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As an Essentials tutor, mothers often ask me, “Why do we have to teach so much grammar?” Many of us graduated from college without being able to define “object complement,” so why would we expect our fourth graders to do so? First and foremost, we’re preparing our children to...
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Pi Day March 14th, 2011 Fun links for today! Wikipedia: Pi CNN.com: Is Pi under attack? (link no longer available) MSNBC: Student recites 8,784 digits of Pi (link no longer available) Youtube: 8 year old recites 200 digits of Pi Pi Facts on Fact Retriever Classical Conversations does not...
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It is late August—Day 1 of school for your Challenge kids. You, the tutor, ask the question, “What sort of cool things did you learn over the summer that challenged your thinking? What did you learn that made you defend your beliefs?” Hands shoot up all over the classroom,...
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