used Notion on the iPad to create the song. Brilliant start! Toby then used Ancestry to include more family details. He played Letterpress Games, some with Aunty Maggy! He did lots of Johnny Grammar app - d ...

This morning Toby was trying to teach Eve to do additions and multiplications with Poker chips. He drew interesting maths drawings and illusions. Toby did a Maths EdPlace but got upset when he got 8 out of 10. Toby read Astrosaurs books on the way to Thetford. We went to the playground at Thetfo ...

This morning Toby and I played Polarity and card games. Toby did a Maths EdPlace. He started reading Terry Pratchett with Chris. He watched Numberphile videos. We went to Thames Chase and hired bikes for Toby and Jasmine while Eve rode her bike too. Toby got a trike and did fantastically, he per ...

Toby played Letterpress. He added more people to the family tree app, asking Jasmine about Linda’s family. We went out for a walk to the Manor and through the woods. Deer watching. At home we played Rummikub - Toby made up new rules but got upset when Jasmine won. He managed to handle it and tur ...

Lots of swimming with Luke mentoring. Poker with Jasmine and Luke

This morning we watched VSauce. Toby walked with me to take Eve to preschool. Afterwards we went exploring again! We had a great time and ended up walking for 2.5 hours! As we were walking along we took photos and Toby made up names so we entered both into notes. Once home Toby used the Frax app ...

This morning Toby watched VSauce. We went for a brilliant walk through the woods to the Manor. We went pretty much where Toby wanted to go. We walked for 90 minutes! We were checking google maps and Toby saw Weald Brook and wanted to find it so we did! Toby earned Frax Pro so he spent lots of ti ...

This morning Toby watched VSauce.We played lots of Poker!We watched Vi Hart and VSauce.Toby drew a numbers drawing.Toby and I went to the Manor and then went to collect Eve from preschool.

This morning Toby watched Ted Eds. He was upset that I'd let him sleep in after being awake for 4 hours in the night. We played Astronauts card game together. We then went to the Manor and had a great time exploring new places, investigating plants and mushrooms and running around. We watch ...

Toby watched Ted Eds this morning. We walked Eve to preschool then went to pick up a parcel then popped into Hilldene. Once home Toby did some factor samurai, we tried to do a bit of puzzle game. At lunch time we started watching Vi Hart. We had a great afternoon doing doodles and art crossed wi ...

This morning Toby watched Ted Eds. We went for a walk through the woods to the Manor then Toby and Chris ran to the end of the Manor and walked all the way back. We came back for lunch, Toby played chess on the iPad. He then played with a Science app. Toby and Eve played together nicely! Toby re ...

This morning we watched Chemistry Ted Eds. We discussed house buying and renting - we drew pictures and talked about terminology. Toby read a Secret Mummy book. We talked about a way to avoid aggression and came up with an idea of Toby earning Mimpi Dreams if he wasn't aggressive all day un ...

Today Toby woke very early, we played Tantrix first thing then Toby watched Ted Eds and played chess while we were getting ready. He decided to come to take Eve to preschool to get some steps. We briefly popped into the playground, it was damp and empty but Toby ran around on the climbing frame. ...

Toby watched lots of maths Ted Ed videos this morning. We did more Tantrix properties. We did some more Geometry drawing then Toby used Geogebra on the iPad. Toby played chess on the iPad, increasing his ELO. He also played actual chess with Chris! Toby and I went out for a long walk and explore ...

We started today with lots of Ted Eds about illnesses and disorders like heart attacks, heat stroke and HIV. Toby played chess on the iPad. He found losing to the computer difficult to handle but wasn't aggressive. We then played words games with the Nab It tiles. We then did Tantrix puzzle ...

This morning Toby played lots of piano then Chris took him out for a walk. He joined in with quite a bit of Eve's party. He did pass the parcel, pin the tail on the donkey, did happy birthday pictures and helped blow out Eve's candles :) He played Tantrix with Chris in the evening.

Toby watched Ted Eds this morning. Chris took Toby for a big walk over the Manor while Eve and I were at Baby Ballet. Toby read a bit of The Secret Mummy by Steve Cole. He played with the Chemical Reaction cards. And played some piano.

This morning we watched lots of Ted Eds and Numberphiles- Toby was particularly interested in dark matter. We played a Toby version of Cranium which Aunty Maggy had given to Toby. We played Poker - we looked up the rules to find out the order of hands and wrote them down. Toby handled it when he ...

Toby did a lot of swimming with Jasmine and Luke.

This morning Toby was interested in chemical reactions and sugar so we watched Ted Eds about those subjects! He was very keen to carry on his imaginary chemical potions game with Jasmine in the woods :) We went to Duck Wood first then took a path to get us to The Manor - which it did :) Toby did ...

This morning Toby watched Ted Eds. He played 12 app lots - good skills! We went out for a walk in the woods. Toby had a brilliant time playing with Jasmine - an imaginary game about potions and cures! They did lots of tree climbing too. Toby really didn't want to go out but then had a great ...

Fab day today at New Scientist Live! Toby visited a lot of stalls and tried out the demos including buildings great structures, making a DNA necklace, playing a brain wave game, doing a colour smell experiment, maths questions and lots more!

Toby was interested in learning about dreams this morning so we watched videos by ASAP science, Ted Ed and VSauce on Why we dream and Lucid dreams. Toby played the maths game 12 again, getting very good at mental arithmetic. He did lots of 12 throughout the day! We walked to get Eve from prescho ...

Toby and I played with the new sand in the tray and then tried water - looking at the ripples. Toby wanted to try more science experiments so we got the 2 long mirrors and tried to make infinite reflections and took photos and video. We then did lots of the Where's Wally book! Toby played t ...

Making interesting shapes out of the Reptangles and reading about symmetry and shapes in the instruction booklet. Playing lots and lots of piano using piano Maestro. Toby and Chris went to B&Q to buy some more plants for the new flower beds - got some beautiful painted ferns! Toby and Chris ...

Toby drew me a live picture with my name in the middle of a heart with decorative infinity symbols! Toby played the word swap app. Toby read Do you feel lucky? Murderous maths book. He asked me if I could whistle Turkish March and then wanted to practise it on the piano! We resubscribed to piano ...

Toby and I played Monopoly together, continuing the game we had started a couple of days ago. Toby won! We started a new game with a set of Toby rules! Toby and I played piano together. I am trying to learn too so that we can enjoy this activity together. We took turns! Toby played a game where ...

This morning Toby watched lots of Numberphile and In a Nutshell videos. Toby played Habitat game and 4D toys game where you explore shapes in higher dimensions. Toby read 39 storey treehouse book. We went to Bedfords park but it was busy and Toby was not in the best frame of mind and we had to l ...

This morning we watched In a Nutshell episodes. We got Toby a TouchPress subscription so Toby did lots of Sim Cell where he is trying to explore and investigate cells. He also did Sentence Sensibility a lot where you read lots and solve puzzles and create sentences. Finally, Habitactics where yo ...

We walked Eve to preschool then went to the bike rally area - Toby was running around and came up with a game where I controlled him with a set of commands. These involved movement, direction, speed, looking at objects of interest and studying them. He said it would be a VR game. He wondered whe ...

Toby woke very early and we listened to The BFG audio book. Toby drew a detailed picture of what he thought his soul would look like and the interconnections in the brain if there were one! We walked Eve to preschool and popped in to MyPlace to look at the progress of the soft play - it's n ...

This morning Toby was drawing fractals then looked at the new Fractal app he has. Toby and Chris worked on a Unity app to recreate the Knight Defense app that is no longer supported. They worked on the chess pieces and the ways they are shown in different situations in the game. Chris took Toby ...

This morning Toby watched Numberphile at breakfast time. We walked to take Eve to preschool then Toby suggested we catch the bus to Hornchurch street climbing. We bought a book from Barnados charity shop and some drinks then caught the bus. Toby read the legends book we'd bought on the bus. ...

This morning we watched VSauce while eating breakfast. We walked Eve to preschool then went to buy a couple of things from the shops. We enjoyed being on the bus home so stayed on for an extra stop. We saw some small woods so went exploring, while walking round we did some more nature hunting lo ...

Toby started writing a story about a girl called Jamie who goes to boarding school. On notes on the iPad. Toby used Gadget to try to create a song he had made up. Toby decided it was love day and he wanted to make a card for me. He asked Chris to take photos of him and Eve for the front of the c ...

We got ready quickly this morning. VSauce while eating breakfast. We went on our nature walk with the clipboard and recorded lots of information. We first saw an oak tree and examined the bark and leafs. We then saw the purple leaf tree - have to find out what it is! In the woods we saw moss, br ...

Toby was awake for a long time in the night so we left him to sleep in this morning so he didn't come with me to take Eve. Reading Father Christmas book - a comedy book about how it is possible for Father Christmas to deliver all the presents! We watched VSauce about time travel and a primi ...

Toby watched VSauce and Numberphiles. He was interested in Sandpiles and the Mandelbrot Set. Toby was working on a puzzle game, made in AudioShare. It is a really original and creative idea using the app in this way. He recorded clues and explainations into audio files then made lots of folders ...

Toby did lots more on the Isometric app - creating tesselations, Escher designs and impossible shapes. He again shares them with Chris and I. Toby played on the piano using Dust Busters. He also did some creations on Notion. He did pull ups on the door bar and thought about exercise plans. We al ...

Toby woke v early this morning and read lots of Godel, Escher, Bach. Toby watched VSauce and Vi Hart while getting ready. We walked Eve to preschool then went to skatepark and street climbing. After popping to the shops and coming back on the bus, Toby read the Illusions book. We then did Kineti ...

Today Toby watched VSauce, Vi Hart and In a nutshell. We went in the garden and played with the building blocks and discussed materials roofs are made of and why. We played gravity maze. We started a Love card for Nannie Toni. Toby drew a maze and then started thinking about Godël, Escher, Bach ...

Toby watched Vi Hart at breakfast time. He then read 91 storey treehouse in the car. We went to try out the new street climbing in Harrow Lodge park. It was great fun and Toby says it is even better than the one in Central Park! We then walked to the playground and back for some more street clim ...

Toby watched Vi Hart today. He read Math puzzle book then How to train your dragon and 91-storey treehouse. We went to Nannie Toni's house in Waltham Abbey. We went to the playground and had some fun but then it started raining A LOT! We got back and got dried off! Toby asked Nannie Toni so ...

Today Toby watched a few VSauce videos and asked good questions. He played lots of piano using the Dust Buster app, even when he wasn't doing well in the tournament, he persevered :) We played Scrabble again. Toby and I built electronic circuits with Hot Wires. He was trying out alternative ...

We watched VSauce at breakfast time. We walked Eve to preschool and then went to the playground after. Toby was feeling a bit sad about losing Geometry Dash and lack of sleep. At home, we did maths from the open university course book. Toby did well solving the equation by multiplying out the br ...

Toby was asking Eve difficult maths questions. I explained that she didn't know numbers past 40 so would not be able to answer. Toby decided to make a maths game for Eve - we cut out squares of card and Toby wrote digits on them and some mathematical operations so that we could show Eve all ...

