Toby Jake Allen

Daily blog – Fri 17th Sept

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 thinking about systems where different coloured pieces on a chess board have different functions – like copy,...

Daily blog – Thurs 16th Sept

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 the blog soon! Toby again practised lots of piano. He spent a long time on Beyond Sudoku! Toby has been reading the DK...
Daily blog – Wed 15th Sept

Daily blog – Wed 15th Sept

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 pieces and the chess board. We were trying out different rules and variations to see what worked best. We went to Team...

Daily blog – Thurs 9th Sept

We started the day with Magnetic Polydron. Toby was exploring interesting tilings with equilateral triangles and hexagons, thinking about colour patterns. He then thought about these as nets for 3D shapes. He plans to make a video to explain his findings. Toby...
Daily blog – Wed 8th Sept

Daily blog – Wed 8th Sept

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 stars on multiple songs! He did a beautiful Zentangle after reading through the Zentangle book for inspiration. He...