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12

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...

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Science

Science

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...

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Reptangles

Reptangles

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...

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Love picture

Love picture

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...

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Poorly

Poorly

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...

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4D toys

4D toys

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...

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Pages wood

Pages wood

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....

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Monopoly

Monopoly

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...

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Piano

Piano

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...

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Knight defense

Knight defense

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...

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Street climbing

Street climbing

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...

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Endless stories

Endless stories

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...

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Love day!

Love day!

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...

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Nature walk

Nature walk

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!...

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Notion composition

Notion composition

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...

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Audioshare puzzle

Audioshare puzzle

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...

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Shapes!

Shapes!

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...

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Godel, Escher, Bach

Godel, Escher, Bach

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...

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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...

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Street climbing

Street climbing

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...

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Nannie Toni’s

Nannie Toni’s

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!...

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Rainy day

Rainy day

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...

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Hot Wires

Hot Wires

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...

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Back home

Back home

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...

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Water walk

Water walk

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...

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Brighton and a cliff!

Brighton and a cliff!

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...

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Bodiam Castle

Bodiam Castle

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...

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Family Party!

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...

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Timbuk2

Timbuk2

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...

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Aimee and Erin!

Aimee and Erin!

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...

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Piano!

Piano!

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...

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Woke early!

Woke early!

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...

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Digital piano!

Digital piano!

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,...

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Arc-hitecture

Arc-hitecture

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...

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Adventure island again!

Adventure island again!

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...

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Rainham marshes

Rainham marshes

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...

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Ancestry

Ancestry

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...

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Story!

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...

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Highlodge

Highlodge

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,...

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Horrible Cakes

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...

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I'm Toby, this is me....well this is me behind a geometrical shape I made, but you get the idea.

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