Ruby on July 12th, 2009

Image by !!sahrizvi!! via Flickr A majority of schools in North America, and many in other jurisdictions too, run on a ten month calendar that leaves students with the two summer months free.  While no doubt a lot of our kids are happy for the… Read more

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Ruby on March 31st, 2008

Please take some time in the next week or so to revisit my roundup of commercial math programs. You can access it through the orange Math 1 tab at the top of your screen. I’ve updated some of the material, and will be adding new curricula to the… Read more

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Ruby on March 17th, 2008

A few little bits of homeschool news from the web: Miss Maggie has closed down the Old Fashioned Education user’s group, effective 13 March 2008. The OFE web site is still available to you, though, with a whole ton of great resources for… Read more

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Ruby on March 13th, 2008

I check on my blog stats more or less regularly. It’s interesting to see which entries are getting read, what links people are clicking, and also what brought folks to my blog. Today when I looked into the search engine terms I was saddened. Not… Read more

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Ruby on February 27th, 2008

I came upon an old recording this morning of Johnny Cash singing a childhood favourite of mine. Perhaps this is a song you sang as a child too: My Grandfather’s clock was too large for the shelf, So it stood ninety years on the floor. It was taller… Read more

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