Let's be honest, are we still doing sit-down learning when it's this beautifully sunny outside? We're not - not to the same extent that we usually do...
We're only 6 and 3 right now, so there isn't hours and hours of learning time anyway, not intentional learning anyway, we're always learning! While the weather is this stunning, we are spending as much time as physically possible outside, and by that, I mean that some days the boys go outside straight after breakfast, and don't come in again until bathtime... One day, they didn't even get dressed because they changed out of their pyjamas into their swim stuff, and by the time they decided they were done, it wasn't worth getting dressed!
Most mornings, if we aren't heading out somewhere planned for an early start time, we still fit in our literacy and numeracy, where Bear works through a couple of exercises for each, taking anywhere between ten minutes to half an hour. The Cub joins us sometimes, where he is learning his alphabet and matching capital and lower case letters, and recognising numbers, which he pretty much has in the bag now.
We try to fit in some crafty work which usually stems from our Whimsy & Bug subscription box, and Bear reads... all the time! He reads in a morning, he checks out his magazines at random times of day, he has lift-the-flap encyclopedias in the car, they listen to me read at bedtime together, and then Bear reads a chapter book to himself for a while before going to sleep. We also still play a lot of card and board games, which regularly have maths elements to, especially Uno, which we have just got a newer version of and both boys are loving it!
I have squeezed in some nature studies while out and about in parks etc, but other than that, we are playing out in the sun, spending time in splash parks and on the beach before the summer holidays make everywhere busy. We are playing in the garden, splashing in the paddling pool and chilling with ice lollies in the shade...
Because, honestly, if the schools are closing and sending children home, then we can manage a few days without any structure!
How are you surviving the heat wave?
Mama Bear x