In the morning we drove to Brighton (Toby read How to train your dragon and Phantom X murderous maths books on the journeys).As soon as we got there we found a great playground.We walked up to the pier and walked along it.We went into the arcades but Toby didn't want to do the 2p machines. ...

Today was our last day at the caravan.Ben recommended a walk from Cuckmere Inn along the Cuckmere river to the beach where the river meets the sea. From the beach we walked up the hill to some amazing views.Toby enjoyed this walk a lot and the stony beach with different kinds of stone from the c ...

We got ready and drove down to South Downs to stay in a caravan for a couple of days.Toby read How to train your dragon for most of the way.We went to Bodiam castle in the afternoon. It was fantastic! Built over 600 years ago, it is now maintained by the National Trust. We walked around it and w ...

Early on today, Toby watched VSauce and played lots of piano. He wrote more on his Infinite Woods story.He read lots of How to seize a dragon's jewel.We went to Chris's family party - it went really well. Toby played running and 'had' games in the garden with the other childr ...

This morning we walked Eve to preschool then went to get a few bits from the shops.Once home Toby played lots of piano - lovely to hear him play again :)We walked to collect Eve and went to the playground and street climbing afterwards.Toby sang a song about a tower falling down - inspired by Pe ...

Today we had a great day with Aimee and Erin over.We walked through the Manor to get to the playground and were super lucky to see lots of deer. Everyone was very quiet while we followed them through the woods :)Once at the playground we did street climbing then lots of playing at the playground ...

Toby has played lots of piano today! He played for at least 1 hour and 45 mins! He has remember so much from before and was improving even from the start of the day - brilliant :)We went to collect Eve from preschool and then went to the playground in the spitting rain! Both Toby and Eve wanted ...

Toby had been awake a lot in the night but was very happy this morning!So far he has read Silly book of side splitting stuff and played some digital piano.We walked Eve to preschool and then went to the skatepark and playground!Once home Toby did a Maths EdPlace then we tried out the symbolic ca ...

I built this. What I was doing First, I was outside in the garden. No socks! I walked on to the intersection of patio and grass, then on to grass, then onto the slide, frictioned my way up, lowered myself on to the Bike, on to the seat of the Dangerous Trike, onto the underside of the overside o ...

Toby has done lots of bits and pieces today!We watched Vi Hart at breakfast time.He read Silly book of side splitting stuff and told us some of the jokes. He was inspired by the book to make his own joke - Arc-hitecture which he wrote a blog post about.Auntie Barbara, Uncle Mick, Auntie Jennifer ...

We had a brilliant day today! We went to Adventure Island with Aimee, Erin as Tracey.Toby watched some Vi Hart on the number patterns we find in plants this morning and then read How to train a dragon and Silly book of weird and wacky words on the journey there and back.Once there we went on ton ...

Discussing logarithms and how they work. We were discussing that the bases 10, 2 and natural are most common but that you can have any base. Toby was asking me log questions and then talking about answers. I think he is starting to understand how they are related to powers.Watched Vi Hart - Bina ...

Toby and I used the Family Tree that Uncle Tony sent us (that they had researched years ago). We used it to fill in lots of the details on ours. Lots more to do and Toby is looking forward to asking Grandad questions when he comes over on Tuesday.We watched Ted Eds about whether teleports are po ...

This morning Toby read lots of How to train your dragon and later Silly book of side splitting stuff.He was reading he Editor Guide and creating a new level in Geometry Dash - he explained how different components worked. We had a bit of difficulty around writing a blog post around his new level ...

Another amazing day!Toby woke early again. He did some JavaScript programming - interested in scaling and gradients.Toby read the last (very long) How to train your dragon book on the way there.At Highlodge, Toby and Eve played on the playground. Climbing frames, obstacle course, swings, etc. Th ...

We went to High Lodge to deliver Jasmine to Margret and when we were on the triangular prism (or rather, Eve and Luke were), then Eve invented a game called Horrible Cakes.Then, I came along and it had just started; Eve was feeding Luke multiple multiples of mud cakes. Then I gave Luke a lava ca ...

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 soft play - Toby found all of t ...

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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 your dragon book.He ate new ...

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, &q ...

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 then watched another show abou ...

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 ...

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 tag with a boy there :)At hom ...

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 carried on reading How to t ...

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 have. He was okay, he ...

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 Toby was calcul ...

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 there. Toby chatted and played ...

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 on the big swing togethe ...

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 correct order and collect th ...

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 of exploring!Toby talked to ...

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 work in a maths workbook. He w ...

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 Eve about tessellations. Doi ...

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 home from the playground the ...

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 for us.Toby drew a solar syst ...

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.

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.

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+ tests, Toby got all the mat ...

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 lots and tried out some footb ...

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. Toby was pretty brave as he fou ...

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 played really well with a g ...

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 had a great time playing to ...

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 next door!A ...

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 also did MathFactor and Toby th ...

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 the drawing table.We went t ...

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 then going to the playgroun ...

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 older boy called George. They ...

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 moment.Walked to collect E ...

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 started reading on the bus journey ...

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 Quarks with lots of humour - he p ...

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 with Jude and Eve. He cl ...

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 sessions to get hi ...

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 and octagonal paper and Toby ...

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 Mental Maths app for 10-11 y ...

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 the waiting room for the doc ...

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 this was the case and Toby comp ...

This morning Toby was reading 26-storey treehouse. We walked to go running at the Manor but as soon as we started running on the gravel Toby fell over and cut both knees, elbow, hip and ribs! Poor Toby! He screamed and found it hard to calm down, we walked back (Chris ran to get the car) most of ...

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 Eve then walked back through ...

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 GP to make appt - Toby was v ...

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 the traini ...

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 exploring. We took pic ...

Today I went to 5P approach parent training while Chris looked after Toby and Eve. Walked to preschool to drop Eve off. Went to street climbing to look at fire damage. Toby ended up staying and climbing :) Played in the garden, building a high seat from the blocks. Talked about how to maintain t ...

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. We were talking first about ...

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 to the playground near ...

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 to the Superhero disco. It ...

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 be interesting to see if the ...

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 and mammals as a subty ...

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  Binary in google spreadsheet ...

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 ed place - English irregular ...

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 Eve to preschool and walked b ...

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 9th parkrun :) He did Ge ...

Coding! Doing a bit of Unity with Chris - coming up with a game idea and starting the first stages of implementing it. We need to make sure we allocate time for this. Reading books on Epic! App on iPad. K'nex - making even bigger, more stable super x. Reading Dragon Red Watching Numberphile ...

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 down to quarks! He labell ...

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 hair looks lovely! Codi ...

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 - racing against the timer to ...

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 Astrosaurs Academy together Talk ...

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 Country Park close by which was ...

We got ready quickly this morning so we'd get to Junior Parkrun on time. Toby read Invisible Inc on the way to the park. Toby ran really well and didn't walk at all. He said that his legs were listening and raptors were giving him boosters! This was his 8th junior parkrun and he beat h ...

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 climbing  Watching VSauce - ...

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 Went to the woods - Toby ...

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 first time to go on the Sky ...

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. Jasmine got them back and it ...

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 golf course. Went on the tra ...

Lots of reading on the way to Norfolk. Astrosaurs Academy mainly. Writing me Maths Roman numeral questions in Notes! Went in the garden for a bit and went on the trampoline and swing. Went swimming for ages - great fun!  Reading more Astrosaurs when we got in. Playing word Tetris with me. M ...

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 the train set with Eve. ...

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 with the hose in the garden ...

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. Again a very challenging sess ...

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 - brilliant :) Walked home Did Num ...

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 and the ending hor ...

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 - watching videos on Light, Sound an ...

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 playground.  Stree ...

We all had a great time today while Mummy was in London, fortunately she had a great time too! The highlight was Toby going from barely able to ride to doing 20 laps of the patio.

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 Toby loved getting ...

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 number sequences Playing wit ...

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 well to her questions a ...

Walked back from taking Eve to preschool.  Went to playground and skatepark Math factor- square number patterns Spreadsheets English - choosing the best adjective and identifying the verbs in sentences Walking to collect Eve, coming straight back on bus because I was visiting Clockhouse Sch ...

Toby read Astrosaurs - Sun Snatchers first thing this morning. It was so rainy that Chris took Eve to preschool on his way to work. Mike and John were here doing work around the house which was noisy and distracting so Toby did well to do work. We did a Math Factor session working out whether a ...

Toby and Eve scooted on the way to take Eve to preschool. We went to the skatepark and playground before coming home. Toby played with Beaker to make exciting reactions - bromine and aluminium was good! We did a Magnets worksheet on Ed Place which resulted in Toby getting a gold topic badge. We ...

Toby earned an Astrosaurs book and started reading it this morning. We went to Junior Parkrun - Toby wasn't his normal self and messed around at the finish line. It turned out that he had a tummy ache and we think that he didn't explain this or didn't realise. After the parkrun we ...

This morning Toby played with the chemical reaction cards first thing. He and Eve then played with the fraction blocks together. Toby did dominoes for ages. He made towers, obstacles, patterns and rallies. Toby and Eve did stuffitystuff then tidied up. He helped Chris build the new ikea bed that ...

Watched VSauceWatched Mandelbrot set Numberphile Watched Sandpiles Scooted and ran to take Eve to preschool (holiday club) Went to the playground and street climbing Amazing muscle man! :) Math Factor - dividing large numbers by 10s, 100s and 1000s Math factor - rounding decimals and large numbe ...

Toby read Aliens Stink book all the way to Highlodge. Once there he did brilliant, enthusiastic hellos! He spotted a huge inflatable slide, he asked to have a go - it turned out to be quite hard work to get up to the top through soft play mesh. He did well getting up and sliding down twice. We w ...

We walked Eve to preschool then went to playground followed by street climbing. Toby said he was tired (unusually) so we got the bus home. We did quite a bit of math factor - we watched Algebra - order of operations videos. It was brilliant because as I was trying to explain subtraction in algeb ...

Today we went to Uncle Stephen's house in Loughton. He is looking after his Grandchildren for the half term holidays. William is 9 and Maya is almost 4. We all played in the garden for a while then went for a long walk in the forest - balancing on logs and climbing. Toby and William were to ...

At breakfast time Toby watched VSauce Brachistrochrone. Toby then used Swift playgrounds to experiment with the code that creates different kinds of curves. He was drawing comparisons between the VSauce and the code. This morning we went to the woods, Toby and Eve had a fab time exploring as usu ...

We started off the day with Junior Parkrun, Eve and Chris ran together and I ran with Toby. Toby did really well - keeping a good pace all the way round :) He got a personal best of 11 mins 3 secs - go Toby! Tracey, Dave, Aimee and Erin, Julie, Luke, Hayley and Mia, Nannie Toni and Kevin, Granny ...

Toby did lots of reading Astrosaurs today and then read a Secret Agent Mummy book I got from the library. He and Chris made crispy kale with lots of spices. He was really interested in using the new salad spinner and getting the right amount of spices. He was really pleased when the kale was rea ...

