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A collection of 112 posts

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Homeschool Math - Chain Rule Derivatives and Line Multiplication

With the start of the new school year comes new subjects and variations of the existing. Carson has been studying the chain rule for complex derivatives in calculus. Tucker is continuing linear systems in algebra, but we took a few minutes to learn the line method of multiplying -- an

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Tucker's Candy Machine

This is the candy machine I made out of legos. put a nickel in the slot... and out comes the candy! Also, this is me, Tucker writing my first blog post!

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Tucker's Bird Feeder

Tucker designed and built this bird feeder.

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National Bring Your Child to Work Day - Rock Creek Group

Thursday, April 26 was National Bring Your Child to Work Day.  Carson and Tucker commuted with me, walking to the subway station, then taking the subway downtown, then walking to the office.  Savannah was so disappointed that she was sick and couldn't go with us. We were greeted

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Random Events

Savannah at the grocery store yesterday: Our kids archery bow is in a storage unit, so Tucker decided to make his own bow:

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Walking around the neighborhood

We went for a walk through the neighborhood this afternoon and caught this candid picture.

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Tucker's Birthday

Today was Tucker's day; he couldn't contain his excitement as his birthday party approached. We decided to celebrate his birthday this afternoon. Instead of a birthday cake, he decided that he wanted to make his own piñata.  With Angela's help, he made a paper

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Family Woodwork Class

A month or two ago, the kids and I decided to do some woodwork.  Carson made his own lockbox / treasure box and Tucker and Savannah made bird feeders.  They all turned out pretty well.

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Fire Station Open House

How often do you get to use an actual fire hose? Several weeks ago, the fire station near us had an open house.  So went visited with the fire fighters and the kids were able to learn more about their jobs.

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Learning to Ride Bicycle

We didn't have a good area for the kids to ride bicycles in Atlanta, so Tucker and Savannah didn't get much experience until we moved to Fairfax. A few weeks ago, Tucker said, "I don't want the training wheels on my bicycle anymore.

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Mt Bethel Elementary Fun Run

The boys wanted to participate in the Mount Bethel Elementary Fun Run.  We're not the most athletic family, but they did pretty well on the one mile run. After the race, I asked the kids if they'd like to stay and look at the booths and

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Tucker's Gifted Program

A month ago we received a letter from Tucker's school asking if they could test him for the gifted program.  We discussed it with him and he didn't seem to be very interested, so we declined.  Within hours of the form being returned to the school,

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Tucker Turns Six

We posted this a little late, but we celebrated Tucker's birthday last month with the Mattys' at Chuck E Cheese's.  We played games for about an hour, then we went out to lunch together. Afterwards, we came home and enjoyed Tucker's Minecraft ice

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Tucker's First Book - The Book of Mysteries

Tucker has been writing and illustrating books at school and is proud of his accomplishment.  He brings them home and reads them to us during reading time.  Then he'll take Savannah to the side and read them books to her and describe the pictures to her.  It is

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Trapping Leprechauns

The boys decided that they needed to trap any Leprechauns that came to our house during St. Patricks day 'so that they could get the Leprechaun's gold'.  So Tucker and Carson each devised their traps and used some of my gold plated bb-gun pellets as bate.

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Lego Movie Fans

Our boys saved up their money so that they could see the Lego Movie  They loved it.  Afterwards, we went to the store and bought some mystery packs of Lego Movie mini-figures.  Lego sure knows how to market to our kids, between Lego magazine, Lego X-Box games, Lego toys, the

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Tucker's Prayer

In his bedtime prayer this evening, Tucker said, "I'm thankful for move".  Which I asked him what he meant afterwards.  He said that he is thankful that we moved to Georgia.

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Lessons Learned: Pine Trees

Lesson learned: large pine trees make lots of large pine needles.  We've spent hours with rakes and with the blower cleaning up.

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Playing in the Rain

The kids love playing in the rain...

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Quotable Tucker

Tucker was telling me about his day.  He said that he and his friend wanted to play with another boy.  So Tucker suggested that they pray that they could play with him, which they did. This morning, Tucker said, "I'm going to tell _____ (I forgot which boy&

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Our Toad

While working in our yard, Tucker and I found a toad (and later Angela found toad eggs).  All of the wildlife we have seen and heard around our home has been really nice.  We also also been hearing an owl, which we had yet to see.

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Sand Mountain, NV

A few months ago, the kids and I went exploring Sand Mountain with Grandpa Knight's Polaris.  Climbing in the sand was so much fun -- a new experience for the kids.  Carson just kept climbing and climbing until we couldn't see him any more.  That'

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Monster Truck Kids

Before leaving Nevada, we made one last trip to Scheels Sporting goods.  They had a new Jeep / Monster Truck display the kids could play on.

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Celebration Bowl

To celebrate Tucker and Carson passing their Karate tests (in February), the boys and Keith went bowling.

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Tucker's Karate Test

In February, Tucker passed his karate test for a second stripe on his white belt.  Congratulations Tucker!