a homeschooling blog about Simon, a young mathematician and programmer, and his little sister Neva. Visit https://simontiger.com
We went to Simon and Neva’s native Amsterdam this week where Simon had an appointment to donate his hair to cancer patients. Sub 22! You know, J perm is truly … Continue reading Speed, Looks and Seasonal Baking Update
Tomorrow we are celebrating Sinterklaas, or St.Nicolas’ birthday. It’s the climax of the traditional Dutch gift-giving season embracing the last two weeks of November and the first week of December. … Continue reading St.Nicolas Obsessions
Funny how, even when training some pretty straightforward (and boring) arithmetic or Dutch reading, Simon tries to introduce more complex notions like here, the floor, ceiling and round functions while … Continue reading Looking for math everywhere
Simon’s passion is coding, but he does other things, too. Things like Dutch, because – in case you haven’t noticed – his native language is Dutch. I usually don’t film … Continue reading Dutch grammar
Simon was doing sentence analysis (something that he quite likes), but this time it involved writing (and he hates physical writing). Even though he has been writing since age 3 and … Continue reading I think I’m writing in a fixed width font
Simon’s been doing a whole lot of writing today. First, a birthday letter for Dad. And then Mandarin characters. Those fingers must be aching now!
We have started our Dutch reading sessions (Simon reading to me and discussing the complicated terms/ new vocab) with the beautiful series Levend Verleden (‘Live History’). Simon had already read … Continue reading Live History (and Dutch)
Geeks out of the box 