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		<title>Signs of Spring.</title>
		<link>http://tinderbox.homeschooljournal.net/2010/03/17/signs-of-spring/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Mar 2010 15:34:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tinderbox</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[nature study]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Alex is obsessed with the Tinker Bell movie right now, thanks to our nanny, who lent her a copy. As Disney movies go, it could be a lot worse (&#8220;Is this really going to be about the dignity of the proletariat?&#8221; I asked Michael early on, and the answer turned out to be &#8220;yes&#8221;), but [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cardinal directions.</title>
		<link>http://tinderbox.homeschooljournal.net/2010/02/12/cardinal-directions/</link>
		<comments>http://tinderbox.homeschooljournal.net/2010/02/12/cardinal-directions/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Feb 2010 02:13:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tinderbox</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For our final day with Katy and the Big Snow, we went back down to the block city Alex created in the basement, bringing along some little dolls and animals. Katy features maps and compass directions prominently in both the text and the illustrations. I drew a correctly oriented compass rose on the basement floor. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Emerging from the blizzard.</title>
		<link>http://tinderbox.homeschooljournal.net/2010/02/11/emerging-from-the-blizzard/</link>
		<comments>http://tinderbox.homeschooljournal.net/2010/02/11/emerging-from-the-blizzard/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Feb 2010 01:22:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tinderbox</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[katy and the big snow]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://tinderbox.homeschooljournal.net/?p=116</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Everything went a lot smoother today. Alex says it&#8217;s because she slept better last night. Maybe so.
This morning she and I made pictures of snowy scenes. We drew outdoor scenes with markers on colored paper and then splattered watered-down white poster paint on top to make falling snow. We both enjoyed ourselves. It seems to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Snow, snow, snow.</title>
		<link>http://tinderbox.homeschooljournal.net/2010/02/10/snow-snow-snow/</link>
		<comments>http://tinderbox.homeschooljournal.net/2010/02/10/snow-snow-snow/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Feb 2010 03:36:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tinderbox</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[experiments]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[science]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[katy and the big snow]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[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&#8217;t allow Alex to go outside. We did [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Katy, Day 2.</title>
		<link>http://tinderbox.homeschooljournal.net/2010/02/09/katy-day-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Feb 2010 22:47:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tinderbox</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[social studies]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://tinderbox.homeschooljournal.net/?p=107</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In Katy and the Big Snow, essential city services are paralyzed by the snowstorm. They need Katy to dig them out so that they can perform their functions: the fire department needs to put out a fire, the doctor needs to get a patient to the hospital, the water department needs to fix a broken [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Alex and the Big Snow.</title>
		<link>http://tinderbox.homeschooljournal.net/2010/02/08/alex-and-the-big-snow/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Feb 2010 03:58:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tinderbox</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[language arts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[writing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[katy and the big snow]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://tinderbox.homeschooljournal.net/?p=102</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;re snowed in.
Over the weekend, we got more than two feet of snow, the most ever recorded in one snowfall in Baltimore. Tomorrow, the National Weather Service is predicting that we&#8217;ll get hit with another 10-20 inches. It could be a long time before we can go any further than the garden with the kids. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Reading update.</title>
		<link>http://tinderbox.homeschooljournal.net/2010/01/17/98/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Jan 2010 04:36:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tinderbox</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Alex&#8217;s plan to practice reading every day for a month worked out pretty well. I&#8217;d say we managed near-daily practice for about five weeks; since then it&#8217;s trailed off to about two or three times a week. In those five weeks, she did manage to make the leap from being a nonreader (or &#8220;emergent reader,&#8221; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Five in a Row practice week: Recap and review.</title>
		<link>http://tinderbox.homeschooljournal.net/2010/01/08/five-in-a-row-practice-week-recap-and-review/</link>
		<comments>http://tinderbox.homeschooljournal.net/2010/01/08/five-in-a-row-practice-week-recap-and-review/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Jan 2010 19:34:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tinderbox</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[policy & planning]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[madeline]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday I got my grant application in to NIH, so now I have time to post a wrap-up of our Five in a Row practice week with Madeline and my impressions of the curriculum now that I&#8217;ve tried it out.

I enjoyed the experience of immersing our family in one book and one set of topics [...]]]></description>
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		<title>FIAR practice week:  Day 4.</title>
		<link>http://tinderbox.homeschooljournal.net/2010/01/04/fiar-practice-week-day-four/</link>
		<comments>http://tinderbox.homeschooljournal.net/2010/01/04/fiar-practice-week-day-four/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Jan 2010 04:17:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>michael</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[art]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Posted by Michael
Our subject for the fourth day was &#8220;Art&#8221;.The plan was to find some landmarks shown in Madeline (such as the Louvre, the Eiffel Tower, Notre Dame &#8212; see this tour guide for all eight places), match them up with pictures, and then go on to talk about how an artist&#8217;s drawing might not [...]]]></description>
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		<title>FIAR practice week: Day 5</title>
		<link>http://tinderbox.homeschooljournal.net/2010/01/03/fiar-practice-week-day-5/</link>
		<comments>http://tinderbox.homeschooljournal.net/2010/01/03/fiar-practice-week-day-5/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Jan 2010 03:44:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tinderbox</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://tinderbox.homeschooljournal.net/?p=89</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I know this is only the fourth day you&#8217;re seeing, but today was our last day of our Five in a Row practice run. Michael is still planning to write up and post yesterday&#8217;s art lesson, while I go ahead and post about today.
Our subject on the fifth day was &#8220;Applied Math.&#8221; Five in a [...]]]></description>
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