Hugo Estrada's House of Wonder

Crunchy Granola Academy
So after almost 2 months and a half, I finally have the time to actually interact with my children.

Today I did math with Isabella again, I attempting to teach Alexander to read, and then I worked with Isabella on her homework. Then we practiced the violin. Isabella showed a surprising interest in Old Time music, and what finally got her practicing violin was her desire to learn how to play Boil Them Cabbage Down, which I am learning as well.

Isabella did two exercises in math which is good. At some point she decided that she was bad it, which really angered me because she is actually quite good at it, but hopefully in the next month she will be back to normal on that front.

Old Time Music

So after working a lot over the weekend, I decided to buy myself a present, and I got a book with Old Time fiddle music. At home there are three sources for interest in this music: interest in folk music in general mainly the easy listening pop stuff from the 60s, but some other stuff as well, my interest in contra dancing, which I barely ever do, and Railroad Tycoon.

So now I have about 60 tunes to learn. I doubt I will get through that anytime soon, so I won't buy another music book retail until I finish reading that one.

In any case, I am going to have a lot of fun with it. And it seems that Isabella likes it too.

Chess, Hebrew, Torah

These have taken a back seat right now. I will get them back on track once everything returns to normal in the following weeks.

Erlang, Cobol and Tech project

Same thing. Although there are these really cool android classes over the internet that I have been taken. I must do the task to really learned them though. Then I will create a schedule for the rest.

Exercising

That really took a back seat, and now I am all achy. I had to go to the doctor today on that. That I must start working on because I must protect my health. Let's see how it works out.

Bella dictating:

I was trying to clean the room with my Daddy. It was not fun at first. But then we had a little fun, and we even had a little star gazing. Finally, the room seemed spotless. It looks dear. No toys, cloths, or books on the floor. I even did a tiny bit of dusting.

The room looked great.

I was scared at first, but then it came out really clean!

I discovered that I was a super neatnik!

I was looking down the front page, and I saw that Isabella, our proud student and Crunchy Granola Academy, has more finished hobby projects than I. It seems that I better start doing more home coding :S

This one, like the last one, was done all by herself. She also made the graphics. Now that she is on vacation, the no programming after 7 restriction has been lifted.

Oh, and scratch is awesome.

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Here is another beautiful project from Bella.

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This is the first program that Isabella did pretty much all by herself. :)

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Bella did her first programming tutorial tonight! This is her work; a scratch project. I am so proud of her. Crunchy Granola Academy seeks to give a sound technology education to its students!

To stop it, click on the red stop sign on the top right. To start it again, click on the green flag.

I got a Spacewarp 20 that I bought at a yard sale about 3 years ago for $2. Isabella at the time was really interested in gum ball machines. I believed that the reason why she liked it was because she liked seeing the ball falling down the spiral. So when I found this toy, I decided that it would be a good substitution.

This is a video of the 5000 model, but it looks very similar to the 20.

Today we had a successful chess lesson with Alexander and Isabella. Alexander helped to put the pieces on the board, mirroring what Isabella was doing. We played a few games of pawn games. Next time, we are going to delve into lesson two!

Bella made this snowflake with knex. I like Knex a lot; sometimes, I like them more than legos.