Mt. Pleasant Classical Academy

I was chatting with a neighbor, a school teacher, about her position, classroom stuff, and soon the topic moved to science.  She expressed how she loved doing experiments with her little cherubs and I shared how I was turning Mark onto science this year by doing Chemistry experiments with her.   She was quite interested in what I was using and had never heard of Wild Goose Company Science Kits.  I pulled one out of the house and began to show it to her.  The label says, Real Science-Real Fun.

Suddenly she caught herself, and exclaimed, “Oh no, no I can’t use this.  It doesn’t meet the DE State Standards for what I’m to teach in the classroom.”     There was no teasingly sarcasm in her voice, but dead seriousness.  She closed the box and handed it back.  In case you aren’t familiar with Wild Goose products they are totally secular, very safe kits, clearly laid out procedures with easy-to-understand explanations including how these chemicals are used in real-life to produce other items or help ease our lives, and their experiments have all worked for us.  Every time.

I thought about her reaction and once again concluded that I am so happy that we homeschool and have the freedom to choose the materals we wish, when we wish too.   This morning Mark and I did all the experiments in the Slimey Chemistry kit by Wild Goose Company.  He was engaged and thrilled making slime and learning about polymers and monomers, and foam.  The kit meets our homeschool standards and that’s what is important here.