a homeschooling blog about Simon, a young mathematician and programmer, and his little sister Neva. Visit https://simontiger.com
A scoop of what Simon builds in just a couple of hours, now in a set of short videos because the photos don’t suffice anymore. … Continue reading His biggest passion in all its illuminated rotating glory
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
And now I’m going to solve all of these, Mom!
Simon doing math while Neva is getting a check-up
Simon has made a table of how to calculate the areas of various shapes. The ellipse one made him especially happy: πr x h/2 Which one is r, I asked, and which … Continue reading Reading the formulas
Simon loved the Japanese waterfall and the poem about singing water. He wanted to climb into the waterfall to see how it works. Neva liked being kissed by the silent … Continue reading The Botanic Garden
Simon has started his weekly tennis lessons on Wednesday. The atmosphere at the club is very relaxed and the groups are small – 4 kids. There was no connection with … Continue reading Where Tennis Begins
Tomorrow it will be a month since we moved to Belgium to homeschool. I was anxious in the beginning. Even though deep in my heart I knew it was the … Continue reading One month
Yesterday in bath: Mom, I’ve made a discovery! That two and a half 1/5’s is 1/2!! *** I’m explaining what symmetry vs asymmetry is: Draw an imaginary line in the middle … Continue reading Chitchat
Simon having evening tea: Mom! Do you know there are more seconds in an hour than there are minutes in a day?
Geeks out of the box 