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Garden Update

July 9, 2015

Look at the produce.  There are peas

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Beans will be coming soon

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lots of lettuce

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the watermelon

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ghost peppers are forming

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Carrots are coming along

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and so are the bush beans

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There’s even a flower on the cucumber

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radishes are done.  They’re blooming now.

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Here’s the size of the carrots.  Not ready yet.

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come sample the produce if you’re in the area.

Flourishing Garden

June 24, 2015

       

Preparing for Exams

June 10, 2015

    

They’re getting stir crazy in here! 6 days left until exams.

New Sprouts

May 21, 2015

today we see the first signs of cucumbers

  

Math partay

May 21, 2015

  

We’re working on quadratics and eating pie….a perfect math partay.

Origami Math

May 21, 2015

  

It turns out that if you join the midpoints of any quadrilateral, you will create a parallelogram.  Sometimes that’s also a rhombus, rectangle or square, but it is ALWAYS a parallelogram, and that’s pretty neat.

Similar Triangles

May 21, 2015

we measured the heights of trees and signs today using mirrors and shadows and similar triangles.

     

We verified answers when we could.   

Pizza Day

May 20, 2015

              

Garden progress

May 19, 2015

      

Pizza Dough

May 19, 2015

2tsp yeast
1 tsp sugar
1/2 cup warm water

stir and let the mixture get foamy

3.5 cup flour
1 tsp salt

put into a bowl, make a well, and pour in the yeast mix and the following liquids.

1 cup warm water
1/2 cup oil

knead well on a floured surface.  Cover and let rise.  We’re letting it rise over night in the fridge