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

Miquon math.

Someone on our local homeschooling list was selling off the first two Miquon math workbooks, the Lab Sheet Annotations, and the First Grade Diary for $15. I decided to buy it, figuring that it was worth $15 just to get a sense of how Miquon really works. (They’re stingy with the online samples.)
Here’s pretty much [...]

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Loot!

We went to our first “curriculum fair” last night. I’d describe it as more of a giant homeschooling flea market – there were a few curriculum vendors, but many more tables where families were unloading their used curricula, books, games, toys, resources, software…
Next time we’ll get a babysitter. Alex alternated between grabbing random things and [...]

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