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		<title>New plans</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bear with me, because I&#8217;m trying to plan some new things for this blog and for The Exploration Station Blog.
What I&#8217;d like to work on is adding some downloadable/printable items.  I just learned how to upload things into Scribd and embed them into posts so that with a quick click of the mouse, one [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=growinginpeace.wordpress.com&blog=2624877&post=1722&subd=growinginpeace&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 05:17:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Exploring Density with Ivory Soap

Convection of Heat
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 20:25:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As if you couldn&#8217;t tell, I have been away from this blog.  There was a few reasons for this absence.
I started the National Novel Writing Month in November, with the intention of completing 50,000 words in 30 days.  I started off very strong, writing a fictional account of my 5 years in a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=growinginpeace.wordpress.com&blog=2624877&post=1711&subd=growinginpeace&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Halloween sorting/transferring activity</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 13:38:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I found these cute pom-poms in sparkly Halloween colors and thought they&#8217;d make a really cute Montessori sorting/transferring activity.

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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 15:18:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nature is wonderful, beautiful and completely amazing&#8230;
Check out my other blog, The Exploration Station for two great close-up shots of a Painted Lady Butterfly.
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		<title>They Might Be Giants &#8211; teaching science through music</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 13:55:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you have young kids and want them to see some science concepts explained in a fun way, check out TMBG&#8217;s Here Comes Science dvd.  We just got the 2 disc cd/dvd set from Amazon.com and the girls love it.
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		<title>Fun with pattern blocks</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Oct 2009 21:58:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I love it when the girls decide for themselves to pull out the math manipulatives to play with and come up with cute little designs.  It&#8217;s unusual that all three of them decide to play with the same thing at the same time, but on Friday, they all decided to play with the same [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=growinginpeace.wordpress.com&blog=2624877&post=1691&subd=growinginpeace&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Fall Nature Walk</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2009 23:49:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hop on over to The Exploration Station to see our fall nature walk.


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		<title>Pumpkin life cycle sequencing cards</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2009 18:05:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s a free printable pumpkin life cycle sequencing card set from Montessori for Everyone.  I printed them out on cardstock and laminated them with self-stick laminating sheets.
This is my 4.5 year old putting the cards in order.  

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		<title>Fall Nature Table</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2009 21:45:49 +0000</pubDate>
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I&#8217;m entering this tree exploration and fall nature table post to Growing and Learning by Leaps and Bounds blog Tree Hugging Tots Mr. Linky round-up.  This week&#8217;s   theme is Trees.  
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