Today we took Eve to preschool then Toby and I went to the skatepark and the playground but had to come home for the shopping to arrive. At home we did some math factor - Toby's times tables have definitely improved since using Math Factor. He knows lots off by heart and can work out the ot ...

This morning Toby finished the Stop those monsters book. Toby scooted to take Eve to preschool and walked back. We went straight to visit Dycorts School. It was a quick visit as unfortunately it appears that Dycorts is not a suitable environment. We went home and did a Math Factor grand genius t ...

Today Toby read Stop those monsters at breakfast time and then again in the afternoon and almost finished it before bedtime! He and Eve did Hama Beads - both finishing another design. They played Stuffitystuff together. Toby did more on his Periodic Table puzzle - he is aboit 2/3s of the way thr ...

Toby watched VSauce on Spinning at breakfast time. We did a bit of Math Factor together. Watched a couple of videos on Storytelling from Pixar in a Box. Hoping to continue this as good stuff for English. Reading Secret Agent Mummy - finished it! Did some more Hama Beads. Walked to get Eve from t ...

Eve's preschool was closed today so we were a bit out of normal routine. After taking ages to get ready, we went for a walk through the woods - Toby and Eve had a great time exploring. We went to the playground and street climbing. Eve was not her usual bouncy self as we walked home through ...

This morning we went to Junior Parkrun - this was Toby's 5th run! Both Toby and Eve did really well! Afterwards we did a big walk and went to the playground - Toby and Eve were brilliant together, climbing, running after each other and adapting to each other :) Toby read Mummy, Steve Cole b ...

Watching VSauce Reading Astrosaurs- lots and lots! Playing Dominoes with the 12 spot dominoes Playing in the garden Building Geomag More reading Astrosaurs  1 practise and 1 game on Math Factor

Reading See Underground Watching VSauce Walking to take Eve to preschool and straight back because of the rain Math Factor - lots and lots! Algebra - inverse operations, signs. 3 times table. Warm ups.  Reading Astrosaurs Walking to get Eve and coming back via the playground where both Toby ...

Busy day today, we walked and scooted to drop Eve off at preschool then had to come straight back as Gill Cockram from CAD team was coming to visit at 9.30am.  When she was round we played Frustration, matching game, Hot Wires and then read some Astrosaurs. Toby got a bit stressed out as it ...

Watching Ted Eds Walking Eve to preschool and coming back via skatepark, playground and then quick pop into shops English - talking about fiction and non-fiction then figurative language including onomatopoeia, alliteration and assonance. Toby enjoyed discussing and trying out the different form ...

Reading Astrosaurs Walking to take Eve to preschool Walking back after going to the skatepark and playground Reading Astrosaurs again! Doing math factor - did 2 practices and some games. The practices were on subtracting numbers to make negative numbers and on less than, greater than and equal t ...

Watching VSauce Walking Eve to preschool and back Monopoly - continuing game Solving linear equations on math factor - started off well but Toby found this challenging. He understands the rules about balancing equations and I think he has the ability but he doesn't like writing down his wor ...

We got ready fast, Toby watched VSauce as we were getting ready. He read Astrosaurs on the way to parkrun. He ran really well with Chris then came back to cheer Eve to the finish line afterwards :) Toby got a personal best - not that he is fussed about that! Afterwards we had a beautiful walk th ...

This morning Toby was really good while I was giving Eve a bath as she had been sick in the night. He read the rest of the Geography Quest book and an interesting maze story book. He watched VSauce and Vi Hart while we ate breakfast. He read Astrosaurs in the car on the way to Tracey's. I h ...

Watching Vi Hart and VSauce Reading Geography Quest Walking to take Eve and back via shops Monopoly - played for over an hour! Lots of calculating with money Walking to get Eve and back Watching Vi Hart and VSauce Reading Geography Quest book VSauce Math factor - 3 sessions completed Geomag

Vi Hart and Topology videos Walk Eve to preschool Skatepark  Playground- imaginary play involving the periodic table and working out 2 to the power of (doubling chain). Walked home doing addition with drain game Monopoly - some Toby rules! Word Tetris together - Toby was being very nice to ...

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Playing top trumps Math factor - grand genius test and games on addition with numbers up to 100. Watched videos on algebra on there - loved the not equals sign :) Watched In a nutshell on history of early humans Walked Eve to preschool Went to library (even though the library is a difficult plac ...

Walking to preschool and back Skatepark Playground Street climbing  Imaginary play at skatepark Discussing the immune system - impressive knowledge from in a nutshell videos. T cells, B cells, macrophages, natural killer cells, dendritic cells and their functions in a cytokines storm Math f ...

Thing explainer Working out cube numbers up to 1000 on walk Walk to preschool Skatepark Thing explainer - really enjoying this, great because I love it too Math factor for almost an hour - fractions and 10 and 5 times tables.  Scooting to get Eve Skatepark Playground Street climbing Magnet ...

Ted Eds and In a nutshell while eating breakfast. Parkrun for the 3rd time, it was a bit chillier and had been drizzly - Toby was a bit reluctant but then did really well and ran well the entire way! Eve also did brilliantly and ran nearly the whole way this time :) After a quick rest, drink and ...

Today Toby watched Ted Eds at breakfast time. He played with wedgits. Read Science and maths Quest books and later read Phantom X. Did 15 mins of maths workbook. At lunchtime Toby watched lots of In a nutshell episodes. Then Toby and Chris went for a run over the manor. Toby wanted to run all th ...

This morning we walked to take Eve to preschool and then went to the skatepark. Toby then scooted home. As we were close to home, Toby came up with a poem which he recorded with the audio recorder. He then wrote it on a piece of yellow card, taking care over the style and presentation. He would ...

To step from one peg to another, you have to change at least one thing (you can't go from red, purple or green to yellow or blue.(start: red in corner (if there is not red in a corner then the level isn't finished or not right), end: green.)) Purples are portals in Level 2 or higher. L ...

Toby started today with another tooth falling out - it came out in his bran flakes! That's the 4 front ones out now :) He watched Ted Eds while eating breakfast. We walked Eve to preschool then went to the skatepark, playground and street climbing. Toby scooted home - great listening and no ...

Toby and Eve did painting this morning - Toby did a 'Strange' painting! We went to the skatepark, did a lot of walking to drop application forms for Eve at Mead and go to shops. Toby did lots of scooting. Toby wasn't sure whether he knew his way home from the shops so we gave it a ...

Toby had the opticians in the morning, it was a new opticians and so we prepared him before going. He did really well :) Toby did lots of wedgits again today! Chris's Dad and Dawn popped over in the morning to pick up Jonathan's present - Toby coped well with this and did hellos and go ...

In the morning we went to junior parkrun again. Toby did really well and ran the whole thing again :) Eve walked and ran around the whole course too this time! We came home and got ready then went to Hayley's 6th birthday party. Toby can find parties quite difficult and he did really well. ...

On Saturday morning, I was out at parkrun and shopping so Chris got Toby to do lots of exercises - squats, running, pull up bar. Toby did lots of building with the wedgits - his first ones were fantastic looking but balanced so kept getting knocked over. Toby really started to get the hang of we ...

Lots of wedgits today. Toby has really got the hang of wedging the blocks together now and he built lots of amazing things! This photo also shows that he lost one of the top front teeth today too! I love this photo! He did lots of reading of Do you feel lucky? and later on Guaranteed to mash you ...

I had been awake with Eve quite a lot in the night as she was poorly, Toby woke quite early but understood I was tired so I dozed while he read Charlie and the Chocolate factory for 45 mins! He then did some spreadsheets, he was looking to see if Nannie Toni had made any changes yet. He then did ...

We walked to and from preschool to drop Eve off. I thought our appointment at Dycorts was today but it is not till next month! Toby didn't mind the change of plan at all! Toby did some work in the age 10-11 maths workbook on lines of symmetry and reflections. He also tried to do an exercise ...

Toby decided this morning that he would go the entire day without the video camera which is a huge step. He did it to get VIP on Jurassic World as a reward and he managed it - he said a few times that he was getting the missing feeling and we mustn't give in to it because it could turn into ...

Today I went to visit Woodcroft School in Loughton to see if would be suitable for Toby. While I was visiting, Chris took Toby and Eve to Uncle Stephen's house and took their dog Duke for a walk over the forest. I met them in the forest after the visit. We walked back to their house, had lu ...

This morning Toby did Junior Parkrun at Harrow Lodge Park for the first time. Chris and Toby ran it together, Toby didn't stop and did really well! He seems keen on doing it again! Afterwards we went to the playground there - they had some great climbing frames and ropes. Both Toby and Eve ...

This morning we took Eve to preschool then went to the skatepark, playground and street climbing - Toby had a great time and listened well to instructions. We walked home then I wrote out 5 subtractions of increasing difficulty (in the hundreds), followed by 5 multiplications (up to 100) of incr ...

Today we went to do some shopping to get Chris's birthday presents. Toby was really good in the shops, we ended up spending ages in decathlon and got Toby and Eve a badminton set as well as running stuff for me, rackets for both and trainers and other bits for Chris! Toby read the science Q ...

Walked to take Eve to preschool Went to the playground - skatepark, playground, street climbing. We were there for 2 hours and had a great time :) Toby was using Eve's scooter to the shops and (mostly) listening to my instructions! Went into a couple of shops - helped to choose some birthda ...

Chris dropped Toby off to me at the park after I had been to view a school. We spent almost 2 hours there - it was brilliant :) Toby did lots of street climbing, swinging, spinning on the zip wire, playing a game on the wooden platforms with me and interacting beautifully with a preschooler on t ...

Gill Cockram came to visit Toby today. We had prepared Toby for the visit and it went very well :) We played with the domino sets and had a proper game. We then did Lego communication therapy which was interesting and Toby accepted the rules well. Toby then showed Gill some circuits with Hot Wir ...

This morning Toby came with me to take Eve to preschool. We then went to the skatepark where Toby ran around lots and tried to play with a younger boy too :) We then went to the playground and street climbing. I then said we had to come home because I was very cold - Toby would have stayed out l ...

Today was a stay at home day! Toby played lots of keyboard today, it's really great to hear him playing again. He is using the Synthesia app on the laptop plugged into the keyboard. He kept choosing to go upstairs to play! We spent quite a lot of time in the garden. While I was mowing, Toby ...

We went to Colchester this morning, Toby mainly watched Ted Eds on the way there. Once there, we all played on the playground for ages. Toby then had his lunch in the car with Chris while we had a picnic outside. We then went out onto the field with scooters and garden toys. Toby had a fantastic ...

Chris and Toby spent the morning together, they did some music playing together using the keyboard attached to the laptop. Followed by woodwork doing Roman numerals again in the garden. Toby did some of the activities in the illusions sticker book that he got for Easter. We went to Chris's ...

This morning Toby spent at hour doing the puzzle book that Aunty Jennifer got him for Easter. He was asking for help where he needed it which was great. This book is unusual in that you need to read the text carefully to find the clues and the solutions are often creative. I needed to pop to Tes ...

We went to Norfolk on Tuesday and got back late on Thursday evening. Toby really enjoys going to visit Aunty Maggy, Aunty Linda, Jasmine and Luke and this time was just the same. On the car journeys Toby did lots of reading  (mainly maths) and watching Ted Eds on a wide variety of subjects. ...

