These are some photos from some algebra work Luke and I are doing. We are using Henri Picciotto's Algebra text (with lots of ideas and problems from James Tanton and AoPS). His website is here:
https://www.mathed.page/manipulatives/alhs/index.html
Chance's birthday always seems to come during Finals Week at Berkeley and we haven't been able to celebrate his birthday properly on his actual birthday for the last few years now. This year was even worse, since he was down in Long Beach to judge a debate tournament on the 6th, which is a pretty sad way to celebrate your birthday, right? And then he had papers to write and exams to take and so we didn't see him until the weekend of the 19th/20th. He had an exam until 10pm Friday night, so came home Saturday early afternoon.
It was an ordinary day...John and Jack got back from work/class early, so John and I headed to RiteAid to pick up some raw shea butter cream and other incidentals. On the way back, Jack texted us the following: "Hey, saving a bit of money on tuition. I got a Regents' and Chancellors scholarship for 2500$/year for two years". Not such an ordinary day after all, this is a REALLY big deal!
Luke and Jack showing off their haircuts and Norman too. And then where you can find Norman sleeping for most of the day when it isn't nice outside.
Spam, nori (dried seaweed for making sushi), sugar, chili sauce, vinegar and rice. What kind of recipe would use all of these ingredients? Spam Sushi, apparently! Luke had asked if he could get some Spam at Safeway a few days ago, but I didn't know this was the diabolical recipe he had in mind. So, he cooked the Spam, dressed with it the Siracha sauce (the red chili sauce) and vinegar/sugar, put it on top of some rice and then wrapped the whole concoction with plastic and put it in the fridge. He said it was delicious.
So, this prom was started up a few years ago by a mom who thought homeschoolers should get to have a prom as well. I think it started when Chance and Jack were still homeschooling, but they had no interest in attending (Chance could have gone to Logan's prom, but never evinced an interest in that either). However, my youngest is a different story, when friends of his told they were going and asked if he were interested in getting a limo together for a group outing, he said "Yes".
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Chance called me to let me know that he was offered a summer internship working at the Nuclear Policy Working Group here in Berkeley. He's been a member of this group for the last 18 months or so on a volunteer basis, but his internship will be paid and many more hours than his volunteer work.
I don't have any pictures yet (they are on John's phone), but here's the email from Coach:
Nice surge in the third and fourth innings last night! Officially we won 8-7, although we were just about to finish with a six run inning, getting us to a 13-7 in my book. The Bash Bros coach and umpires proposed ending the game as it was becoming difficult to accurately pitch and we did not want any more injuries.
Beto was robbed of his RBI...so he'll lead us off next game to finish the job.
See you tonight to work on our snap on the bases.
¡Vamos Atléticos!
Luke had a craving for homemade chicken dumplings, so he made some! With a little help from older brother, of course. Ground chicken, lots of ginger and garlic, green onion and wonton wrappers. I didn't get a picture of the dumplings after cooking, but they were yummy after the boys figured out the correct cooking technique. They even made a dipping sauce to go with them!
