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We had beautiful weather for Halloween this year, which is rather unusual for us. Aidan donned his penguin suit (and a new persona–he made us call him Mac, short for macaroni penguin, or Tux after the Linux mascot). Aidan was a little more adventurous this year, wanting to walk a little farther down the block [...]

It is our hope to engage in more volunteer and service-learning activities with Aidan (for his sake and our own). So today, we sought such an opportunity through the “Feed My Starving Children” organization located in Aurora, IL. It was a wonderful experience.
•  2 hours•  49 volunteers•  50 boxes of food•  10,800 meals•  30 kids fed for a year
Together [...]

9/7/2008
Chris picked this book up the other day. As usual, I’ll post when I’ve gotten into it (or finished it) and when I have some time. For now though, this quote of Holt’s from the editor’s foreword caught my eye.
Learning, to me, means making more sense of the world around us, and being able to [...]