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March 13, 2008

I may know these people

"leave education to WHOM?"

and this is the idiotic article to which they are responding:
"There I said it: Leave Teaching To The Professionals"

(edit: why can't I remember simple html without looking it up? Sigh)

June 19, 2007

Ravenclaws unite! er, and Gryffendors


Which Hogwarts house will you be sorted into?

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I'm
a Gryffindor!

N got Gryff, his second was Slyth. S and I both are Ravenclaw.

April 18, 2007

Things we think are important

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Also planned for that day:

January 08, 2007

Literary Analysis: Move over Ebert & Roeper

The kids did some literary analysis today. Here is N's, with S's to follow:

N's books: Erec Rex: The Dragon's Eye by Kaza Kingsley, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling, Eragon by Christopher Paolini, and Midnight for Charlie Bone by Jenny Nimmo

S's books*: The Witch's Buttons, by Ruth Chew, Night of the Ninjas (Magic Tree House #5) by Mary Pope Osborne, Anne of Avonlea by L.M. Montgomery, and Magic or Not? by Edward Eager.

* S read all of the books by herself except Anne and Magic or Not, which Daddy read, but she *can* read Magic or Not by herself without help. Anne has some tricky vocab, but hey, she's only six. :-D

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