Little-Ns Own Origami Creations

Little-N loves origami. He has worked on some basic models and folds over the years. This year he has taken origami to another level and is now creating his own models. Below is a swan model that he made up.

 Little-Ns origami swans.

A row of Little-Ns swans in his room.

Little-N showing some of his friends how to make his origami swan.

Peeling and Cutting Carrots

Little-N enjoys cooking and preparing food. I noticed that he didn't peel vegetables properly so I reintroduced him to the carrot peeling activity.

Obsession With Birds

Eight months later and Little-N is still obsessed with birds. At the moment Little-N is interested in passerines ; perching birds. He can identify many local birds and will identify the hidden birds by their songs and flight pattern. As usual he spends plenty of time drawing birds and making his own little bird books. Here are a few recent pictures of Little-N working on his bird books.

Parts of The Line

Little-N has been working with line activities in the geometry curriculum. Below is the first activity where he learns the names of the different parts of the line: origin, ray, endpoint, line segment.

Here he uses a string to represent the line and labels the parts. 

Here Little-N is using the parts of the line cards.

Point, Line, Surface, Solid

Here is Little-N working with a geometry activity. The golden beads are used to represent a point, line, surface and solid.

Small and Large Bead Frame

Little-N has worked with the stamp game and small bead frame for years and can already work out long addition and subtraction sums without using materials.  Recently I've been preparing him for multiplication on the small and large bead frame. To prepare him he has revised the following activities.

Long addition and subtraction  using the stamp game.

 Long addition and subtraction using the small bead frame.

Addition and subtractions with millions using the large bead frame.

Little-N worked on these activities well, soon I will be introducing him to multiplication with the bead frames and checker board. 

Wasp studies

Yesterday morning this wasp appeared in the children's cloakroom at school. At first it wasn't moving and appeared to be dead. I was worried it would still sting me so I trapped it in a petri dish with  the intention that if it was dead I could maybe keep it. It didn't move straight away so I taped the petri dish and left it for a while. It started to move and I realised that it was still alive and knew that Little-N would love some time to observe it.  

Little-N kept it on his desk next to him and began to research in his books to find out about the wasp. He was fascinated when he saw it open and close its mandible [mouth].

 He then worked on drawing this very detailed picture of a wasp and labelled the different parts.