LEGOLAND Education

Although today was a completely unfathomable weather for the beginning of October here in UK, pretty much the kind of weather you'd wear the clothes our boys are wearing in this picture below, this is actually a post dated entry. That day in Legoland, was, coincidentally, the same day most of Oliver's little friends from pre-school went to their first day at school.

And so , we went to Legoland instead.  

We weren't trying to prove a point of any sort, but we figured out  we might get a great warm day and half - empty theme park, for once.  And we did. We went about our business looking at miniature Scotland, France and London in Miniland, visited fields of yellow ducks,  Jo-Jo fell in love with a lego figure and both got a lasting memory of Red Riding Hood story while riding around in Fairy Tale Brook. I think it was the first time the story came alive for both boys, O in particular.  He recognised and has been showing a very distinctive interest in Little Red Riding Hood since then.  She's probably all alive to him now, despite Legoland mercilessly cutting out the pappy bit at the end , where the woodcutters let the RH out. But O seemed fine about it. We had that chat about talking to strangers and wandering off all by yourself. 

What a fantastic day, indeed.  I got Oliver to count stripes on Jo-Jo shorts and teach him ( Jo-Jo)  some colours, so not much accountable 'education'  but it was a great day that Oliver still mentions, the bridges and the trains and the buildings in Mini Land, the submarine, the 3 little pigs' performance,  the whole load of other things they still seem to remember ( as in 'We should use bricks, they are very good for houses' Oliver tells me these days in Discovery Centre's Building site). 

It was a nice first day of our Home School and it's amazing how much kids learn from everywhere and anywhere,  if you start paying attention to how they connect and reference things, so very effortlessly and continuously.