A relaxed day, Toby and Eve played together really well today. They shared stacking cups, fought monsters together, played with k'nex, did stuffity stuff and made houses out of washing baskets! Toby and Eve spent ages playing with play doh. Toby completed more of the butterfly sticker book. ...

Jasmine left this morning but before she did, we went to Sunday morning special needs trampolining session first the first time since Toby's behaviour started getting more difficult to handle about 4 months ago. It was overall a really good session - woo! I needed to do some Easter egg shop ...

Today was another great day, we went to Tropical Wings with Jasmine. Toby and Eve played beautifully together in the soft play area - making up games and chatting away. We spent ages in the butterfly area - we saw a butterfly emerging from its pupa and both Toby and Eve got to hold newly hatched ...

We got ready and went to the playground. Toby wanted to go to the little playground next to Harold Court School and Eve had mentioned this too so off we went! They had a great time especially with Jasmine chasing them and playing games :) Once at home Toby watched some Ted Eds and VSauce.  ...

An absolutely amazing day - we went to Adventure Island in Southend with Jasmine, Aunty Maggy and Aunty Tracy. It was such a brilliant day! We got there when it opened and stayed till after 4pm. It turns out that Toby loves fast rides and rollercoasters! He went on all the blue band rides and Ra ...

We walked to take Eve to preschool then went to skatepark and playground - a little bit wet from morning rain but still fun :) Toby watched Ted Eds and In a nutshell at home. We walked to collect Eve then went to the playground, climbing area and the woods. It was fantastic to see Toby and Eve p ...

Toby and I went to Romford this morning to get Toby's feet measured - up half a size and still an impressive H+ width! Toby was fine, we bought him a new pair of sandal/shoes then some summer t-shirts.  We walked to collect Eve from preschool. Once home Toby and Eve played in the garde ...

Reading Murderous Maths. Reading Astrosaurs Little bit of Set game Having a bath and hair wash - he got a (He-man) reward as he felt baths should only be in the evening! Looking how many reflections he and Eve could get in 2 long length mirrors Walking to the dentist with Eve and me :) Going in ...

Toby played with duplo this morning and read an easy readers X-men book. We started building a robot that Toby got for Christmas. Toby started looking in the mirror, he asked for the other mirror and was experimenting with how many Toby's he could see then looking at angles that both of us ...

This morning Toby and I watched lots of Ted Ed's about grammar and the English language. We then walked to the skatepark and Toby spent 30 mins running around and having a great time :) We picked up Eve and got the bus home. At lunch time Toby watched some Science videos. After lunch Toby a ...

Reading Chemical Chaos Watching Science videos Arranging all the Set game cards and playing a game where cards were swapped out of order and we had to figure out which ones to get the pattern back again  Reading Chemical Chaos Reading Awesome Arithmetricks

Playing set game and then a Toby version of set game which combines finding sets with memory game! Reading Chemical Chaos - only for a minute but good he picked up the book! Walking to get Eve from preschool Going to the skatepark for 10 mins - lots of running Watching Science and maths videos p ...

Epic book - listening and reading along Over skatepark, playground and climbing frame Walking home  Watching Science videos again - mainly ones about the immune system and how infections work Looking at an atlas for a few mins - talking about the oceans Bit of maths on Khan Academy but put ...

Went out in garden, climbing on climbing frame Opened cooking science kit. Read safety instructions and explored all the equipment that came with it Did an experiment with flour, water and yeast to watch the mixture rising and comparing to a flour and water mixture Decorating an envelope for Aim ...

I haven't posted for a week but things have been getting better for Toby :) Although he is still not keen on leaving the house and is still videoing everything but in terms of concentration and interests he is much better. He has been playing k'nex lots, doing memory pairs games, doing ...

So I am being less good with posting everyday but things are getting much better :) Toby is able to concentrate for longer and this is enabling him to play and enjoy many more activities. He is still getting the letters in his head which is making it difficult for him to read but he did manage a ...

I didn't do yesterday's post so I'll do 2 in 1. Both days have been a good! We have done lots of random spinner which Toby is still responding well to. We are trying to get Toby to Sit down and hold his knees when he is feeling cross. He is getting special points as rewards for pr ...

Positive day today :) Chris did lots of random spinner with Toby.  He did music creation, puzzle, mazes, writing, exercise - using the doorway bar for pull-ups, listening to stories on Epic.

I missed a couple of days! Things have mostly been good with some difficult bits. We are still doing house rules but they are less successful now as usually happens with behavioural methods. If he loses minutes then when it comes to iPad time, he can't handle it and it can trigger more chal ...

Today was another good day! Toby was responding well to the 'house rules' again. We played a bit of Scrabble together - Toby rules! Also did some Fibonacci numbers from different starting numbers. We watched lots of Numberphiles and VSauces  Toby agreed to come out for a walk arou ...

Brilliant day :) Other than recording everything Toby was like his normal self. Playing games and having fun - wooo! We were using House rules today which seem to help. Toby and Eve had great fun at the sink with water, cups and lots of food colouring! Nannie Toni came over and they played a Tob ...

Today was mostly a good day! Toby did colour mixing and painting this morning. Toby wrote some trap levels in a notebook. He watched lots of VSauce, a couple of Numberphiles and Ted Eds. He and Eve did imaginary play and stuffitystuff. Auntie Jennifer and Uncle Lee came over to spend some time w ...

Really brilliant morning, Tracey came over with Aimee and Erin. They were super understanding about Toby and videoing everything. They all did Hama beads and then played in the garden for ages - making potions and climbing around :) Toby has been really keen on the random chooser app which Chris ...

Today as soon as Toby woke up he wanted to play Monopoly so we did - it was nearly the normal rules too! He read some Dr Seuss and then I read some to him too. Toby had a very long bath and we were interested in how long it took for his wrinkles to disappear :) Toby spent a long time playing wit ...

Toby and Chris did lots of running in the living room while I was dropping Eve at preschool. While getting Toby ready we watched some new Ted Eds - interesting one about igloos and how they keep people warm. Toby and I played nearly normal Monopoly! Toby decided to go play in the garden today! : ...

A better day again today. There was some climbing dangerously around the house but Toby was much more able to activities. Toby played with the string/wool again in the morning. Once Eve was at preschool we played a Toby version of Monopoly - this involved creating new cards for different rules. ...

A better day again! This morning Toby and Eve were playing with the geometry set. He then read Disney Storybook Collection stories. He and Chris made a crown, I think inspired by the Frozen annual. He was happy to put it on Eve when she got back from preschool. Toby spent a long time tying a lon ...

Today was a better day with a couple of blips. This morning Toby played Tantrix first thing - he bought them down to breakfast. He watched some science videos - an interesting one about the power of ice. In the afternoon Nannie Toni and Kevin came over. Toby did text talk to Nannie Toni and then ...

I forgot to do yesterday's entry. Toby had a more difficult day again yesterday but he was still able to do more things. I tried to reflect on events that didn't go well with Toby by drawing pictures. This did help me to understand a little bit and draw Toby's attention to our agr ...

Today Toby did lots of activities that he has been unable to do recently because of the loss feeling! He played with Geomag this morning and k'nex this afternoon. He did some JavaScript programming before bedtime and even read some Astrosaurs before going to sleep! He has still been anxious ...

Today Toby has been doing lots of recording still but has been much calmer. He got more sleep last night which may have helped. His front tooth is very, very wobbly! We watched some VSauce earlier and Toby had a long bath! He and Eve did stuffitystuff together, in the afternoon, really nicely :) ...

Toby has found today a bit difficult.

Toby did lots of kitchen science today - it was brilliant :) He did oil and water - mixed them together and then looked how quickly they separated. He also looked at lemon juice, food colourings and the colourings they make together, glycerine.  Later on he did bicarbonate of soda and vineg ...

Maggy, Linda and Jasmine arrived at lunchtime. Both Toby and Eve are pleased to have their big cousin here to stay for a few days! Toby was quite difficult to engage in activities but he did do some Geomag with Aunty Maggy. He also played tickling games with Jasmine. He also spent some time play ...

We are continuing to reduce the amount of filing so had around 8 times of high aggression today, it seems to pass fairly quickly and even though the distress looks high we had continued as the results seem promising. We managed to complete the scarab today, I agreed to record it because I am try ...

Today Toby played a lot of emotion handling game If. He also built a house out of Duplo which he hasn't been interested in playing lately. He played a game of stuffitystuff really nicely with Eve - they were both v happy. Toby was tickling Eve by rubbing her sides! He watched some Numberphi ...

Today was another day with a lot of recording and videoing. However, Toby and I did play most of a game on Snakes and Ladders. And we spent 45 minutes reading a book about brains 'What goes on in my head' together and he interacted well with me and activities in the book. Toby also com ...

Toby sat with Chris while he was working watching what he was doing for a little while. Toby watched a film called Beyond Beyond which had a storyline all about loss. Toby made a film using the iPad involving blocks - it was a good use of recording :) Played If emotion handling game on the iPad. ...

Today we did some work on a version of a chess game where the pieces have a number of lives each. Toby came up with a great method with Velcro dots on the bottom of the pieces, the number of lives is written on the bottom of the Velcro so it can be changed. Unfortunately the pieces have velvet b ...

Toby and Chris were still in Norfolk until just after lunchtime. This morning Auntie Maggy read Brair Rabbit to Toby.  Chris played large Jenga blocks with Toby. Playing the actual game and then making towers and patterns. Toby did lots of running on the running machine. Toby and Chris walk ...

Today he found out that he really likes Hamsters, so much so that he said he is going to ask mummy if he can have one! Toby and Jasmine played for a long time making runs and mazes out of large Jenga blocks. He also loved the running machine, managed to run 1.5km at a top speed for 17km/h at ful ...

I didn't take notes today so this will only be a short one. Toby is still recording, videoing and taking many photos at the moment. Mostly this is not so positive but Chris made dinner this evening and Toby filmed what he was doing and discussed it for over 20 mins! It was great! Toby came ...

Walking to take Eve to preschool Reading some Astrosaurs Recording some poetry that he made up Lots of recording Going to collect Eve - running there and walking back. Gadget Playing a game with solar system cards - ordering the cards by order in the solar system Doing a bit of a word search wit ...

Lots of little bits of things today! Toby had an early GPs appointment this morning in which we discussed Toby's difficulties - particularly anxiety. The GP is referring us to CAMHS. Chris and Toby went to B&Q to buy some seeds while I had to get a few bits from Tesco. Toby chose some s ...

Today there has been reading Astrosaurs then taking Eve to baby ballet and tap and reading more Astrosaurs while there! Unfortunately Toby ran out of the class and Chris had to come and collect him. He read more Astrosaurs at home. He then watched Numberphiles and researching about fractals! He ...

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Today Toby mainly read Astrosaurs! This morning we walked Eve to preschool and back. We popped to Hilldene to get a few bits. Auntie Maggy called on FaceTime when we got back and talked to Toby about his anxieties and read a book called Quiet your Mind to him. The book does seem very relevant to ...

