Mt. Pleasant Classical Academy

Over at TWTM Forum Curriculum boards folks are starting to post their curriculum choices for next year. At first I thought—oh my, NO, NOT NEXT YEAR ALREADY! I’m still trying to work through this year, and get into the groove of this year. NO, I WILL NOT THINK ABOUT NEXT YEAR and what I NEED to buy.

Then it dawned on me. I already have everything we NEED for next year. I must admit though that I did start looking at Earth-Space science textbooks for MilitaryKid, but I stopped myself. All the earth-space science books ScienceKid used are sitting there on the shelf, the course outline is already made, and IFFFFF we follow the course outline he’ll be exposed to loads of great science. Why does that happen; I mean, being so tempted? I read about the Prentice Hall Science books several moms over at WTM were using and I thought for a nano second or two that they would be so super for MK to have. I explored their site, read what I could about them, searched for used copies at EBay, WTM For Sale Board, and Half.com before I stopped myself. Why do we do that? So often I tell moms; if what you are doing is working don’t switch. But here I was exploring alternatives for a science book when the present one wasn’t broken. It is so easy to do. But the book wasn’t purchased and I decided that we don’t need to change what we are doing afterall.

So, I breathe a sigh of relief. I don’t have to go out and buy anything for next year. There’s nothing we really NEED, although there will always be those little extras that I purchase; a few more novels for us to read, a few videos or Teaching Company courses, but nothing major. We are all set for next year.