Mt. Pleasant Classical Academy

HT to  skater CF’s parent for sending me these fine photos of the boys inline speed skating.
The boys have practiced hard.  Look at that focus, that intensity and determination.  And he isn’t falling these day.

They love their sport and I believe it shows.

The boys lean, work on getting down while doing circle drills.
 
They are learning […]

This post is for Ang in Texas at St. Fairsted Farm, well, and everyone else who honors me with a visit here.  She made a post about her chicken & dumplings, and that got me hungry for Grandma Ree’s Chicken & Noddle dish.  Ummmm, so good.   I posted a short version over at her site […]

DS and I went on our first college tour to University of Delaware, Newark, DE. We went since it is practically in our backyard but prior to this DS didn’t seem thrilled about the thought of attending UD.   Yes, I’ve never been on a college tour before so I don’t have anything to compare this […]

We’ve run into math problems this year, or rather problems with math concepts this year in Pre-Algebra.   First we needed to spend weeks on the concept of adding and subtracting with negative numbers.    Finally though we passed that hurdle and adding and subtracting with negative numbers became “easy.”   What a happy day […]

Last evening DH called me into the family room and declared that the room is finished.   Let me share our new room with you, and see if you agree.

We start with the doubtful look on this dog’s face.  Notice how tired he is.  Tired of the remodel too.  But it is complete!
The new little lights […]

ht to MaryM at WTM Forums
I spent last evening exploring Khan Academy vidEo library, watching a few of their pre-algebra math videos and doing math problems.   Can’t wait to have the boys explore this site too.

It is our mission to accelerate learning for students of all ages. With this in mind, we want […]

I feel the need to write about something fun, something uplifting, so I’ll not share how the remodeling work is not progressing, nor about noisy testing sites, and ear infections, and……well, off to a better subject.
I shared that last Thursday Mark’s new inline speed skates came in, thanks to some hard work by Tim at […]

Here’s a new question to add to the question-list you should have by your side when you call the local public or private school to sign your DC up for the once-in-a-lifetime-this-test-really-counts-PSAT:
Ask whether the school is going to have construction going on.  Ask whether they will have a BUZZ SAW running directly below […]

As I drove my 11th grader to the private school where he took his PSAT this morning I noticed that the woods had a red color to them.

Their red color was from leaves turning but my garden has some red flowers too.

Fall is here.
Which is why I jumped at the chance to take some photos […]

Today at 15:12 all the trimwork in the house that needed to be painted by me was finished.  There were miles upon miles of it, two coats too.  My right arm is stiff and sore again from painting.  While I was painting I wondered about how nice it would be to just have been able […]