Writing lots of notes and recordings  Walking to take Eve to preschool Programming using Codea - thinking about how to draw windows in a house with a specifiable number of panes Spent a long time making a brilliant card for Aimee and Erin from me and Toby all about love! Doing a psychology ...

Finished reading Murderous Maths book Writing story and notes on the iPad Doing swift playgrounds programming on the iPad - following the tutorials and then adding to a rock, paper, scissors game. Toby did hour of code where he did the first few tasks Went to pick Eve up from Tracey's  ...

This morning we got ready and went to Tesco to get some bits for Tracey's birthday. Toby stayed in the car and read Murderous Maths. I also popped into the library and he continued reading. Once at home Toby scraped his arm and so we put a Magic School Bus on. We then went to Tracey's ...

Today Toby had done lots of writing stories and notes. He has watched lots of magic school bus, got excited about the Klein Bottle Numberphiles and watched more Magic School Bus! He walked Eve to and from preschool to take and collect her. He read Mean and Vulgar Bits. He did a bit of JS program ...

Toby woke at 5am this morning and spent the first 2 hours of the day writing stories, notes, maths and patterns. This morning we attempted to go swimming, after walking in the extremely cold weather to take Eve to preschool, but after a short time in the pool Toby got very anxious about not bein ...

VSauce Lots of Magic School Bus Numberphiles Reading Key to the Universe Writing a story on my phone Walking back from picking Eve up from preschool  More Numberphiles Writing maths based on the Numberphiles - thinking about number systems with different bases More Magic School Bus

Read Folk of the Faraway Tree Writing more on his story from last night Read Perfect Sausage maths book Came into the hospital for Eve's appt with the dietician - did well waiting both in the waiting room and in the appt Watching lots of VSauce Watching Numberphiles More VSauce Programming ...

Walked to and from preschool to take Eve Popped to the shops Watching Numberphiles  Writing down a function x**2 - 2 and trying to work out the result for many different values of x Read 80 pages of the Folk of the Faraway Tree  Went to pick up Eve from preschool and walked back Went t ...

Watching Ted Eds and VSauce Writing an email to Tracey about games for Aimee and Erin - we discussed that it was a bit confusing and he tried to make it clearer Google spreadsheets - shared with Tracey and Julie Google document with a link to the spreadsheet  Exchanging emails with Tracey : ...

Imaginary play Programming JS - lots, following the tutorial Notion Google spreadsheets

Walking to take Eve to preschool and walking back Hama beads Notion Reading and finishing Wishing Chair Again book Going to get Eve from preschool and walking back Watching many Ted Eds Making recordings on my phone involving singing, talking and counting! Watching Numberphiles

Today Toby and I went to the Natural history museum! We walked to preschool to take Eve and then walked and got the bus the rest of the way to the station. It was a very straightforward journey and Toby read The Wishing Chair Again all the way there even through the changes! Once there Toby reme ...

Watching Science is real videos Came with me to take Eve to baby ballet (walked to MyPlace) and to preschool after. Then walked home Created a Trello board to do with imaginary adventures with Dotsies. Creating different lists with many cards each - for example Adventures list with the possible ...

Walking to and from preschool to take Eve Programming JS Walking to and from preschool to collect Eve Reading Dragons and crumbling castles by Terry Pratchett  Watching Ted Ed Watching Here Comes Science videos  Watching Numberphiles  Helping me with a poster to encourage Toby to ...

Writing down level info for geometry dash on my phone Drawing a comic book love story Watching a Ted Ed Watching Here Comes Science videos :) Walking to and from getting Eve to preschool Continuing with 250 piece puzzle from last night Making new levels on Portal 2 and encouraging me to play the ...

Watched Numberphiles about Sandpiles Finished periodic table 200 piece puzzle Swimming :) Watching VSauce and Vi Hart videos Did spreadsheets Wrote a story in notes Imaginary play with Eve Playing with beads to give to the God of power and making up rules about the power of different colours and ...

Imaginary play with wands Spreadsheet about power of different things - Wands, jewels etc Story on laptop called 'Tricky people' Came into the library to get a Terry Pratchett book and also chose a couple for EveCame into Tesco with me, his motivation was to get pick n mix but he walke ...

Watching Ted Ed about the cold virus as Toby has a cold Reading Enchanted Wood Watching Vi Hart videos Notion - made a really great song which he asked me to listen to Discussed morning routine and how to improve it.  Wrote the music to an encouraging leave the house song Maths workbook - f ...

Reading Enchanted Wood Spreadsheets Reading Magic far away tree Going to collect Eve and walking back in the rain Doing really well while Matthew and Robyn were here. Great hellos and communication  Watching Vi Hart videos - math and music K'nex  Pixelmator  Programming JS We ...

Imaginary play K'nex Writing to makers of Jurassic park app with some suggestions to improve game play Reading Terry Pratchett witch's vacuum cleaner and finished it  Watching VSauce - especially interesting as it was talking about the wheel of emotion which enabled us to discuss ...

Pianipad Reading some simple welsh phrases - need to learn about pronunciation Reading a nonsense poetry book from the library K'nex Reading Witch and vacuum cleaner? Terry Pratchett book Going to get Eve and then walking back through the woods Writing a letter using Contact Us form to Wedg ...

Discussing prime numbers Watching VSauce Science and Literature video Walked to Eve's preschool Went into co-op and helped carry shopping Walked back from preschool Wedgits Hama beads Imaginary play with Eve Maths workbook Writing his own maths worksheet Stuffitystuff  Ted eds about ea ...

Hama beads Sending text messages to Hayley Stuffetystuff Talking Jasmine on FaceTime for ages about Hama beads and playing games like 'now you see me, now you don't!' Watching vsource Science video on YouTube  Geomag Playing chase with Eve, running away from each other with p ...

So I didn't make notes today but it was such a good day! Last year Toby did not have fun at his birthday party - he didn't enjoy opening unknown presents, didn't like the food or party games :( This year we did it differently, we invited family for the afternoon so there was no ea ...

Hama beads Walked to and from preschool to drop Eve off Popping to Hilldene to buy bunting for making 2 and 3 times table display for Eve's preschool Cutting out and painting spinners for his birthday tomorrow Starting 2 times table bunting to give to Eve's nursery - was nervous about ...

Walking to and from preschool to take Eve Hama beads - made three different designs: one for himself, one for Eve and one for Hayley Gadget app Walking to get Eve Going into the woods on the way home and walking through the manor. Had a great time enjoying the sunshine and running around. Unfort ...

Imaginary play and stuffitystuff with Eve Toby was giving everyone points this morning and then entering them in his power league spreadsheet on google sheets. He was displaying people's scores with a pie chart. Walking to and from baby ballet and tap class Sitting through Eve's lesson ...

Stuffitystuff Swift playgrounds Walking to and from preschool to drop Eve off Shopping for prizes in the pound shop in Hilldene Swift playgrounds Helping make a box and coming up with ideas for party games for his birthday Playing with magnets set Geomag Imaginary play  Making a spreadsheet ...

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Today Toby has been doing lots of work on his blog posts and as you can see has published 2 of them :) He also did some more programming on swift playgrounds. Toby and Eve played lots of imaginary games this morning and stuffitystuff. He has been doing some puzzle adventure  games on the iP ...

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Programming in js on the laptop - large numbers again! Playing with Eve with the glow sticks - making a dark party Programming in swift playgrounds - Toby did this for about 4.5 hours today. He covered lots of subjects including user input and forms, the game of life, spirographs and brick games ...

Not much going on today! Toby did a bit of programming using ruby (irb prompt) this morning - mainly multiplying lots of numbers together but he did assign variables. This morning Toby wanted to come into Tesco to buy prizes for his birthday party next weekend. He did come in and made a good eff ...

Reading Maths Quest book Reading what's chemistry all about book Watching lots of ted eds Reading Amazon Adventure science Quest Continuing with his story on the iPad We arrived at High Lodge to drop Jasmine back with Maggy and planned to have lunch and for Toby and Eve to play in the playg ...

This morning Toby had woken very early which was lucky as we had to get ready quickly! Toby did some more on his robot first thing this morning Then he wrote some more of his story at breakfast time. We drove to London and so Toby read Maths Quest books on the way there - he did look up for some ...

Played with Jasmine - cheese feet again and pretending each other are toxic waste! Notion on the iPad Started building the robot Amazing iPad stopping! Watched Ted eds about living in space and why we are so attached to our things Playing dice games with Jasmine that they created Created a nickn ...

Again I am writing this the following day so will not be as detailed. We again did planning for the day but a little less than for Christmas Day but mainly because Toby sees them more frequently. We did a family tree of everyone who was there and did subjects for the people Toby sees less often. ...

I am writing this on the 27th so won't be able to remember everything!  We did quite a lot of planning for the day for Toby, explaining who would be there, what Toby could talk to each person about (with examples sentences) and wrote down actions Toby could take and how many minutes th ...

I forgot to log Toby's activities again today, normal posting will begin tomorrow! Toby's cousin Jasmine is staying with us for a few days. Toby seems to cope with Jasmine doing and saying things to him that he wouldn't cope with anyone else doing! This morning Toby and Eve were p ...

I haven't managed to keep a good log today but here's roughly what has happened.  This morning Toby and Eve did stuffitystuff together and we read stories.  Granddad came over at lunchtime, Toby said hello, thanked Granddad for his presents and said a good goodbye. All for iP ...

Continuing to make me new levels on his counter game on the draughts board Reading Phantom X Reading perfect sausage Even came into Tesco to see how busy it was! Played with Aimee and Erin when the came over. Board game and imaginary play Numberphiles about winning at dots and boxes Played dots ...

Playing draughts Stuffitystuff with Eve Writing new story that he started last night on the iPad - about being in a computer game  Walking to and from Hilldene and popping onto poundshop, co-op and card factory Talking to me about working out square and cube numbers and the inverse (roots). ...

Walking to and from Hilldene. Doing some shopping in the pound shop and in co-op Su doku puzzle Watching ted eds about science and maths Trip out to the library but Toby didn't fancy going in so stayed in the car with Chris. Reading Perfect Sausage maths book Pyramids app on the iPad which ...

Stuffitystuff and imaginary play with Eve Writing more on this story Chemistry app on the iPad Pianipad! Numberphiles - about the constant e, the number of possible chess games Programming JS Playing with the counters Helping Chris make the desk for his room :) Writing an email to Auntie Tracey ...

Ted ed Running around living room to warm me up! Reading Guaranteed to mash your mind Prepared Toby for Ann from Havering home education dept coming to visit. We talked about why she was coming and what he could do when she was here. Toby did a fantastic job of saying hello, answering Ann's ...

Continued with his story on the iPad Pianipad - he did some himself and was helping Eve to do it too with lots of enthusiasm! Did gadget - tried out new styles Trying to teach Eve mental maths around the house and doing some very tricky calculations himself Doing some pianipad with Chris Discuss ...

Reading Awesome Arithmetricks Ted eds - The future of air travel and how do ants handle traffic Stuffitystuff Watched WALL-E film and helped Eve when she was feeling nervous at some parts of it :) Saw that I was wrapping up coin counters for his cousins Aimee and Erin and so said he wanted to gi ...

