March Recap

We finally saw the sun make its appearance during March and it made a huge difference to what we got up to! I am very much a summer girl and I kind of hibernate over the colder months, but now that the sun is on its way, I'm game for so much more.

We started the month off with Forest Tots where we went worm whispering, caught ourselves some worms and then built a womery. Bear loved this, but refused to touch a worm... can't say as I've ever picked a worm up before - it's strange what being a parent does for you! We went on adventures in Sherwood Pines with Nannie, made it out to the Yorkshire Wildlife Park with our new annual passes, went on a spring scavenger hunt in Sandall Park for the equinox, finally made it out to Withernsea to the caravan and then finished off the month with Little Farmers at Boston Park Farm, where I also took The Cub to Mini Farmers as Daddy was off work to come with us and entertain Bear and then a birthday adventure for Daddy out in the Peak District with some friends. Indoor adventures included World Book Day at the bookshop, a trip to Flip Out trampolining and soft play, a solo trip for The Cub to Curiouser & Curiouser playgroup at Grimm & Co (more on them soon as they reopen their doors to their Emporium of Stories, a visit to The Deep whilst at the seaside and finding a new mini soft play area in our local shopping centre.

Not quite as many adventures as I would have liked, but the weather has been so hit and miss that it's been hard to plan anything... when it's nice it's beautiful and when it's not it's horrific!

Our outside time didn't necessarily take a hit though as we finally got into the garden and got it cleaned up and the toys out. We've spent loads of time out there during March, playing games, drawing pictures, practicing our frisbee and plane skills, and of course, there were bubbles! We also got outside plenty at the seaside - walking into town and back every day, visiting the fair and hooking ducks (Bear's favourite), learning new skills when Bear got his new skateboard and obviously, on the beach! Though, there wasn't enough of that for my liking due to the weather!

We racked up another 51 hours to add to our total for 1000 hours outside challenge, meaning that we breached the 100 mark :) We got outside every day again in all weather types and I couldn't be prouder of my boys for taking everything in their stride and never complaining about the cold or the rain.

We took a break in our learning near the end of March due to having Daddy at home for over a week while we went away to the caravan, had birthday outings and then the Easter bank holiday weekend, but until then we had done several things for both letters and numbers, along with some Spring activities. 

Bear finally seems to have gotten a grip on numbers 1 - 10 and I am working hard to get them solidified with as much use of them as possible, including some dot-to-dots, the usual wipe-clean books and some dice work when we played Dungeons & Dragons - Pirate Style! Bear knows that both me and his Daddy play D&D and has wanted to get involved for a while. I decided to let him have a go, making him a character sheet and then telling him a story and letting him make decisions and roll dice to find statistics. He loved it and it was a great way to use the numbers 1 - 6, ordering them to know which was a better number and whether it was higher or lower than the one I'd given him to beat.

Letters are much of the same, we are still working on matching capitals and lower case letters, and naming them as we know their letter sounds. I got Bear this cute little magnetic whiteboard which he has used with his alphabet, giving him a different space to work on.

We also did some work on Spring, looking at what seasonal changes were happening. I had a sticker/storybook that we read and Bear went to town with the stickers, and then on the equinox we went on a scavenger hunt with some friends to look for the signs we'd spent a few weeks talking about.

Our March Focus Book was Wild Book Day by Karl Newson and we loved this one - a perfect story to read around World Book Day. More to come on this in a post of its own.

Reading this month saw some new books, including a brilliant fact book about sharks that we picked up from The Deep. Bear loves sharks, and he recalls facts so well. He has learned so much from just one read-through, I can't wait to see how much he learns when we reread it another time.

With this slow improvement in the weather, I have many plans for April - if anyone ever wants to join us, then you are always more than welcome. 

What did you get up to in March? 

Momma Bear x