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		<title>What is Education?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I heard my father say, &#8220;You better call him Dr. when you call him&#8230;&#8221;, referring to his former colleague. I silently finished the sentence, &#8220;because he sacrificed his family for that degree.&#8221; Harsh, I know. But in all the talk about how important education is, what are we really talking about? Advanced degrees that we [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://graymattersonline.net/2012/02/04/what-is-education/</link>
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		<title>Education</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A child peruses her activity books. She settles on a very used pair of Kid Concoction books. She pulls out a sheet of notebook paper and lists all the activities she&#8217;d like to do. She casually asks her mother if she can make a snow globe. She and her siblings gather the materials and make [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kzoomoo&#8217;s Knittin Kittens</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My etsy shop is not doing as well as I&#8217;d hoped. I wondered if maybe I was a little disingenuous with my shop name: kzoomoo&#8217;s knittin kittens, seeing as how I didn&#8217;t have one knit item in the shop. It&#8217;s not like I don&#8217;t knit. I just got into a crocheting binge, and explored it [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://graymattersonline.net/2012/01/25/kzoomoos-knittin-kittens/</link>
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		<title>Which is Better?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I mentioned before that I like to draw the children each week in my lesson plan book. The pictures serve both to label which child each individual plan is about and to improve my drawing skills. I posted last week&#8217;s best picture on Facebook, and I got good feedback on it. This week, I&#8217;ve drawn [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://graymattersonline.net/2012/01/24/which-is-better/</link>
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		<title>Teachable Moment</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today, Esteban&#8217;s math script introduced geoboards. Mind you, as a second grader, this is the third year he&#8217;s worked with geoboards, so I skipped over the script. But we got into some new territory, like the mathematical term for a corner in a shape&#8211;an angle. It went something like this: &#8220;Blah, blah, blah, mathematicians call [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://graymattersonline.net/2012/01/19/teachable-moment/</link>
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		<title>On the Homefront</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Nothing much to report here. Feeling like a failure homeschool wise, what with the arm wrestling to get folks to attend to their studies today. And I had a question on Imani&#8217;s crossword puzzle that she should have known, given how many times she watches the same Cosby episode over and over. It was, &#8216;Dr. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://graymattersonline.net/2012/01/12/on-the-homefront/</link>
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		<title>Zumba Partying</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you&#8217;d have told me 25 years ago that I would be going to the club at 8 PM on a Friday with my girlfriends and working out for 2 hours, I wouldn&#8217;t have believed you. And that I would have so much fun that I&#8217;d have a permagrin, be hoarse from screaming, and shaking [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://graymattersonline.net/2012/01/10/zumba-partying/</link>
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		<title>Time for Science</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I write it on the schedule every week. Under my hand-scrawled heading, science, I write, &#8220;2 exp.&#8221; Before that it was &#8220;2 nature walks or exp.&#8221; Then I wouldn&#8217;t get to it. I We took a few walks, drew and painted some pictures of the changing landscape, but I never made the time to pull [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://graymattersonline.net/2012/01/09/time-for-science/</link>
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		<title>Back to Shool</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Maybe that&#8217;s the better word I was looking for. In honor of Megamind, I&#8217;ll call our little operation at home shool. So after two weeks of vacation, we started back to shool yesterday. We know the drill, but need new music for the practicing part, and people have misplaced the Suzuki CDs, etc., etc. The [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://graymattersonline.net/2012/01/04/back-to-shool/</link>
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		<title>2011 Year in Review</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Don&#8217;t you hate those year end posts? Me neither. Thanks for checking in on us here at year&#8217;s end. Yanni branched off on her own. She won the Michigan&#8217;s Perfect Teen pageant. She finished 7th out of 40 in her first national pageant. It was a big year for Yanni. It was big for Xay, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://graymattersonline.net/2011/12/31/2011-year-in-review/</link>
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