Water Xylophone
This video shows Simon play the Happy Birthday tune on his self-made “water xylophone”. In the following video you can see him actually make the xylophone meticulously checking every tone. … Continue reading Water Xylophone
Category: Milestones
Formulas to save the fingers
Simon wrote these two “formulas” to explain how time (T1) works in one second (S2) of fast and slow motion film. S1 is “sneller” (Dutch for “faster”) T2 is “trager” … Continue reading Formulas to save the fingers
Rendezvous with Jupiter
Tonight was a big night: Simon’s first visit to a real observatory. He had not really been doing any astronomy in the past few months so we were wondering how … Continue reading Rendezvous with Jupiter
Seven times more
Simon takes his staccato’s and forte’s seriously. He has been training harder than ever saying his teacher often asks him to repeat the same piece up to 7 times. It … Continue reading Seven times more
More surprises!
Simon talks to himself a lot. In English. Since recently Neva has been trying to join him. They get a special kick out of plaing out the tackiest YouTube unwrapping … Continue reading More surprises!
Simon made a Magformers S.T.E.A.M Master Set castle
Simon made this blog entry: What is this? That’s a castle. It doesn’t look like it, because that’s the area. You can watch this video to see if that’s a … Continue reading Simon made a Magformers S.T.E.A.M Master Set castle
Russian Grammar Game
Russian grammar has kicked off easily with these awesome cards (a set of 6 boxes, 48 cards per box).Explained prefixes, roots, suffixes and endings while learning about the spelling of … Continue reading Russian Grammar Game
Math is in the air
Playing outside also means doing lots of math. Yesterday on the beach Simon played something like nine different games with Grandmom. All those games (which he gave funny Russian names … Continue reading Math is in the air
First day at the gifted club
Today was Simon’s first day at GEMZ, a weekly charter class for gifted kids. They will meet for 2,5 hours every Tuesday and every time will be doing something different … Continue reading First day at the gifted club
Musical formulas for supper
I think I’m beginning to understand why Simon enjoys music theory so much. It was long past what is supposed to be bedtime as he went on noting the “Happy … Continue reading Musical formulas for supper
Experimenting with the Gauss formula
And now I’m going to solve all of these, Mom!
Was it here that Mom was planning to have her painting room?
Simon: I didn’t use to be as much into sports before, you know. Now I tennis. And I go on the trampoline a little bit every day. (Had his second … Continue reading Was it here that Mom was planning to have her painting room?
Geeks out of the box 