Mt. Pleasant Classical Academy

MK worked really hard this week and amazingly got all his work done! YEA!! For the week he did:

Math: an exercise each day in his Singapore Math 6A book, and 3 speed drills from the R&S math book

History: 2 outlines from Kingfisher History Enc, updated his timeline, and finished reading The Sword in the Circle—finally. He’s been trying to get through that book since New Years Day. He did some research reading and then wrote a topic report on the Feudal System. It was one page, double-spaced, handwritten, and not bad.

Science: We read How the Weather Works, he read a Lesson in his Science textbook and did the required practice tests. He also started working on his Bio-Process Science Olympiad event with his partner, and they flew their glider for the first time. Tomorrow he’ll work with his partner to build two more gliders.

Logic: He completed a problem in MindBenders B and started a new one. These are quite challenging for him.

Classical Composition: The fable this week was the Dog and his Shadow. Ya know the one, the dog has a bone in his mouth, crosses a bridge, sees a dog with a bone in the water, and tries to grab the bone. The dog loses his in the process. MK outlined the story, re-wrote four sentences, five different ways, and re-wrote the story from his outline 3 different ways. Directions for each re-write is clearly explained in the manual so there is no guesswork or planning on my part. CC has worked well with each of my boys, and I think it is because the directions are so easy for ME to follow.

Grammar: MK easily did 5 lessons in his R&S 6 book this week, concentrating on the proper pronoun to use. I only ever have him read the writing exercises in the R&S book. This is the one subject where we do not use a secular grammar program and for the most part I do not find R&S’ book to be preachy or objectional. We are Christians but I’d rather not have our textbooks filled with Bible verses and Biblical tales. Classical Composition is not secular either once you are out of level 1 but we just skipped the lessons that were totally Biblical based.

Latin; ahh, MK’s least favorite subject but he worked through Lesson 7 in Matin Latin 2.

PE: MK did swim team twice this week, and we joined the new Y in our area. I am sooooo excited about this. They have a great looking pool which should be awesome to use. Actually, I think I’m more excited then the kids. We’ll fit this into our budget by dropping MK’s swim team workouts, which will more than pay for half the monthly membership fee for our entire family. And I promised to stop pestering DH for an endless pool for our home.

Oh, MK asked his Dad if he could buy an IPod nano with the money he has saved. DH said he would agree if MK were to complete all his work from now to the end of the year as I have planned it out. Amazing what this little carrot has done for motivating one boy

One last point—GO PATS!!!  (Terri, please understand, I lived in MA for 16yrs, my boys were born in MA, and if they don’t win, oh well, it won’t be the end of the world.  I’ll still talk with you and Peyton.)