Me: ok time for your 20 minutes of playing before bed.  Eli: no I get, like, 144 hours! That would be 3 no 4 days, no wait (he whispers and counts on his fingers for about 40 seconds) – Mommy: it’s 6 days! Me: Wow! How did you figure that out? Eli: Easy – Because […]

the kids did a unit on “broken fairy tales” as part of their writing curriculum – they studied fairy tales and then went off to write ones of their own that deviated from the typical genre 🙂 unfortunately, i’ve tried and tried to get the pages to load in order in the gallery below, but […]

Below are samples from their poetry unit, describing animals, fruit, and, of course, spaceships

Eli is now known as the class mathematician. He is just mad for math, and is always working on a new equation. This week it has been “10 to the power of ten, multiplied by 0, plus 1”  and “7 +7 – 14 +1000 =” … He’s a natural, I tell you. His teacher gave […]

a few excerpts from Scott and Eli’s conversation this evening about the leprechaun hunt tomorrow at school: Scott: Well, you know leprechaun’s are kind of hard to find. Eli: yea! and they’re really TRICKY! Scott: That’s right. What will you do with the pot of gold if you find it? Will you share with me? […]

Eli’s favorite video of late is “Schoolhouse Rock” – a series of about 50 educational animated pieces on grammar, science, multiplication, american history, money, etc. Being the mathematician he is, his favorite is multiplication, and among those, his favorite is the one on Zero. As he was watching it the other day, he announced, “Zeros […]

Eliot is a mathematician and smitten beyond belief. here’s a sampling of recent writings (the love notes go into the school mail system!)