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Friday Food Festival--Kids Cooking Edition!
Okay, folks, last time we talked about some general guidelines for kids in the kitchen, and we gave some specific tasks for the preschool crowd. The basic things to avoid for that crowd were sharps, heat, and things wit… -
Friday Food Festival--Cooking With Kids Edition
One of my enduring disappointments with "kids'" cookbooks is that they invariably focus on how to prepare foods that kids will think are fun to eat rather than on how to teach kids how to cook. The dessert section is al… -
From the Files of a Tricksy Mama: How To Teach Literary Theory On The Sly
Once you get past the elementary school level, your success as an educator is highly correlated with your capacity for trickery. (This is particularly true if your students are afflicted with Y-Chromosome Syndrome.) Ad… -
Homeschooling Redux
I'm a bona fide homeschooler again. I've started Theo on some phonics-based readers (A Beka Basic Phonics Readers--very nicely done series), since all the electronic gizmos his grandparents bought him have all but taugh… -
More Sci-Fi plans . . .
Although I'm requiring Isaac to write (something, anything) every day, I don't have any clear goals in mind with regard to his writing. And thus I don't have a clear idea of what he should be writing. (He, of course, d… -
Summer School
Well, after a brief break, just long enough to remind ourselves that we will get sick of each other if Isaac doesn't have Something To Do all summer, we've started summer homeschool. It's a fairly light schedule--about t… -
Tweet Tweet
The birds are flocking to our feeders, and everyone here is having fun identifying them. We have two species of woodpecker that come regularly. This one is a red-bellied woodpecker (even though I can only see red on it… -
A New Visitor
This weekend, a pair of birds we'd never seen before came to the bird feeder. Can you help us identify them? They had the same shape as a wren or a nuthatch. We've seen Carolina Wrens and Red-breasted Nuthatches bef… -
WIP Wednesday
I am slightly embarrassed at the content of this post, since all of the Works In Progress I have to report are newly started works. I don't know what to say, other than that I do, from time to time, finish projects. St… -
Breakfast Guest
We had a visitor outside our window this morning for breakfast. He's a house finch. If you'll compare this information page to this shot of his hindquarters: . . . you'll see that he's not a purple finch, which ma…
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