Reading Do you feel lucky maths book Walking to and from preschool to drop off Eve Spent over 30 mins talking about him running off yesterday - drew social story, discussed what to do in future and discussed what was wrong with his actions Walking to and from preschool to collect Eve from Christ ...

Writing a story in notes on my phone inspired by his dreams! Ted ed - elephants' intelligence Geogebra Reading Awesome arithmetrics Reading Little Miss books Playing with Robyn Started to become rude and after this point needed close guidance Said a good goodbye to Matt and Robyn Gadget - m ...

Reading Awesome Arithmetricks Stuffitystuff Walking to baby ballet and tap Toby sat well through Eve doing ballet and tap even when he finished his iPad time and started doing Geogebra Geogebra Talking about maths on the way home, Toby is hoping he can find a pattern in the digits of pi. He want ...

Walked to and from preschool to take Eve Came to the shops in Hilldene with me and was very patient when I had to go in extra shops Maths jokes from twinkl Unity on laptop Google spreadsheets - making more levels on his game Did not react well to his Grandparents visiting briefly this morning to ...

Reading James and the giant peach Walked to and from preschool to drop Eve off Wrote some tricky nonsense and real word poems on notes so we could try them out! I got marks out of 5! Reading and finishing James and the giant peach Going to through some twinkl resources and looking at the angles ...

Stuffitystuff Gadget - Toby came to show me all the different parts he had used to make his song Reading Guaranteed to mash your mind Playing with his cousins, Doing drawing together and discussing Roman Numerals with Aimee :) Working on his game in google spreadsheets Reading imagination box Sc ...

Continued the Google spreadsheets game he has been making - created a pie chart and edited it for his preferences Stuffitystuff with Eve - really great changing to her needs. Dark party! Discussing mathematical representations with Chris Reading James and the giant peach Imaginary play with Eve ...

Walking to and from preschool to take Eve - about 20 mins walk each way Started writing the 12 days of Christmas song out Watching probability videos on Khan Academy with questions to answer Infinite sums video Starting to learn Greek alphabet Walking to and from preschool to collect Eve - anoth ...

Reading Key to the Universe maths book Running up and down the stairs for exercise 10 times with Chris while I took Eve to the playground Apple Pencil on iPad - drawing and did a tutorial on how to use the drawing app Started doing a todo list in notes Reading the mean and vulgar bits Maths book ...

Pianipad Dominos - number pattern and number towers Stuffitystuff Reading Phantom X Making a game in google spreadsheets Watching Unity tutorials Trying to follow Bob Ross painting with the apple pencil on the iPad Writing beautifully and creating his own alphabet Went out for a walk around long ...

Reading Wrong side of the galaxy Drawing number towns Exercise in living room with Chris Imaginary play with Eve Reading Phantom X Drawing Brain Power diagram Geomag with singing More thinking about brain power, energy and happiness - more diagrams :) Go for a walk round the block Geogebra Progr ...

Lots of stuffitystuff and imaginary play Drawing a Maths maze Writing a key for turning age into code Geogebra Reading Shapes and Sizes maths book Google spreadsheets Awesome book of awesomeness  Playing copying game Finding hidden pound coins with hotter and colder Big walk round the block ...

Pianipad Gadget - lovely to see Toby and Chris going through Toby's space time track together and discussing choices Came out and washed the car with Chris, Eve and me Move the turtle Played Tummyache game with Eve and I Programming JS Read Wrong side of the galaxy Drawing lots of mazes and ...

Geomag Google spreadsheets Continuing with the Neverending Castle story in google docs. Starting a new doc and linking between the 2. Going to the shops - great listening in co-op and came into the library to choose books with no problems Reading The Maya book Ted eds about chemical reactions Re ...

Reading Wrong side of the Galaxy Lots of walking to and from Eve's first morning at preschool Gadget Stuffitystuff - Toby missed Eve when she was at preschool and was looking forward to seeing her :) Google spreadsheets Ted ed lessons - logical riddles Maths pyramid puzzle that I made him r ...

Gadget Stuffitystuff  Ted ed lessons about viruses, logic puzzles and social media Running up the stairs and walking down 15 times in a row then doing 10 more later Geomag Duplo Reading Wrong side of the galaxy Beaker app Played monster bingo Spreadsheets Reading Easy questions, evil answer ...

Reading Wrong side of the Galaxy  Domino patterns Gadget Drawing mazes Geomag  Amazing discussion with me when it was tricky to get Eve to follow his rules for a game. Understanding that she thought he should do what she wanted just like he wanted her to. Teaching Robyn big numbers Stu ...

Reading Key to the Universe maths book Reading Wrong side of the galaxy fiction book Watching art, geometry and maths ted ed lessons Gadget digital music creation - lots of percussion beats today :) Playing with Eve on toca blocks - showing her how to make worlds Programming JS Stuffitystuff - s ...

Walking to MyPlace very fast! Fab behaviour when we had to drop off forms at the preschool - talking to the owner very well Toby unexpectedly chose to come Christmas shopping with me which was brilliant :) Calculating prices in shops Continuing writing his story in notes  Playing Beaker app ...

Helping making a cake - measuring ingredients, sieving and mixing DAW music creation with gadget Pianipad  Reading Easy questions, evil answers maths book Writing some maths down - thinking about square roots Started a game of i-spy colours in the car Scrabble Interacted well with his cousi ...

Numberphiles Walking back from MyPlace Geomag Numberphiles Scratch Geogebra Lots of duplo! Went in the garden while playing with Eve - wooo! Numberphiles  Teaching and creating tracks for Eve on trackmania K'nex  Drawing map with key Chasing each other and playing an imaginary gam ...

Drew up detailed plans for a game that Chris and him were talking about last night! Brilliant :) Reading Key to the Universe maths book Track mania track construction - Chris played one of the tracks and did well so Toby wanted to give him high 10s to 100 and looked at him while doing it! Wantin ...

Stuffitystuff  Geomag - making 2D, long line, icosahedron, 81 block Icosahedron - he made this and discussed the shapes video we watched as he made it - brilliant! Numberphiles- infinity - infinity! Trackmania- track construction  Numberphiles - lots! Writing down one of the infinite s ...

Geomag Reading Most Epic Book of Maths Making a bag out of paper, staples and Velcro! Gadget - digital music creation Trackmania - track construction Watched Numberphiles on adding all natural numbers Building tracks for Eve to do Running round living room for exercise Battleships - Toby version ...

Stuffitystuff  Imagining different people in the family as different planets in the solar system and why they might be! Reading the most epic book of Maths Ever Instant blocks - made square ship Programming JS Watched Ted Ed maths Ate chicken wrap with salad for lunch - wrap in a spiral :) ...

Scrabble Encoding and writing a secret message Playing with and counting money Playing theory of mind game with cups and dice Chasing each other - running! Writing a story in notes Programming JS Writing more on the story Games with Eve Duplo Pianipad Reading numbers up maths book Fast 2 digit m ...

Reading weird and wacky words book Reading mountain peril - geography quest book Stuffitystuff  Helping Eve learn to share  Duplo - built a royal castle and gardens! Imaginary play Haircut by Chris while watching inside out Programming JS Pseudocode for squares :) Matching notes on pia ...

Ted ed lessons Stuffitystuff with Eve Swift playground Read Biology book Reading Do you feel lucky? maths book Playground - scooting, climbing frames and balance course Read Mountain Peril - Geography Quest book Programming JS on Khan Academy Ted ed lessons Played Toby version of monopoly

Periodic table - singing along with the song a few times Ted ed lessons Programming JS Pianipad Pixar in a box - Color Science Pixar in a box - geometry of dinosaur skin Toby is scared of getting things wrong so we did the exercises together. As soon as he didn't get one right, he got put o ...

So today we went to see a private behavioural psychologist. Toby was fantastic when we had to wait for 25 mins in the waiting room and then he was brilliant in the appointment too. He described how he feels when he gets angry and also answered questions. The psychologist made me feels so much be ...

Stuffitystuff with Eve Reading Arithmetricks book Playing Waking Mars Pianipad Watching demonstrations of how things were made before we had our technology. We watched how to make a bow and arrow and how to make a shrimp basket Watching the birth, life and death of stars on Khan Academy Exercise ...

Going over the incredible 5 point scale with Toby - we will start to create the scale so that we can start using it for anger Ted ed on reflexes Playing with dominoes, cards and bananagrams  Writing up lots of numbers and sets - very neatly! Working on Toby's anger control incredible 5 ...

Ted ed videos Pixar in a box on Khan Academy - watching Colour Science videos and completing exercises - completed first half and onto second. What colour is. How we see colour. RGB colour system and HSL system. Why and where they are both used and how to use them including exercises :) Eve and ...

K'nex Ted ed lessons while getting ready - really fab ones to do with microbes! Trampolining - Toby was not keen on going out this morning but was easily persuaded to go trampolining. We were on the big trampolines and doing really well. Went over to the open area, still fine but then start ...

Toby started playing k'nex as soon as he got up - working on his giant star! While having breakfast we watched some ted ed lessons on various subjects Chris and I then went out for the day while Nannie Toni, Auntie Tracey came to babysit with Toby's cousins Aimee and Erin. They said th ...

Read Crashing Computers K'nex - building structures and exploring limits Discussing homophones Spreadsheets - using lots of different functions including conditionals Spreadsheets - creating a board game in spreadsheet using colours Domino games for me to play! Pianipad!!! Ted ed lessons ab ...

K'nex - made a giant star King George's skatepark but spitting with rain Watched video on currency Read algebra book Phantom X book about algebra Read periodic table book Read puzzle book about computers Read little miss books Interacting well with Robyn who came over this afternoon Re ...

Discussed politics this morning and what politicians do as a response to the American presidential elections Instant blox - making up a board game using the green base, Eve and Toby played the game together Watching Khan Academy algebra videos Writing some algebra equations for me to solve! Read ...

Ted ed videos about how big is infinity Move the turtle app Went to the playground - pretending to make heavy chemical elements with Eve around the climbing frames Read a bit of the wildlife book - trying to identify trees and plants Visualising complex geometrical shapes on the way home and get ...

Barcodes - learning about the product code Playing with Eve - she said she wanted to do a picnic with him before doing his game and he agreed - amazing! Hiding marbles and finding them game Reading Wilf the mighty worrier! Reading Charlie and the chocolate factory Discussed the world's popu ...

Trampolining - a really positive session today, Toby spent lots of time in the foam pit. He did look like he was going to escalate but managed to control it and we left about 10 mins early because he asked to. Great fun! Playground. Toby and Eve both went on their scooters. How stuff works video ...

Programming Unity Bit iPad piano exercise in living room Uno Stuffity stuff with Eve Auntie Julie's b'day party - played with cousins - they gave him a role in their imaginary game and he did stick to it for a little while - great stuff! Read Wilf the mighty worrier! Really enjoyed it, ...

