Mt. Pleasant Classical Academy

Busy, busy week. Science Olympiad is in full swing which means ScienceKid’s partners come here on Saturday morning, early, to work on their Mission Possible box. The boys work on this project totally on their own, so all it means for me is that either DH or I need to be here, and food and drink need to be available to flow liberally into these teenage boys. It is enjoyable to have them here and I wouldn’t want it any other way but it fills our day. The boys work great together and so far have 10 of their 16 simple machines in the box.

Monday after school SK’s Science Olympiad partner for his Food Science event and Storm the Castle event came over for an afternoon practice. This week the boys built a new arm for the trebuchet before moving on to doing a few Food Science experiments. The trebuchet is used in Storm the Castle event to hurl the object far and into the ‘castle’. It is the critical part of the trebuchet. This was a busy afternoon for me working with the boys, setting up experiments similar to what they might encounter in their Food Science event, and then allowing them time to play a game of laser tag. Monday night SK, MK and I went off to watch the one dog training class—the one we will not join.

Tuesday SK went off for a day of skiing with his hs activity club. MilitaryKid and I spent the morning playing games before heading off to watch the movie ‘Happy Feet’. Our feet were quite HAPPY to leave the theater. SK had a grand time skiing and so wants to take MK skiing. He begged last week to take MK along however the activity club’s rules do not permit it. So nice to see such brotherly love.

Wednesday afternoon SK worked for hours on his SO Rocks & Minerals event studying and putting together his study notebook. This is the event SK is not excited about but he is still studying hard for it.

Thursday early in the afternoon I take SK over to the library where he spends several hours with his Rocks and Minerals partner inspecting rocks, and teaching each other this topic. After SO Co-Op, SK heads over to his rhetoric club meeting. SK had to be pushed to go to the first meeting way back in September but has looked forward to every club meeting since then. MK and I came in at the end of the meeting and caught the tail-end of SK giving a 1N speech. He throughly enjoys the meeting and even the part of getting up in front of the group to talk. Thursday night we checked out our last dog training session. We’ve visited five groups and finally have found one that we think will work for us.

Friday afternoon SK spent the afternoon studying for his Heredity event, finished building the new arm for his trebuchet, and headed off for the evening to our church’s youth group game night. When he gets home at 10pm he’s scheduled to give a fellow hs’er a sky tour.

And at 8am tomorrow morning the week starts over again with the Science Olympiad kids coming over to work on their Mission Possible.