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08:41 –<\/span> After almost 24 hours without Barbara, Colin and I are surviving. I like to exercise my culinary skills while Barbara’s away, so for dinner I had egg-salad sandwiches with egg salad that I made myself. And Barbara thinks I can’t cook. I made it through only five episodes of Heartland last night, S4E12 through S4E16. That leaves 21 episodes through S6E1 remaining, which I don’t think I’ll get through before Barbara returns on Saturday.
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I also did some more work on the Life Science kit. I always order the lab manuals for any curricula I intend to correlate our kits with, and among those are religious “science” curricula from the likes of A Beka, Apologia, Bob Jones University Press, and so on. I always order the current versions, and the BJUP Life Science lab manual showed up Tuesday.
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Much of the religious curriculum stuff simply can’t be correlated. For example, one of the “investigations” in the BJUP Life Science curriculum has the students drawing a cross section of Noah’s Ark and then cutting out little human and animal figures to scale and pasting them on the ark drawing. I am not making this up. And then there’s the “investigation” on evolution, which has students filling in a table that lists various phenotypic and behavioral characteristics of dinosaurs and checking the appropriate column for evidence-based versus guess. As we all know, scientists do a lot of guessing, right? Then there’s the “investigation” where students are tasked with reading specific bible verses and describing the animals that are the subjects of those verses. Geez. I can’t wait to get to Earth Science.
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08:41 – After almost 24 hours without Barbara, Colin and I are surviving. I like to exercise my culinary skills while Barbara’s away, so for dinner I had egg-salad sandwiches with egg salad that I made myself. And Barbara thinks I can’t cook. I made it through only five episodes of Heartland last night, S4E12 through S4E16. That leaves 21 episodes through S6E1 remaining, which I don’t think I’ll get through before Barbara returns on Saturday.<\/p>\n

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