Watching Disney snippets and singing frozen songs Khan academy JS programming Geomag Stuffitystuff Writing rules for trades in balls and uno cards - using checklists in notes More Khan Academy JS - really getting into for loops - great stuff :) Uno Stuffity stuff  Counting money - playing s ...

Re-read 65 story treehouse Family outing to King George's playing fields: skatepark - Toby loved it here, mini golf - 18 holes, playground Ted ed lessons Imaginary play Uno card game Making a den with Eve in Toby's room Toby did really well - he went along to piano and apologised to hi ...

Piano and notion Made up elements and wrote up an experiment including apparatus in notes. Programming Khan academy JS Piano Reading 65 storey treehouse - finished whole book! Monster bingo with Eve - added a few rules but adapted for Eve Reading and finished Code of Romulus Unity programming wi ...

Following actions game - Toby wanted to play as soon as we sat down! Stuffity stuff - Toby and Eve giving each other lots of cuddles and love! Periodic table song, science subjects song, burning hot coal in liquid oxygen experiment, electricity through a pickled gherkin experiment - both by peri ...

Periodic table loop cards Playground - lots of walking and climbing! Autumn discussion - looking and talking about all the colours of the leaves and why trees shed their leaves Periodic table crossword Chemcaper app learning all about setting up chemistry experiments and the equipment required K ...

Lots of songs about love and cuddles with me and Eve! Khan Academy JS programming Playing in garden with cousins at Grandad's house Engaged in imaginary play with cousins and even fitted into their game :) Lovely writing creating number codes Read My gym teacher is an alien overlord Chemist ...

We got up this morning and as soon as we went downstairs Toby started reading and he didn't stop until about 1pm! We have ordered the 65 storey treehouse from Amazon. These books are a good example of books that Toby really enjoys (he laughs a lot and reads bits out to us) but they do have ...

Ted ed Imaginary game - planting seeds that had different yields and took different numbers of days to grow to produce more seeds. Toby said he understood about this from Sim City Went through picture book with all the different fairy tales and reusable stickers with Toby and Eve. Discussing eac ...

Chemcrafter - he chose to do this for his morning iPad :) Read Sir Cumference and the knights of the 1st round table book that arrived from Amazon today - another 2nd hand success! Made a geometric shape picture in the style of Kandinsky! Really impressed by this - he made the suggestion to do i ...

30 mins watching logic gates and cpu lessons. Talked about registers ALU, RAM, FSB and binary. Ted ed lessons Enigma machine - reading and demonstrating it to Auntie Maggy Beaker app Chemcrafter Swimming - lots of lengths with float and practising going under the water with cousin Jasmine Huge l ...

Read Mr brother is a superhero Watched Ted Ed lessons - why do we hiccup, what is a vector, what would happen if everyone jumped together Beaker app Patterns app Dinosaur adventure park - lots of climbing, assault course, learning about dinosaurs, walking, going on a huge zip wire! Eating outsid ...

We went to Norfolk today to visit Auntie Maggy, Auntie Linda, Jasmine and Luke.  Stuffity stuff Read Magic of maths Read My brother is a superhero Read aloud Spanish life book Toby very happy that the car park had negative numbers for the underground levels. Also teaching Eve about them Sci ...

Trampolining - wasn't keen but he managed to go and did great moves and coped well Imaginary play Unity to create the game that Toby came up with 2 nights ago - red vs blue. Watched a tutorial but wanted to do his own thing. Created an archway.  Piano practise Beaker app Meet Science 2 ...

Read Magic of Maths Wrote down joined up numbers  Did large sums! Read the sheet with names of large numbers again Played some piano and then helped Nannie play piano and was very encouraging Played Beaker app - got excited about reactions! Did elements app where you add protons, neutrons a ...

Read 'My brother is a superhero' Read poems - Ning nang nong :) Created an exercise game called 'threes' Discussed children in need of food and why some people are hungry in the world. Used UN world hunger app to give a girl meals Beaker app - describing the reactions, the we ...

Times tables and trying to make the prime numbers of the numbers in a time tables grid Geomag Doctors for Eve - social, behaviour v good. Sat well in waiting room and answered doctors questions well. Writing more on story in notes while in the doctor's room Playground - lots of swinging tod ...

Mastermind Imaginary play Ted ed lessons - How to make magnetic slime, what happens when we age Playground Baby ballet - wrote start of story in notes about gates to parallel universes Running around skate park for ages! This was very positive because Toby wasn't keen on leaving the house a ...

Made up a points system using huge numbers - we printed off the names of numbers with lots of zeros Beaker app and did a scientific method write up Word square game where you have muddled up letters and have to rearrange them so all rows and columns are words Ted ed videos - why are there so man ...

Toby had a few tricky moments today - he was quick to get emotional about things but he also did some fantastic things! As soon as he woke up he read all of Go Figure! By Johnny Ball. This is such a fantastic maths book, definitely recommend, we discussed some of the problems in it. Next we went ...

Today was amazing day filled with lots of learning and fun! Again I just have a huge list! Read See Inside Maths to Eve while in bed :) Blocks - building towers and making patterns Piano - practising for lesson without me prompting him to! Watched Periodic table videos for Hydrogen and Helium. T ...

It was Eve's party today. Here were the things Toby did today: Sorting and sets book - came up with ideas, read to Eve Lots of k'nex Playing with older cousin Luke - really great imaginary play :) Geogebra Toca blocks Go Figure! Reading about shapes to start with but then he wanted to ...

Both helped me unpack shopping Notion Piano - lots including practicing his homework! Geogebra Imaginary play - royal chair with Eve Nab it! word game Piano K'nex Wrote rules down for me earning homework points by playing pivot Read Chemistry book  Lots of running around Discussed red ...

I need to start writing these posts are more than just bullet points at some point! The main things today were that Toby ate peanut butter again for lunch and had a brilliant piano lesson after practising today. Chris and I discussed that Toby has become very interested in Geogebra - often Toby ...

First thing this morning, we opened Eve's presents :) Logic gates - reading all about them, print out from Surrey uni then drawing his own. Making input/output operation drawings - showing plus gate and minus gate! In style of logic gates Watched video in app about magnetism and electricity ...

Drawing and discussing chemical bonds - starting describing a game about them Writing out a code and then asking me to write our names in it Toby and Eve played imaginary play for ages - fantastic to watch! Toby read chemical chaos book Couple of word puzzles in puzzle book Toby agreed to eat a ...

This is our first day of official home educating! We had a great day and fitted a lot in. I was keeping a list of all the activities today, here's the list with a few extra details. In future I'll try to work on making it more interesting :) Toby was trying to explain how to build a ca ...

For a long time Toby has talked about the love chain, this is an ordered list of the people Toby loves. Toby really cares about his new teaching assistant, Miss Treacy. We were discussing where she was on the love chain. Toby said that Mummy was first on the love chain, Daddy was second. Chris a ...

Toby was off school today so we got ready in a very relaxed way! Toby and Eve were playing beautifully together with a box full of different counters. We walked to baby ballet, Toby sat with me reading, playing cards and copying the moves occasionally. He was very patient. Eve did brilliantly. T ...

I haven't written a post for a while, I think because each day is more similar when back in the school routine. We tend to rush about to get Toby to school for 8.30am then Eve and I play, tidy or other jobs then pick Toby up at 2pm. We then go to the playground until it starts to get busy b ...

When we arrived at Billy and Leanne's today, Toby had been very happy and good in the car but as soon as we got in he was oblivious to the requirements upon entering someone's house. In future we need to prepare him beforehand about saying polite things and only going into the rooms th ...

While Toby was at school till 2pm, Eve and I did lots of jobs in the house - tidying, clearing and organising. We also did play doh! Toby had a bit of a harder day at school - laid on the floor a couple of times. Toby had another 5 school books to read which we did as soon as he got in. He got i ...

Toby was at school till 2pm again and we had a meeting at his school in the morning - it was really positive :) Eve did well and only got fed up right at the end of the meeting - she was doing blocks and puzzles. Back at home Eve did painting and play doh. Toby got a headteacher award for great ...

It was a Toby at school till 2pm and Eve at preschool till 12.45. It was the first day that I have stayed outside the whole time - they said she did well but she said she felt a bit sad :( Not many photos today. Eve did some nice painting before we had to get Toby. After picking Toby up (he had ...

Eve and I did a bit of shopping in Romford then went to Kidspace. It was brilliant! She had a great time and made friends with a little boy - so cute! Toby finished at 2pm again and we popped to the playground but it was super hot and so we didn't stay long! Toby was reading a Crime and Det ...

Eve and I went to the playground after dropping Toby off. She is getting so confident! We made play doh person! Toby went to school till 2pm again today and had a good day again - woohoo! We went to the playground after school. After school we played Geomag. Toby and Eve pretended to be pillows ...

We started off the day bright and early at Jump Evolution additional needs session - we all had a brill time :) Toby got boffed on the head by a dodgeball and it made him a bit fast and wiggly but after a talk, drink and snack, he went back on the trampolines! Here's Toby playing Portal 2! ...

We started the day with Eve starting back at baby ballet after the summer break. She went up into the 3-4 year old group. She did really well and had a fab time! Toby read books in the car with Daddy while Eve and I were in the class. After a few jobs, we did lots of playing with Geomag. We even ...

Toby had a great day at school today - woohoo! Eve should have been going to preschool today but she has had an allergic reaction to something (we need to figure out what!) and come out in hives - poor Eve. We went to doctors then to the playground.  After getting Toby at 2pm we went to the ...

Same as yesterday, Toby was at school until 2pm and Eve at preschool until 12.45pm. I only stayed with Eve for the first hour today and then left her to it for the rest :) After we picked Toby up (he had a good day - wooo!), we went to the playground followed by the library. Toby is reading Spac ...

Today Toby was at school until 2pm and Eve started preschool at St Thomas. I stayed with her for most of time - she'll do till 12.45 Wed, Thurs and Fri. She had a great time and looks like she will settle really well - it was lovely watching her play and get involved :) Eve had a nap after ...

First day back at school today so less to write about! Sadly Toby fell over on the way to school and got injured :( but he was v brave! He had a really good day at school - he sat through an entire assembly and joined in with lessons :) Toby finished at 2pm today. After school we went to the pla ...

This morning Toby and Eve read the 'How your body works' book for ages! Toby was reading aloud to Eve and they were both discussing the pictures! Toby was also trying to teach me more of the periodic table song - he thought it was funny that he was teaching me! He also created this bin ...

Chris and I went on a date day so Toby and Eve had a brilliant time with their cousins Aimee and Erin, Auntie Tracey and Nannie Toni. They did a treasure hunt, went to the playground and played lots of games :) Here are the photos Tracey took! In the past, I have been worried about leaving Toby ...

The day didn't go as planned because we had no water early morning - we were going to go to the special needs trampolining :( But we baked brownies! Here's Eve waiting for them to cook - they were not very successful as we didn't have all the ingredients, however Eve had a good ti ...

Forgot to do this one! Toby did a lot of piano, he played for well over an hour in one sitting and then did more throughout the day! It was to earn bonus minutes but it was also because we got the premium version of Yousician app. Toby also started setting a timer for himself on the iPad so that ...

