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Archive for December, 2006

The BIRDS

Posted: Monday, December 4th, 2006 @ 11:04 pm in Family Stuff | No Comments »

When we moved to Delaware several years ago our neighbor advised us to not watch the movie The Birds because, as she claimed, there will be times when the sky and yard are full of birds or the roof will be covered with them.
I love seeing the bird flocks. It is a sure sign […]

Math or turning a weakness into a strength

Posted: Saturday, December 2nd, 2006 @ 10:13 pm in Math | 3 Comments »

SK finished up Singapore’s New Elementary Math 3A yesterday covering Algebra 2, Trigonometry and geometry topics. He had worked through most of this material last spring but when we started back this fall SK was making too many mistakes. Being careless was what he claimed, however I felt […]

Google’s Literacy Project Site

Posted: Friday, December 1st, 2006 @ 5:20 pm in Language Arts | 1 Comment »

This information was forwarded to me by a PS friend-HS’ing Dad. I’ve spent only a little time exploring Google’s new Literacy Project site but so far the book search feature looks really promising, there’s lots of information in the Scholar or rather links to articles regarding literacy (teaching reading, phonemic awareness,….) […]