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Val
loves receiving e-mails.
Tell him how you like his page!
Val@AllOurBoys.com
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since 12-27-06
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 November 2005
Val continues to enjoy school. He is a part of the Sowers Middle
School Yearbook production team. Val enjoys taking pictures and is
becoming quite a good photographer. In school continues to excel in math
and make great strides in English. After school Val is on a basketball
team. They have just begun practicing together and Val is looking forward
to starting to play some games. Val has also been learning how to roller
blade and skate board.
September 2005
Val is delighted to be back in school. He is especially proud to be one of
only a few 7th graders in an 8th grade math class! Val's English skills
have really advanced as well. He is a very motivated student and we are
looking forward to watching Val make continued academic and social
progress throughout this new school year.
Val had a great summer. This was his first full summer in America. With
his super sun tan and his long blond hair, Val sure looks like he has
lived in Huntington Beach his whole life. During the last two weeks of
summer Val learned how to surf. He even received the "Waver of the Week"
award on the final week at Surf Camp. Apparently he and Alex Daniel spent
the entire six hours each day at camp in the ocean. Both Val and Alex
Daniel are now quite good surfers and hope to join the surf team at Sowers
Middle School.
 
 
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June 2005
Val is officially a 7th grader now! Its hard to believe he is in the
middle year of middle school! Emotionally, Val has grown up so much this
year. Academically Val has made great gains too, especially in math. Even
the photos show a big difference in his physical appearance since he
arrived from Russia a little less than a year ago. Val almost doesn't look
like a shy and studious Harry Potter anymore, we think he looks more like
an athletic and active Southern Californian skateboarder now.
Val has been a great help lately. He is really supportive of Alex Daniel's
transition to middle school. Val has taken the time to introduce Alex
Daniel to his friends and to show Alex Daniel around the campus. Watching
Val with his new brother we can see much he has matured so much since he
joined our family last year.
 Val is getting ready for a summer full of camp programs. Val will be
participating in four weeks of Junior Lifeguard Program.
Val is excited that his swimming skills have improved enough to be in the
lifeguard program.
He will also learn to
surf along with Alex Daniel while they participate in two weeks of
Surfing
Camp.
Finally, Val will
spend a week at Sports
Camp where he will focus his days on improving
his skills in his favorite sport, basketball. We think that by the end of
summer Val will be so tan and muscular no one at school will recognize him!
Kavin, Val, Nikolai, Sergei go to Catalina with Grandma Sue -
Summer 2005
 
 
 
Val & Grandpa Jim |
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Shapes
Val Silcock
& Dave Nachmanoff
June 1, 2005 |
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Chorus:
Geometry is fun, with its angles and its shapes
Geometry is fun, I think it’s really great
Geometry is fun
To find the area of a triangle
Here’s what you do
Multiply the base and height together
Then divide what you get by two
(Repeat Chorus)
They say the circle is a perfect
We can find the area if we try
Multiply the radius by itself
Then multiply that number by pi
Bridge:
Next to math I like like sports best of all
With geometry I can find the volume of the ball
(Repeat Chorus)
We can find the volume of a cone
It’s not too hard if we dare
Multiply the height by one-third, and by pi
Then multiply the radius squared
(Repeat Chorus)
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To Play A Better Game
Val Silcock & Dave Nachmanoff
June 2, 2005 |
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Just a year ago, I was not that good at all
I practiced by myself, always playing basketball
But I met a friend who helped me
He taught me how to shoot
Now even from the half court
I can swish it through the hoop
Chorus:
Practicing alone is just not the same
Working together, we play a better game
Just a few months later, I joined up with a team
Out there on the court, it was almost like dream
Just like on the Lakers
We have players from every land
We may speak different languages
But we all understand
(Repeat Chorus)
Now I help my brother
Just like my friend helped me
He always wants to shoot
But I say passing is the key
Now I ride my bike
With a basketball in tow
Finding friends to play with
Everywhere I go
(Repeat Chorus)
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 Val
(12)
has
been home for two weeks now! It is hard to tell he hasn't lived in
California his whole life. Almost every time we see Val he has his board shorts on and is carrying his
basketball. Val could play basketball all day and will stop to ask
anyone to play basketball with him---although his favorite one-on-one
basketball games are with his Grandpa Jim! Val also loves visiting
his grandparents' house and asks to go for a visit everyday. Val
will start as a 6th grader at Sowers Middle School on September
7th.
 JULY
2004:
Val
was
adopted on July 19th in Moscow and is now officially a member of the
Silcock family. Due to his multiple medical needs Val has spent most of his life living in Russian
orphanages or hospitals. He has wanted to have his own family
forever. Luckily Val has had many charity groups supporting him
and searching for an adoptive family. We feel blessed to have been selected
to be Val's forever family.
Between trips to
Russia we were able to write daily e-mails to the boys. It was great
that the orphanage staff translated these e-mails. The daily contact
allowed us all to get to know each other. It also helped the time
pass quicker as we waited to bring the boys home. Here is one of
Val's e-mails...
 It is great that we
will take boat trip. And Vanya- will he be able to climb the ship? Who
will translate for us? I will take all the addresses for my friends. I
am so happy that you are happy that I have friends! Yesterday one boy
here - Rustam - had his birthday. Today, I will visit my friend Petya
again. He is a maths scientist and he is 25. I know him for 7 years
already. Is it hot in Mexico now? The trip - what it will be? Two days
to there , 1 day there and 2 days back? Or 1 day each way and 3 days
there?
Do you think it is
better we will choose things ourselves? I would like to go with Grandma
Sue and choose things for myself if that could be possible? But I am so
thankful to my granny and to you for you are so caring!
It is very hot and
sometimes very rainy in Moscow now. Are there real live
pirates in Las Vegas? I will fight with them! Yesterday I read Vanya the letter you sent. He was very happy. Today his grandma Gayla
will take a reply from him.
Thank you so much!
With big love
I miss you a lot
It is 5 days left
and it is so loong tiime!!
In 2004 year
Val was featured in the Moscow Times. He won a look-a-like
contest for the characters in the Harry Potter series! This was
the first picture we ever saw of Val. Until we actually met him
in person we thought he hair was black! Later he laughed while he
explained that his hair was dyed for the contest!
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