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Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire. – William Butler Yeats

Snow, snow, snow.

February 10th, 2010 at 10:36pm |

This was our sixth day of being snowed in, and the strain is definitely beginning to show. You can pretty much assume that all the activities I describe here happened before a meltdown or after a meltdown.
There were blizzard conditions all day, so much so that we didn’t allow Alex to go outside. We did [...]

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Electromagnet!

May 28th, 2009 at 9:24pm |

Tonight Uncle Bill came over to make an electromagnet with Alex. They’ve been planning to do this since the day Alex came in with a slinky wrapped around a rectangular block and told us that it was “a pretend electrical magnet. Here’s the magnet, and this spring is the wire for the electric current to [...]

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