School Projects
11 May 2009
Emily is 10 years old and she is attending the fourth grade at Kona
Pacific Public Charter School. It is an excellent school for Emily and
she really enjoys it. One of their recent school events is a Circus
Arts Performance. Emily has already walked across glass, learned how
to spin plates, been in a "really big pyramid" and is now practicing
walking on stilts. Of course the school teaches all the typical
English, math and other subjects but Circus Arts is by far the most fun.
The school didn't have enough of stilts so we made a couple pairs so
Emily could practice at home. The first pair was far too large for
Emily but is perfect for Daddy. The second pair is more Emily sized
and Emily did a lot of the work making them too. If you visit the
farm, and Emily is home at the time, just ask and you can try walking
around on the stilts too.
Sarah is 14 and in the eighth grade. The public charter school that
Emily is going to does not have a junior high or high school so we're
homeschooling Sarah through Oak Meadow.
In our opinion, the local high school is not a valid option for Sarah but
homeschooling has been going great.
As a recent homework project for Sarah I locked some chocolate Poptarts
in a box and gave her a puzzle for the combination. Are you smart
enough to figure out the combination? Here's a hint: for science
class, Sarah was recently learning about how satellites transmit
television signals. And another hint: a couple weeks ago in math
Sarah was learning about binary and hexadecimal. Being an ex-computer
game programmer I couldn't resist the urge to throw the two lessons
together. Sarah is also reading The Hobbit for literature class but I
didn't think to throw that into the puzzle too, I should have.
In case you can't read the note on the box, it says:
| x | Right |
| 2x | Left |
| x/3 | Right |
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| x = |
46 C9 49 46
49 49 E6 00 |
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