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Howto Try Trihexaflexagon
We finally managed to get a hexaflexagon working! Check out the video of my son demonstrating. If you’re having trouble getting started too, here’s a recap of our journey. We were introduced to them a...
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Scale of the Universe and Powers of 10 resources
The concept of the scale of the universe has come up multiple times with my kids, and our friends, so I thought I’d put together a few links and resources we’ve used. There is the ‘classic’ video...
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North York Central Homeschool Swim Lessons
I’m organizing swim lessons for homeschoolers. The pool is Douglas Snow Aquatic Centre, the City’s large 50m pool in Willowdale at 5100 Yonge behind the North York Civic Centre, and next to North York...
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Learning about Snowflakes
A couple of years ago we got Kenneth G. Libbrecht‘s Field Guide to Snowflakes book out of the library and I was fascinated. After a few failed attempts at capturing our own flakes and getting them...
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Happy Pi Day (3.14, March 14)
We’ve been celebrating Pi (π) Day for half a decade or so now, but some of you may be new to the idea. At the very least, it is an excuse to eat pie, and on the other end of the spectrum it is a...
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Homeschooler Catapult Exhibition, June 2014
The kids & I thought it would be fun to revive the catapult exhibitions we attended a few years ago, when they were too little to build any themselves. So, here we go: Catapult Exhibition June 11,...
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NYCL Scratch Day Diary
We’ve been looking forward to Scratch Day for a couple of months now, and am happy to say it went off wonderfully.It was five months ago today that we checked out No Starch Press’s SUPER SCRATCH...
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