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	<description>&#34;The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled.&#34; - Plutarch</description>
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		<title>All cursive, all the time.</title>
		<link>http://tinderbox.homeschooljournal.net/2013/05/16/all-cursive-all-the-time/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 12:10:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Alex is obsessed with cursive. She&#8217;s been tearing through the basic book that&#8217;s languished on the shelf all year (I don&#8217;t value cursive, so it&#8217;s always been optional) and writing her spelling and dictation assignments in a hybrid of cursive &#8230; <a href="http://tinderbox.homeschooljournal.net/2013/05/16/all-cursive-all-the-time/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Cursive and the perfectionist.</title>
		<link>http://tinderbox.homeschooljournal.net/2013/05/09/cursive-and-the-perfectionist/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 May 2013 18:35:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Let me tell you, when a perfectionist starts to learn cursive it is fun times. &#8220;Augh! Look at this y! It&#8217;s horrible! Look at how messed up it is!&#8221; &#8220;No, Alex. I&#8217;m not going to look at your messed up &#8230; <a href="http://tinderbox.homeschooljournal.net/2013/05/09/cursive-and-the-perfectionist/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Wordless (almost) Wednesday</title>
		<link>http://tinderbox.homeschooljournal.net/2013/05/07/wordless-almost-wednesday/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 May 2013 01:43:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tinderbox</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Farm Experience program is going swimmingly.]]></description>
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		<title>Big news&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://tinderbox.homeschooljournal.net/2013/05/06/big-news/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 May 2013 12:22:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m quitting my job this summer. My academic research psychology position just isn&#8217;t making me happy&#8230; to put it mildly. Instead, I&#8217;m going to strike out on my own. Seeing a gap that needs to be filled, I&#8217;ve decided to &#8230; <a href="http://tinderbox.homeschooljournal.net/2013/05/06/big-news/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Looking ahead to third grade.</title>
		<link>http://tinderbox.homeschooljournal.net/2013/05/02/looking-ahead-to-third-grade/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 May 2013 11:43:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tinderbox</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Our new school year starts on June 1st. One of my goals for third grade is that Alex start to take a little more ownership of her education, so I asked her what she would like to accomplish this year. &#8230; <a href="http://tinderbox.homeschooljournal.net/2013/05/02/looking-ahead-to-third-grade/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Soil is a filter.</title>
		<link>http://tinderbox.homeschooljournal.net/2013/04/25/soil-is-a-filter/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Apr 2013 19:43:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tinderbox</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;re studying soil now in earth science, which dovetails nicely with the farm program that I wrote about in my last post. Today the kids spent a surprising amount of time playing on a soil website, watching little animations and &#8230; <a href="http://tinderbox.homeschooljournal.net/2013/04/25/soil-is-a-filter/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
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		<title>Kayam Farm experience!</title>
		<link>http://tinderbox.homeschooljournal.net/2013/04/19/kayam-farm-experience/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Apr 2013 04:45:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tinderbox</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This week the kids started a new activity through the Baltimore Homeschool Community Center: a &#8220;Farm Experience&#8221; at Kayam, an organic farm north of Baltimore that focuses on environmental and Jewish education. (The homeschool program is secular.) For the next &#8230; <a href="http://tinderbox.homeschooljournal.net/2013/04/19/kayam-farm-experience/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Latin and the little brother.</title>
		<link>http://tinderbox.homeschooljournal.net/2013/04/18/latin-and-the-little-brother/</link>
		<comments>http://tinderbox.homeschooljournal.net/2013/04/18/latin-and-the-little-brother/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Apr 2013 03:52:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tinderbox</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sorry for the break in posting. I&#8217;ve had a lot going on, which hopefully I&#8217;ll be able to post about soon, and Alex has not had a lot going on &#8211; she had two weeks off for spring break, including &#8230; <a href="http://tinderbox.homeschooljournal.net/2013/04/18/latin-and-the-little-brother/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Alex&#8217;s rock museum.</title>
		<link>http://tinderbox.homeschooljournal.net/2013/03/28/alexs-rock-museum/</link>
		<comments>http://tinderbox.homeschooljournal.net/2013/03/28/alexs-rock-museum/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Mar 2013 21:28:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tinderbox</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;re finishing up the Intellego Geology chapters on Minerals and Rocks this week, just in time for Alex&#8217;s spring break. The curriculum encourages doing some kind of response activity at the end of each section. For rocks and minerals, Alex &#8230; <a href="http://tinderbox.homeschooljournal.net/2013/03/28/alexs-rock-museum/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Snow candy!!</title>
		<link>http://tinderbox.homeschooljournal.net/2013/03/25/snow-candy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Mar 2013 02:28:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tinderbox</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://tinderbox.homeschooljournal.net/?p=1806</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[All winter, ever since I read Little House in the Big Woods to Colin, Alex has yearned to make snow candy the way Laura Ingalls did. All winter we&#8217;ve had no more than an inch of dirty snow at a &#8230; <a href="http://tinderbox.homeschooljournal.net/2013/03/25/snow-candy/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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