Solving the Tetris Cube

We got the Tetris Cube for Christmas, and it is still in pieces all over the the basement! I looked up how to solve it, and I thought I'd share it.

Concert Season

Most schools that I know of have winter concerts in December. Someone in their infinite wisdom decided that December was just too full of concerts, so "let's move some of those concerts to January so that December is not too stressful". Well, now our January has been filled with concerts! Nicholas had his school concert this past Monday, Tony had a chamber concert last Tuesday, Nicholas was part of a String Festival this past weekend, and Nicholas' chamber orchestra is performing for his school's board of education meeting. Last but certainly not least, Michael's orchestra will be performing at the end of this month. Whew! Here are a few highlights from Nicholas' concerts:

Here is the program from Nicholas' school concert.

Nicholas is the concertmaster in his 7th grade orchestra.

This is the song "Cakewalk" by Norman Leyden from 'Serenade for Strings'

The orchestra is made up of the best of the string students from 44 different school districts. Nicholas was the only 7th grader chosen from his school. There were about 5 other children from other grade levels selected as well. Nicholas is playing in the first violin section. If you look carefully, you can see him in the middle of this picture.

Our sons' accomplishments

Michael earned his Faith in God square knot award at this week's Pack meeting, as well as his Wolf badge. He is soo proud of himself! and so are we!

Nicholas wrote a song as part of an extra credit assignment for his English class to go along with the book "The Pearl". We also made a video recording of him playing the violin part and me singing, but it would completely embarrass him if I posted it.

We're off to see the Wizard!

Here are just a few of my adorable students. These ten were chosen to be part of the high school's production of "The Wizard of Oz". They couldn't be happier!