Happenings

Yesterday morning, Donna stopped by and dropped off a couple bags of veggies from her garden.  One bag had 6 large, beautiful green peppers.  I immediately thought about making stuffed peppers even though I'd never made them before.  I searched online for some recipes and went to Aldi's to pick up the rest of the ingredients I needed.  Also, Dakota specifically asked for some muffin mix.  He wanted strawberry, but they only had blueberry.  I got back home and he and I made up the muffins.  He measured things out and mixed it all up.  Those were some yummy muffins!

I love finding new-to-me blogs and websites from homeschooling/unschooling families.  I enjoy the discovering of new ideas for projects or finding a book someone might enjoy or a link to some amazing video.  I found just that video yesterday.  Go HERE and watch and learn.  My life changed.  For real.

At Christmas, Max gave Britney The Lord of the Rings trilogy and The Hobbit.  She picked The Hobbit up the other day and started reading and yesterday began reading it to Dakota.  I absolutely love when she reads aloud.  She puts so much emotion into it.  She does voices and sings and acts things out.  It held The Boy's attention, that's for sure.  I just don't have that power.  She's such a wonderful big sister :)

Back to the stuffed peppers:
It's kind of a long process and I didn't go by a set recipe, but they turned out pretty darn good!
I filled them up with ground beef, brown rice, sauteed mushrooms, onions, garlic, tomato sauce and different seasonings and topped them off with parmesan cheese.  Yummo!

ArithmeTRICK: Your Birth Day

I had bought a copy of Amazing Math With Your Kids at...I can't remember where. Skate Day probably. Anyway, it's full of games and activities to help with math concepts. We haven't used it much, but I picked it up today and this particular activity caught my eye. Bobby had said something the other day about a guy he knew who could figure out the day you were born in his head and I couldn't understand how. But now I know what to do:)

Here's the example they give:

1. Let's say your birthday is September 30, 1970. Let A be the year in which you were born.

A=1970

2. Let B be the day of the year that you were born.

January, March, May, July, August, October, December = 31 days
February = 28 days (29 in leap year)
April, June, September, November = 30 days

So for September 30th, the answer is found like this:
31+28+31+30+31+30+31+31+30=273rd day of the year

B=273

3. Find C: C=(A-1)/4. Leave off the remainder.
C=(1970-1)/4

C=492

4. Find D: D=A+B+C
D= 1970+273+492

D=2735

5. For this step, do not use a calculator. Divide by 7. Notice the remainder.
2735/7 =390 r 5

6. Match the remainder to one of the days of the week below. That is the day you were born.

0 Friday
1 Saturday
2 Sunday
3 Monday
4 Tuesday
5 Wednesday
6 Thursday

So a person born on September 30, 1970 was born on Wednesday.

I checked this with my birthday and it's accurate.

What day were you born?