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October 1st - October 28th, 2012

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Watched
Let's Play videos - Basement Collection, Braid, Minecraft, Minecraft Mods, Papa's Tacoria,  - YouTube
2008 Parham Family Slideshow & Music Video - DVD
Vi Hart videos - Doodle Music, A Song About a Circle Constant, What's Up with Noises?, and What Was Up with Pythagoras? - YouTube
Pucca - Netflix
Lore In One Minute videos - YouTube
Mythbusters - Netflix
Smosh Pit Weekly - YouTube
Eureka - Netflix
www.homestarrunner.com
Dear Dracula - Hotel TV
Scooby Doo - Hotel TV
Adventure Time - Hotel TV
M.A.D. TV - Hotel TV
Regular Show - Hotel TV
The Troop - Netflix
Vlog Brother videos - Top 10 Animal Power Moves - YouTube
Terra Nova - Netflix
LEGO 365 Slideshow - Blog
Lost - Netflix
Psych - Netflix
Indie Game the Movie - Netflix
What's Invisible? More Than You Think - YouTube

Played
Little Big Planet 2 (LBP2) - PS3
Bad Piggies - KF
Minecraft - Computer/iPad
TNT Robots - Online
Castle Keep - Tile-based Board Game
Blocks
Skywire VIP Shuffle & other www.nitrome.com games - Online
Cooking Mama - 3DS
Electric Box - Online
LEGO Builder Game - Online
Angry Birds - KF
Doodle Train - iPad
Aqueduct - iPad
Completed Level in Aqueduct
Read
Ranger Rick - Magazine
Ask! - Magazine
NatGeo Kids - Magazine
LEGO Club - Magazine
GameInformer - Magazine
www.XKCD.com

Researched
Hexaflexagons and Martin Gardner
The Scoville Scale
Habanero and Ghost Peppers
Scoville Rating Scale of Peppers/Capsaicin

Discussed
Various different types of sided dice (and how certain numbers of sides can't exist) - polyhedral dice
Rolling Pin Rods
'chalking it up' vs. chalk
Concepts of Time
Geodes


Broken Geodes
Wrote
Notes, plans, and schematics for video game designs
Journaling
Math puzzles and games
1x2x18=54

Listened
NPR in the car
Science Friday - NPR

Created/Built
Drawing - KF
LBP2 - characters and levels
Titles for NES-type games E's remaking in LBP2

Went/Community
Java House
Brooklyn, NY
Manhattan, New York City, NY
Chinatown, NYC, NY
Sheraton Hotel, Brooklyn, NY
Forsyth Park, Chinatown, NYC, NY
Fairtown Trading Inc. (Asian Grocer), Chinatown
Natalie's Bakery Inc. (Asian Bakery), Chinatown
Middletown (Harrisburg), PA
Best Western Plus Harrisburg Airport Inn & Suites
Whole Foods

Forsyth Park & Playground, Chinatown

Health/PE/Safety
Outside Free Play
Walking
Dancing
Tried a lychee smoothie and lychee gummies in Chinatown
Discussed safely walking around crowded busy city streets
Lychee fruit gummies

Other
Helped babysit our 2yr old friend Mabel
Explored and broke open geodes
Researched, discussed, and celebrated National Flexagon Day by watching Vi Hart videos pertaining to hexaflexagons (Hexaflexagons, Hexaflexagons 2, Hexaflexagon Safety, and Flex Mex) and making several of our own hexaflexagons
Happy Hexaflexagations!
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Location: Independent Community Freeschool, Pittsburgh, PA

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