Brand Rhea

Rhea makes it to Quest

Rhea got selected in the Quest Pull-Out program for accelerated learning and she earned herself a shinning new 20” lavender bike.

She celebrated her mini-milestone by riding 11 miles on the Sammamish river trail on Saturday. On Sunday, we got the bikes out again to go to the library and she found 4 Secret Seven  books at 25c a piece! Since I was not carrying cash on me, I took her to the nearest ATM.

“Do you have money in all the banks in the world?” She asked. “No Rhea”, I explained, “All the banks are connected to each other.”

“Even the ones who don’t like each other?” split second question.

It amazes me how her little mind groks the situation, digests the information and zeroes down on what can be the fundamental problem in a system. Quest deserves her.

 

Sammamish River Trail

Rhea, the aeronautical engineer

Rhea built this 250 part helicopter working patient over 8 hours.

Rhea's first tournament win...

Education Hill Tournament, 28th Feb 2009, Horace Mann Elementary, Redmond, WA

 

Round 4, and in her overall 9th tournament game, Rhea came back with the "I won" look in her eyes.

Rockwell did well. 4th place in Grade 1-3 group and 3rd in 4-6 group.

Grade 1-3 , Fourth place trophy                                         Grade 4-6, Third place Trophy

The Norman Rockwell Chess Team

Rhea's first chess tournament

Wilder Tournament, 7th February 2008, Woodenville, WA

 

By 8:30 in the morning, the gymnasium at Wilder's was buzzing with chesslings. Kindergartners to K6 settled around their school tables, wearing school colors. Parents with rolled up camping chair, backpacks with books, laptops, chargers, health food, thermos.  More fathers than mother. Equal number of girl and boy players. Most girls carried either a DS (pink) or a iPod Nano . Most boys carried some kind of a ball. Everybody looked determined.

 

A Swiss league with 5 rounds.  Most kids made it through the 5 hours without getting cranky. Can't say the same thing about the parents though.

 

Rhea lost all her five games. Though she was in high spirit through the end. She came back with a Norman Rockwell Chess club tee, an invaluable tournament experience and will to go to the next one ...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

President's day

Today, Rhea's class held a Presidents Wax Museum with each tiny tot - dressed like a president - reeled out amazing facts about their life and times.

Rhea was Jimmy Carter

 

Other cuties....

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

                                                                                     (Ms. Thome as William Taft)

Rhea's hello world!

Here I am at Snoqualmie plummeting down the slope though falling a couple times...

oh! by the way I had classes first.

my first blog

or Rhea's first blog.`

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I sat besides her, this bleary Sunday morning, as she typed her very first blog.

A day earlier, on the ski lift, I gently prodded her, "L'il girl, can you start thinking about what you are going to write?". Between catching snowflakes on her tongue, she said,  "Papa, I do not want to. I will write it when I write it".

It took took her all of 25 minutes to type the 29 words. She did not take any of my feedback ("Rhea, you were not exactly plummeting" "Are you sure you need an exclamation mark after oh?"). Just typed it out, and looked at me as if saying, "Now send it to the world".

Books on children need to add this to the list of milestones.

 

The accompanying video is over 2 minutes and 18 seconds- certainly 90 seconds too long. Just this one time. To go with unedited text.

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Beat that...

"Who is the best in math in your class, Rhea", I asked her conversationally.

"My teacher", pat came the reply

Rhea rides a marine Humvee

 

The marines came to a local Bartell Drugs offering a ride in a real humvee in exchange for food for needy children.

 

What a deal!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Rhea's (first) Rube Goldberg Machine

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Rhea turns 7

The l'il girl turned seven this week. Her celebration lasted two days with a surprise cake in the school, a visit to Chuck-e-cheese, a dinner at Panda Express (her favorite), a late night show of wall-e, and a party at Cougar Mountain Zoo...

You can click on the photos in this slideshow to read descriptions and comments or enjoy the photos on flickr here. 

 

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