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Math Mondays from Makezine

May 31, 2018May 31, 2018 head cephalopod 0 Comments

  Link: https://makezine.com/tag/MathMonday/ I recently discovered Math Mondays from Makezine, which combines two things I think are required to make a

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Curriculum for Health, PreK-12

April 5, 2017April 3, 2017 head cephalopod 0 Comments

Health is one of those vague areas that is both broad and awkward. And how do you decide what to

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Cooking school for kids: Onions and garlic

March 10, 2017 head cephalopod 0 Comments

This week: French Onion Soup and Cheesy Garlic Bread So I started looking for a curriculum framework for this cooking

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Avast, the briny sea

September 30, 2016 head cephalopod 0 Comments

Grilling boneless chicken breasts , Rule 7: ALWAYS brine them first. Not even negotiating on this one. Brine, brine brine.

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Gack.

March 9, 2010 head cephalopod 0 Comments

February sucks. (Which is why it’s particularly nice that it’s now March.) Why? Because as far as the school year

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Hippies

June 9, 2009June 9, 2009 head cephalopod 0 Comments

Pookus recently finished a month-long book project wherein each student developed a short story, illustrated it, and then pasted it

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Not From Around Here, Are You?

February 25, 2009May 2, 2009 head cephalopod 0 Comments

Stuffed animals are universal (more or less), right? But here is a classic example of Why We Aren’t Quite Average.

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Unburdened by tact

February 20, 2009 head cephalopod 0 Comments

Why do I love 5-year-olds? Because they are generally unburdened by the constraints of tact. Oh, to be an age

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Decompression

February 9, 2009February 9, 2009 head cephalopod 0 Comments

Well, when the new semester started up The Boy and I started off with a schedule where we sat down

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Life in the Uninformed Lane

January 10, 2009February 20, 2009 head cephalopod 0 Comments

I live out by the left elbow of a leftist county, located in an equally leftist state. (Okay, to be

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