Tuesday, February 6, 2018

Larry and Steven at a Lowell event 2010


Many thank yous to Jeany Rios for this great photo

Monday, April 24, 2017

Steven Welding

https://youtu.be/YmOmg2DBRvU

Sunday, February 26, 2017

Passed all 3 Regents!!!

Global 81
Liv Env 71
Common Core Algebra I 77
Way to go

Monday, July 14, 2014

Finance 2014 including Debt and Population

Yesterday we visited Finance and Math in the NY Times Business section including looking at the biggest movers of the year so far like Google and also at the Mutual Funds report for the second quarter

Today we discussed hyperinflation in Germany in the 1920's




Moore's Law




both of the above are exponential functions
also we checked out the pop clock http://www.census.gov/popclock/
and the debt clock  http://www.usdebtclock.org/


Monday, June 30, 2014

Summer Math 2014

Summer Math Skills Sharpener Pre-AlgebraBasic Math Review for the Middle Grades
Summer skills for Math
we have been doing some of the pages from these books in prep for the Harbor School
http://www.summerskills.com/books/summer-math-skills-sharpener-1

Thursday, June 12, 2014

Math Bits!! this Spring

We have done a mix of state test prep, Khan A and Math Bits

MBtop

Friday, April 4, 2014

Khan Academy!


We have been doing Khan A for about a month and Steven does it at school in lieu of IXL.

Monday, March 10, 2014

Steven got into the Harbor School

We are so excited
When Steven called me I was teaching at the college and had told my students that I was expecting a call...when I saw the number come thru I picked up and heard "Mom I got in!!"

It was done by lottery and when we went to visit they did not have our name because I had entered it into the computer too early in Sept
So we called many times and then it was not until Nov that I went to pick up Steven at school and Ruth Joseph was in the office and called while I was there.   Luckily I had my phone in my pocket b/c Ruth was asked what date we were there.  When she told the Asst Principal, the response was "Oh now I see his name written in"
We then emailed the principal and AP and then sent a printout of the email via snail mail with a maritime stamp

We are soo excited

Thursday, December 19, 2013

Math on www.engageny.org

  Using the modules for Grades 7 and 8 plus some Algebra, Steven is learning content close to, at or even above grade level!

Back to Homeschooling (After and Before Schooling)

Monday, December 2, 2013

Harbor School Application is in

we will be waiting til March 
keep your fingers crossed!

Friday, April 26, 2013

Honor Roll for 3Q

we are so proud and so are Mrs Devins and Mr S!!!

The Shadow Children

5 books already read!
Two more to go!

Monday, October 8, 2012

Civil War

From mid-August 2012
While the white men argued, the slaves surfed
(instead of
While the white men argued, the slaves suffered.

Sunday, July 1, 2012

Mammoth Math late June throuh summer

Home
Integers, Money and Percents

Also measurement with a ruler!!!
"Pinky Pye" was a great book about a cat who could type.  It was interesting and captivating.

Tuesday, June 5, 2012

Ginger Pye

Ginger Pye was a very exciting and adventurous book.  It deserved the Newbury medal.
I just liked it!  My favorite characters was Uncle Bennie because of his antics.
Now we are on to the sequel Pinky Pye!!

Sunday, April 29, 2012

Daily Spark Prealgebra

Khan Academy for One Month

from February til March Steven did about 10 minutes of Khan Academy every day.  Then in mid-March, we switched to test prep.

Saturday, March 17, 2012

The Kite Fighters

 
This was a very interesting book.  I liked the entire book.
I liked the scene and the history.  It took place in Korea.

Monday, February 20, 2012

Volunteering at Beczak on Saturdays


Starting 2/11/12, Steven is working at Beczak on Saturday mornings.

Saturday, December 17, 2011

Judy Blume books late Fall

Read through all the Fudge books -- some out loud and some independently
Rest of the time, usually Peanuts and/or non-fiction out loud such as DK books on World War I. WW II, Money, etc

Sunday, November 6, 2011

Monday, October 3, 2011

September Reading

Started Rabbit Hill...read for school reading logs
and also Peanuts anthologies

Tuesday, September 6, 2011

George's Marvelous Medicine

This only took 2 days -- great illustrations and funny!!!