And here is a backlog of pics from our July. Jimmy took two classes at the Center for Talent Development at NWU, one on pyramids and another on polygons. He really had so much fun. The video is Jimmy on the last day of the pyramids class, where there was an expo featuring all the stuff the kids did. Jimmy is describing how the pyramid he built is one of the smaller structures in front of the three pyramids at Giza.
The downside is that his interest in Ancient Egypt prompted me to reinstall an old PC game called Pharoah, which is a SimCity building game where you build a town (and eventually, pyramids). I'd be embarrassed to admit how many hours Jim and I spent playing this game back in the late 90's . . . Anyway, Jimmy is now obsessed with it too--in particular with finding ways to make the huts he builds for the people turn into fancier homes. So he builds chickpea farms and juggling schools and temples to Osiris. And he checks to see what his unemployment rate is. And he talks about building enough granarys to store the harvest, and enough bazaars to distribute the food . . . It's just insane, but he's having a blast.
And here is a backlog of pics from our July. Jimmy took two classes at the Center for Talent Development at NWU, one on pyramids and another on polygons. He really had so much fun. The video is Jimmy on the last day of the pyramids class, where there was an expo featuring all the stuff the kids did. Jimmy is describing how the pyramid he built is one of the smaller structures in front of the three pyramids at Giza.
The downside is that his interest in Ancient Egypt prompted me to reinstall an old PC game called Pharoah, which is a SimCity building game where you build a town (and eventually, pyramids). I'd be embarrassed to admit how many hours Jim and I spent playing this game back in the late 90's . . . Anyway, Jimmy is now obsessed with it too--in particular with finding ways to make the huts he builds for the people turn into fancier homes. So he builds chickpea farms and juggling schools and temples to Osiris. And he checks to see what his unemployment rate is. And he talks about building enough granarys to store the harvest, and enough bazaars to distribute the food . . . It's just insane, but he's having a blast.
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