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	<title>Kathleen Desmarais &#187; Home Education</title>
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		<title>Business and Family Update</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Jan 2009 22:34:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kathleen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[History Odyssey]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Home Education]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Juggling Business and Family]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sorry I haven&#8217;t posted lately. 5 months since my last post! That&#8217;s really bad.
Pandia Press Update &#8211; Chemistry (1) is finished! Well, almost, it&#8217;s finished as far as the writer and myself are concerned. It is in the hands of the editor. And then the printer. It is scheduled to be ready in March (the eBook [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;School&#8217;s&#8221; Back in Session</title>
		<link>http://kathleendesmarais.com/blog/archives/33</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Aug 2008 23:21:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kathleen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[A Typical Day]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[We start school tomorrow in my house. This is my favorite time of the school year! the beginning. I get all excited gathering materials (especially art materials&#8211;I love new paints, markers, pencils, crisp white paper). The anticipation of the school year really gets me gitty. I have all the school books neatly stacked with the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Oh! The hectic homeschool and home business days!</title>
		<link>http://kathleendesmarais.com/blog/archives/26</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Feb 2008 20:41:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kathleen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lately, it has been getting harder and harder to juggle my time between family and business. Some days I am so scattered I don&#8217;t think I accomplish a thing. My time is so stretched between kids, business, and housekeeping that it seems like none of it gets done. And now our house is on the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Electronic Versions of Pandia Press Publications</title>
		<link>http://kathleendesmarais.com/blog/archives/24</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Jan 2008 01:59:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kathleen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[History Odyssey]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Home Education]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Publishing and Writing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[R.E.A.L. Science Odyssey]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[E-books]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pandia Press]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I am in the process of evaluating the marketability of e-books and if Pandia Press publications should be offered as e-books through electronic downloads. These would be offered along side print copies with customers having a choice&#8211;hard copy or e-book. Electronic downloads offer several advantages for customers and for publishers.
For customers:

No waiting. Instantly receive your [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why It Has Been So Hard to Find Science Writers</title>
		<link>http://kathleendesmarais.com/blog/archives/22</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jan 2008 02:19:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kathleen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Home Education]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Publishing and Writing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[R.E.A.L. Science Odyssey]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Every day I receive emails from customers wondering when the next R.E.A.L. Science book is going to be released. (Actually if I had a dollar for each time I hear this question, I could retire now. O.K., maybe not a dollar, but five would probably do it, I would like to retire well.)  The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Homeschool Day at Epcot</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jan 2008 21:20:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kathleen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Ancients 2]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Home Education]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Last week my family took a much needed day off and went to Epcot in Orlando for &#8220;Homeschool Days.&#8221; On this day every year Disney offers a reduced rate to home schoolers and provides a short educational program (meeting employees of Epcot from different countries). We arrived too late for the educational part, but we [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Evolution of Mathematics in the United States</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Jan 2008 13:13:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kathleen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Home Education]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fifty Years of Math 1957 &#8211; 2007
1. Teaching Math In 1950s
A logger sells a truckload of lumber for $100. His cost of production is 4/5 of the price. What is his profit ?
2. Teaching Math In 1960s
A logger sells a truckload of lumber for $100. His cost of production is 4/5 of the price, or [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Years&#8217; Resolution &#8211; Create More Time for Business and Family</title>
		<link>http://kathleendesmarais.com/blog/archives/13</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jan 2008 03:46:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kathleen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Home Business]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Home Education]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[time savers]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Happy 2008! Now is a great time to try some changes to your daily routine in order that you can have more time for your home business, home school, and family. I&#8217;ll admit that I am not the most organized person in the world. But having juggled home school with home business for several years [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why Am I Paying For My Neighbors&#8217; Education?</title>
		<link>http://kathleendesmarais.com/blog/archives/17</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Jan 2008 20:22:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kathleen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Home Education]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Homeschool]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[property taxes]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[This time of the year, when I pay our property taxes, I always have to fight the urge to scream! This year I am paying over $2100 in the form of property taxes directly to the public school systems in two different counties. And that&#8217;s just the property taxes. In Florida, school systems also get [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Block Scheduling &#8211; Is It Good for Homeschool?</title>
		<link>http://kathleendesmarais.com/blog/archives/16</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jan 2008 01:26:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kathleen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Home Education]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Homeschool]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday I posted an entry advocating block scheduling for homeschool. While I still believe it to be a good option for homeschool, I am aware that block scheduling has its opponents. Block scheduling has been tried in public schools with varying degrees of success. It has become popular in public schools in Canada and the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Block Schedule Your Homeschool</title>
		<link>http://kathleendesmarais.com/blog/archives/14</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jan 2008 03:54:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kathleen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Home Education]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[home school]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Block scheduling is something I have turned to many times throughout the last several years of homeschooling my children. I find it has been a huge time saver during those times when I have had confusing or complicated circumstances going on in my family&#8211;like the birth of a new baby, moving,  or starting a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tudor Family Reunion from MA2</title>
		<link>http://kathleendesmarais.com/blog/archives/7</link>
		<comments>http://kathleendesmarais.com/blog/archives/7#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Dec 2007 20:06:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kathleen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[History Odyssey]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Home Education]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Middle Ages 2]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[home school]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Middle Ages]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[middle school history]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tudors]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[
Sarah (13) completed the Tudor Family Reunion worksheet found in History Odyssey, Middle Ages (2):
CONVERSATION AT A TUDOR FAMILY REUNION
 
                                   [...]]]></description>
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		<title>My Day 12/17/07</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Dec 2007 04:35:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kathleen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[A Typical Day]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Home Business]]></category>
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The following is my day on Monday, December 17th, 2007. I kept a pad with me all day, recording everything. People often ask me how I do it&#8211;home school, home business, 4 kids. Well this is how. This particular day happened to be more home school than home business but it was still a pretty [...]]]></description>
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