We love weekends because it gives us the chance to get out and about as a family and to learn and develop skills outside. Being outside gives lots of opportunities for incidental learning – you might have read some of the posts about learning walks before where learning takes place whilst out and about and in a way which children don’t see as teaching or learning because it is fun.
This weekend (weather permitting!) we are getting the boys back on their bikes. Biggest Littlesheep got a new bike with gears for Christmas so he will be learning how to use those, Middle Littlesheep has now inherited his Biggest’s bike so will get to grips with a larger frame and Littlest Littlesheep will get his dream of a bike with pedals when we put the stabilisers back on the smallest bike we have. Littlest Littlesheep also has a balance bike but he hasn’t ever really got to grips with gliding rather than walking it and spent most of last summer complaining it didn’t have pedals like his brothers so I think he will be happier learning with stabilisers.
This post is linked up to the Country Kids at Coombe Mill Linky – why not take a look at other children enjoying being out and about and share yours too.
I love this! It’s wonderful seeing their progression up the scale isn’t it? I must get ours out on theirs, our main problem is getting all the bikes to the place we want to ride!
I think putting the bikes onto the car is going to get increasingly tricky… we used to throw the three of them in the boot but I don’t think this monster will fit!
ooo I may have to have a think for this linky as we have been busy today preparing our garden to plant bulbs etc … for spring
The linky is on every week – it’s great to look at what children have been up to out and about
Thanks for linking up with us this week. Loving that photo, he is looking so grown up on that bike!
No problem – he does look so much bigger doesn’t he!
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