Toby Jake Allen

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...

Daily blog – Fri 3rd Sept

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 learnt about this problem from a TedEd riddle video which we watched again after the lesson. Toby solved the...
Daily blog – Thurs 2nd Sept

Daily blog – Thurs 2nd Sept

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 favourites on Toby’s laptop with some of the online resources we will be using (Khan Academy, Corbett Maths, Twinkl, BBC Bitesize,...