Abi's Adventures

My home education journey

  • Hoo Zoo and Dinosaur Park

    After the Vanlife Festival we visited the Hoo Zoo and Dinosaur Park just outside Shrewsbury.

    There were lots of animated dinosaurs dotted throughout the woodland walk.

    They were in chronological order. Mummy read out the information boards and we learnt about the 5 mass extinctions that the world has seen.

    Not all dinosaurs lived at the same time, there were millions of years between some of them.

    We saw lots of fossils and replica dinosaur bones.

    We saw replica skeletons on woolly mammoths and woolly rhinos.

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  • Vanlife Festival

    Mummy and I spent the weekend at the Vanlife Festival in Shrewsbury.

    I made several new friends, some of which we hope to meet up with again on our travels.

    We listened to a few of the speakers and I enjoyed looking around the different campers. There was such a selection, some people actually live in their campervans, lorries, trucks and even a double decker bus.

    I took part in the drumming session at the Wellness Area.

    We watched the blacksmiths and the wood carvers.

  • South East Wales Trip

    This weekend we went away in our campervan and visited:

    Gnoll Country Park

    • admired the Tree of Many Faces
    • walked up the cascades
    • saw the barn owl and jackdaw sculptures
    • explored the woods
    • played in the adventure playground

    Parc Bryn Bach

    • cycled around the pond
    • made new friends in the playground
    • fed the geese
    • learnt what a Muscovy Duck is
    • saw the biggest family of Canada Geese ever!

    Cwm Darran Falls

    • walked to the Cwm Darran Falls and explored the memorial garden

    Parc Penallta

    • I flew our drone over Sultan the Pit Pony

    Caerphilly:

    • cycled to the splashpad at Morgan Jones Park
    • cycled past Caerphilly Castle
    • went swimming in the Leisure Centre

    Cardiff City Centre:

    • cycled some of the Taff Trail
    • paddled at Blackweir
    • played the musical instruments in Bute Park
    • enjoyed the splashpad in Victoria Park

    Barry Island

    • went on some of the rides at the funfair
    • played on the beach
    • played on the 2p slot machines
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  • Ballooning Moths

    We came across a wildlife wonder today on our morning walk in Cardiff. We saw hundreds of Winter Moth Caterpillars all hanging on threads dangling from a Siberian Elm tree.

    We found out from Google that this is called Ballooning and it’s a method the newly hatched caterpillars use to travel to a different tree.

    There were countless strings of moths swinging around in the wind, it was impossible to walk under the tree without getting them caught on you.

  • See saw science

    Whilst playing on the se​e-saw Mummy demonstrated leverage. Mummy weighs more than me, so when she sits on the end of her side, I find myself stuck in the air.

    However, if Mummy sits nearer the centre and I stand right on the edge I can lift her end off the ground.

    We experimented with us both moving up and down and eventually found the point of equilibrium or balance.

  • Hand writing

    I have been praciting my lower case hand writing.

  • Recent Socials & Exercise

    • We took my friends Lissy & Red to Sgilliau softplay
    • I’ve had play dates with:
      • Joey
      • Esmae
    • Betsan came for a sleepover
    • Continuing weekly sessions at:
      • Llandysul Paddlers
      • Plant Dewi Family Group
      • Doyles Drama Academy
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  • Recent Arts & Crafts

    • I made a flower for our gardener out of a paper plate
    • practising my still life drawing
    • painting at Plant Dewi group
    • drawing dinosaurs

  • Recent sums

    Here’s the multiplication sums I did today using my abacus.

  • My First Eye Test

    Today I had my first ever eye test. It was lots of fun. I enjoyed reading all the letters and thought it was fun when the optician keep changing the lenses in the funny spectacles he asked me to wear.