Toby and Eve had a relaxed morning playing 'stuffity-stuff', building with blocks, making pretend cakes and having baths. Grandad Golf came over and stayed for lunch. Eve was very impressed with his dragon drawing! This afternoon, Eve and I did lots of play doh while Toby did lots of p ...

Geomag early on today, Toby created this interesting Star Wars type fighter! We went to the park early so pretty quiet :) we had a brilliant time on the climbing bit! Here's Toby putting some serious effort into pushing Eve in the pushchair! And Eve with lots of protection! At home Toby was ...

Toby did lots of iPad today. He was playing lots of piano to get bonus minutes! We have decided to change the rules slightly so that he has to play a song from each of 3 apps so that he had to work a bit harder for the bonus! His playing is brilliant though :) Toby and Daddy played Sword and Sor ...

Jasmine and Luke were up early this morning and playing with Toby and Eve :) Maggy and Linda said they would look after Toby and Eve while Chris and I went to look for mattresses. Toby and Eve had a lovely time - Eve only missed me a tiny bit and Toby went a bit fast and wiggly only once. We als ...

We got ready to go in the morning. Toby was using the grid co-ordinates to find countries on the world map! We are hoping that the huge world wall map will improve all of our geography skills! On the car journey Toby got some extra iPad time but also read How Things Work and See inside Science.& ...

Millions of photos because we did millions of fun things! And in the wrong order! Eve discovering Russian dolls for the first time! Toby making a 'wheely' good Lego car! We went to the playground this morning and as you can see - Jasmine and Luke had a great time and so did Toby and Ev ...

Today Aimee and Erin came over for the day while Tracey was at work. First thing was crafts (while Toby finished his iPad time and did piano iPad to get more minutes!) It was great fun but super hot! Back at home, after ice lollies and lunch, we did more arts and crafts - Eve loved being drawn a ...

The day started with Tantrix, Geomag and puzzles! Followed by the park but it was HOT! Back at home we did lots of building with blocks and Nab it!. Toby read a huge activity book and See Inside Underground. And here's Eve in a scary mask that she painted herself! At bedtime Toby got to use ...

The clouds were very interesting this morning so we used the Weather book that Aunty Maggy and Aunty Linda gave us to identify them. Toby then read the rest of the book! This morning we got lots of deliveries! Toby got the Tantrix game that he bought with all of his change. We have recently star ...

The day started off with some super Geomag creations - Toby was trying to create structures with perpetual motion! Here is Eve showing us Toby's crazy string thing! Toby then cut intricate shapes out of paper to make long strips of paper to make back into a rectangle :) We briefly made a de ...

We went to tesco this morning to get a few bits - Toby was estimating the number of water bottles by multiplying the number of bottles in each pack by the number of packs. He also estimated the cost of the shop and was very close! Back at home Toby and Eve played with play doh for ages! There wa ...

We went to the Jump Evolution special needs session again this morning - it was great fun :) Toby spent most of the time playing in the foam pit. We then went to Julie and Luke's for a BBQ in the afternoon. Toby and Daddy spent lots of time together playing draughts and reading books. We we ...

We did some jobs early on so Toby was reading 'The Sheep Pig' in the car and went into B&Q with Daddy. The Geomag that Toby bought with his money arrived so Toby did lots of building! After lunch I wanted us all to visit the library. Toby didn't want to go and he did a brillia ...

We had a stay at home day today because it was rainy. First thing this morning Toby decided to count lots of his money (he has lots of change mainly from us and Grandad Kevin) so that he could buy more Geomag and Tantrix (the game he played at Granny and Granddad's caravan). Toby enjoyed cu ...

Toby has a new app on the iPad which he is very excited about. It's called 12 and combines a platform game with maths. He was very motivated to get extra iPad time by playing piano! This afternoon Eve had a consultant's appointment at the hospital, the paediatric department has a great ...

We got ready quickly then off to the park, we were looking at all the wildflowers to look them up in the book that Granddad got for Toby! After the playground, we popped to the shops. Both Toby and Eve were great in the shops :) Super trooper Toby walked all the way home! Toby did some amazing G ...

Toby woke up and wanted to continue the game of monopoly he'd started with Chris the night before so an early session of Monopoly before Eve woke up! Eve and Toby had a brilliant time hiding under the covers - a game they call 'stuffity-stuff'! It is a game that they both enjoy! T ...

Here's Toby swinging super high at the playground. We walked to the park, went on the parkour climbing area first then to the main playground. Toby and Eve had a great time. It was pretty busy so they both did very well sticking close to each other and considering each other's needs. B ...

This morning we went to Jump Evolution additional needs session - we all had a great time! Toby made up a new game in the foam pit. Here is his description: A red is a defender from Whites and blacks A white scores out a life from the opponent (if it hits) A black scores out TEN lives from ...

Today was spent at Grannie and Grandad's caravan. Toby spent the morning constructing formal rules again.  Toby played a new game called Tantrix Eve played catch Toby started playing Polarity but decided to make his own rules.

Today we had a stay at home day with lots of activities!  In the morning we completed the big Tractor and Crane jigsaws with Eve. Toby and Eve took turns to figure out where pieces went and Toby did well to let Eve take her time. Toby spent a long time writing rules for a formal system star ...

Round and round I, Back from the forest The forest Round and round the forest we go, forest we go, forest we go, round and round the forest we go, forest, forest, go! The cubes Round and round the cubes we go, cubes we go, cubes we go, round and round the cubes we go, cubes, cubes go!

Element Join-up song Hydrogen is a gas. It won't join with Neon. Lets see why. Neon is a N-O-B-L-E G-A-S. That means Neon doesn't join. Carbon can make four joins. ///////////|\\ /|/... polonium .../|/ /|/ Astatine. note: there is a title. it links to this. this link ...

The periodic Table The periodic Table Hydrogen and Helium, then Lithium Beryllium. Boron Carbon everywhere, Nitrogen all through the air; With Oxygen so you can breath and Fluorine for your pretty teeth; Neon to light up the signs, Sodium for salty times...   ...Magnesium; Aluminium Silicon ...

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Making Space Trumps and I told daddy how I visited Galileo in 1610 and discovered Jupiter's moons!

I was excited about reading a book to myself tonight.

I liked my first day, it was great

I watched Uncle Chris @cjv3 play football :)

Super 7 @no_monkeys is one of my favourite games!

When main sequence stars collide, over 10 million years the increased energy produced can turn it into a Blue Straggler!

Toby teaching me some addition.

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Tonight, just before sleep time Toby was very adorable and hugged each of us in turn and said "love mummy", "love daddy" :)

Tonight, just before sleep time Toby was very adorable and hugged each of us in turn and said "love mummy", "love daddy" :)

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Hearts Toby

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Today I went to Timbuk2 with Daddy, Uncle Gary and Skye. It was really fun, we went down the big slides and did lots of climbing and some football, I now know a goal is not a random man. We then did singing and dancing and playing in a group. I ate tomato soup with pieces of bread for lunch and ...

Today I went to Timbuk2 with Daddy, Uncle Gary and Skye. It was really fun, we went down the big slides and did lots of climbing and some football, I now know a goal is not a random man. We then did singing and dancing and playing in a group. I ate tomato soup with pieces of bread for lunch and ...

I love my smart new jumper and I love being on a train!

I love my smart new jumper and I love being on a train!

I liked it and I enjoyed dipping my bread into it :) I watched daddy making Nannies beef caserole to keep me entertained.

I liked it and I enjoyed dipping my bread into it :) I watched daddy making Nannies beef caserole to keep me entertained.

I did jumping and splashing and floating and a bit of dunking daddy, hehe.

I did jumping and splashing and floating and a bit of dunking daddy, hehe.

I ate a whole plate of scrambled egg and then asked for more, I also asked for "bread please"

I ate a whole plate of scrambled egg and then asked for more, I also asked for "bread please"

After playing feeding monkey and rabbit, mee read me this wonderful book about a kind mouse who shares his cheese, I love it and say eat, cheese, moon, spots, cat, then I say oof and jump up and down on daddies tummy to make him say oof, hehe, goodnight everyone

After playing feeding monkey and rabbit, mee read me this wonderful book about a kind mouse who shares his cheese, I love it and say eat, cheese, moon, spots, cat, then I say oof and jump up and down on daddies tummy to make him say oof, hehe, goodnight everyone

A milk bottle makes a great musical instrument!

A milk bottle makes a great musical instrument!

... And Mummy is perhaps a little obsessed now she has this working on her phone :)

... And Mummy is perhaps a little obsessed now she has this working on her phone :)

Uncle Chris Jose came round and he bought me some lovely trousers and shirt. I thought he was very funny and he tickled mr and I shook his hand. I can't wait to see him again.

Uncle Chris Jose came round and he bought me some lovely trousers and shirt. I thought he was very funny and he tickled mr and I shook his hand. I can't wait to see him again.

While I ate elevenses daddy cleaned the dust out of the tumbledryer filter, it looked fiddly, poor daddy!

While I ate elevenses daddy cleaned the dust out of the tumbledryer filter, it looked fiddly, poor daddy!

This is a new game me and my daddy invented. You drop the blocks down the back of the radiator and laugh a lot when it when it shoots out the bottom then daddy rolls or across the room and I chase it. It's the best game we have invented in at least 2 hours:-)

This is a new game me and my daddy invented. You drop the blocks down the back of the radiator and laugh a lot when it when it shoots out the bottom then daddy rolls or across the room and I chase it. It's the best game we have invented in at least 2 hours:-)

I like the bunny

I like the bunny

I still like playing with daddy's funny little game web though I am forever feeding this bunny with carrots he always seems to want more!

I still like playing with daddy's funny little game web though I am forever feeding this bunny with carrots he always seems to want more!

I need a bigger cutlery

I need a bigger cutlery

I wanted to try my booster seat today :-)

I wanted to try my booster seat today :-)

Daddy said what colour is it so I told him it's blue silly, he said try another colour and I realised it's pink and told him so. Daddy doesn't seem very good at colours because he asks me what they are at least once a day, silly daddy!

Daddy said what colour is it so I told him it's blue silly, he said try another colour and I realised it's pink and told him so. Daddy doesn't seem very good at colours because he asks me what they are at least once a day, silly daddy!

I drew the mans on the left and I told daddy it was a man lots of times in case he was confused, he drew upa daise on the right which is very funny and not very good, except for the hair which I pointed at and said hair then I pointed at daddy's head and said gone hehe

I drew the mans on the left and I told daddy it was a man lots of times in case he was confused, he drew upa daise on the right which is very funny and not very good, except for the hair which I pointed at and said hair then I pointed at daddy's head and said gone hehe

I liked watching daddy take the bags out so I said more bags

I liked watching daddy take the bags out so I said more bags

Pigs are one of my favourite animals, especially if they are called Peppa or George

Pigs are one of my favourite animals, especially if they are called Peppa or George

Yum yum :-)

I just finished my second full plate of Nannies beef casserole, daddy made up for dismal failure of yesterday :D

I just finished my second full plate of Nannies beef casserole, daddy made up for dismal failure of yesterday :D

Yum yum :-)