Abi's Adventures

My home education journey

  • Visiting Bruge, Belgium

    We spent some time exploring Bruges on our bikes.

    Things Learnt:

    • The Belgium flag is black, yellow and red vertical stripes 🇧🇪
    • Belgium has 3 national languages: Dutch, French & German.
    • Bruge is very beautiful with lots of cobbled streets and canals
    • There is a massive square in the centre of the city with a giant bell tower called the Belfry of Bruge.
    • Belgium is famous for making delicious chocolate and waffles.
    • In Belgium cycling is a very comm way to get around. There are dedicated bike lanes everywhere.

    I also spent an hour at a bouldering/climbing place which was great fun.

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  • Foreign supermarkets

    You are not allowed to take certain foods like milk, fruit, meat etc from the UK into the European Union (the EU).

    We went to a supermarket in Belgium and they had machines that disperse fresh orange juice (or pomegranate juice) into bottles. I overfilled ours and made a mess.

    Another difference to UK supermarkets is that you can’t buy ready sliced bread! Instead, you choose your loaf and if you want it sliced there is a machine that does it for you.

    One of the supermarkets in the Netherlands keeps all its milk products in it‘s own chilled room inside the main supermarket!

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  • The Channel Tunnel

    There is a train that goes UNDER THE SEA!!! And it takes CARS and VANS and LORRIES!. It is called Le Shuttle and it connects the UK with France.

    It opened 30 years ago in 1994.

    We went on it to get to France in our camper.

    Cars and vans drive into special carriages that have security doors between each carriage. There were 3 campervans in our carriage. You stay in your vehicle for the whole crossing. It takes 35 minutes.

    Lorries travel in open carriages, we watched on go past on a different platform whilst we were waiting to board.

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  • Goose progress

    Our Canada geese have now laid their eggs and Kelly, the mum, has started sitting on the nest to incubate the eggs.

    Sadly one egg fell into the water so it’s not going to hatch. Daddy fished it out so I could have a look. It was really big and white. I wonder how big dinosaur eggs were?

  • Kitchen creation 2

    Today I made designed another biscuit based dessert. This time I started with a chocolate digestive and added maple syrup, banana slices and finished it off with a grape.

  • Counting money

    I emptied my money box and mummy helped me count the contents.

    We made piles of coins that each equalled £1:

    • a £1 coin
    • 2 x 50p coins
    • 5 x 20p coins
    • 10 x 10p coins
    • combinations of the above.

    We made piles worth 10p using the 1p, 2p and 5p coins.

    In total, I had £6.87.

  • Iron Age at Castell Henylls

    Things learnt:

    • How to make fire
    • Playing in the playground with new and old friends
    • In the iron age people made weapons like knives and swords out of iron.
    • The staff explained how they made their houses, and how the roofs were cleverly designed to keep the rain out, but also how to let the smoke from their fires vent safely.
    • We milled corn and added water to make flour using a machine and then we made bread over the fire.
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  • Kitchen creation 1

    Tonight I was allowed to create my own dessert.

    I started with a Nice biscuit and asked mummy to drizzle some maple syrup over it. Next I arranged some mini marshmallows on top, we drizzle a tiny bit more maple syrup over then added a slice of banana on top. I finished it off with a sprinkling of cocoa powder.

    It was delicious.

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  • Kayaking

    I have started a 10 week course at the Llandysul Paddlers.

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  • Fractions

    Daddy has started teaching me basic fractions.

    We talked about halves, quarters and other fractions.