Today was a homeschooling milestone — the first time the kids took a standardized test. It was fascinating for me and J. Just fascinating.
We’d hired a tester to administer the Peabody Individual Achievement Test. This test is given by a tester, who asks the kids questions. There’s a reading component, a [...]
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In no particular order, a list.
1. The common consensus at my workplace is that we have no idea how the two pilots of a Northwest flight forgot to land their plane. We don’t know if they were asleep, or fighting, or having sex with each other, or what. We also don’t know [...]
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1. The ficathon, Heroines Fest, went live! Lots of good fic about the women of the superhero universes. My particular favorites are Reason to Believe, in which Hisako (of the X-Men) receives some advice about writing a letter to her parents from an unlikely source, and Solutions for Better Living, in which [...]
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I deeply love the things my kids learn.
Today we reviewed Middle East geography. I gave the kids a blank map of the Middle East and began calling out countries. The kids tried to identify them on the map and color them in. I gave hints. The kids used to have the [...]
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