Blogger Challenge 2008 sprog thank-you art + poem: memory.

Ewan made a generous donation to one of the projects in my challenge and, as he did last year, he requested a poem illustrated by the sprogs on the subject of memory.
It turns out that drawing “memory” is pretty challenging! However, the sprogs worked out some ways to represent the concept of memory more concretely. So, we offer a poem, some illustration, and our thanks to Ewan:

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Blogger Challenge 2008: funds from Seed and a chance to vote on which propsal should get the money.

By now you’ve probably seen the news that Seed has kicked in $15,000 to fund projects in our Blogger Challenge slates. We are, as always, thrilled at our Overlords’ generosity.
This year, though, rather than applying the money at the end of the drive, we have a situation where each blog with an active challenge has been given control of a $715 giving credit at DonorsChoose. In other words, we get to decide how to use this windfall to help fund classroom projects … and to get more readers involved in funding them.
So I’m going to see if I can get some audience participation from you on where to direct these funds.

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Friday Sprog Blogging: what big kids know.

A conversation from the sidelines at the elder Free-Ride offspring’s soccer game:
Dr. Free-Ride: Hey, what are you drawing?
Younger offspring: Stars.
Dr. Free-Ride: Hmmm.
Younger offspring: I know they don’t look like the way they teach you how to draw stars, but real stars don’t look that way.
Dr. Free-Ride: You have a point.

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After school experiment: avocado mayonnaise.

Given that today is Mole Day, it seemed only fair to follow up on our earlier experimentation with avocados. You may recall that, in discussing our efforts to dissolve avocados, we said:

One further experiment we’ve decided to try at some future point is to investigate whether we can make mayonnaise substituting mashed avocado for some or all of the oil.

That future point? Now a past point.

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Before I report the results from our kitchen, let’s talk a little about mayonnaise.

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