Mt. Pleasant Classical Academy

On Sunday evening Michael completed his two chemistry labs and they were both fun.  So much fun that he insisted doing them again this evening with Mark.   I think it is something you could easily do with your kids too.   The one piece of equipment that is needed, that you probable do not have is […]

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 […]

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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 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 […]

ugh!  I feel like I am pushing a rope trying to teach Mark math.  At moments I feel like he gets it and then he doesn’t.  Three steps forward and 5 steps backwards is often how I feel it is around here with Mark and Math. Right now he doesn’t get negative numbers,  or […]

This morning I took my two dogs for a walk around the neighborhood while Michael rode fast by us.  He has quite an exercise program and is very dedicated to it.  Routine, he likes that.   It was hot on our walk, and humid, and I don’t do well with either.  Brutus really […]

 
Tuesday & Wednesday, May 26 & 27, 2008

Once packed we headed north to Phoenix, enjoyed a lunch with a nephew I hadn’t seen since ’89 and one that neither Mark nor Michael had ever met.  He’s a nice man, and Michael easily related to him.  Shame that he isn’t closer.
 
From Phoenix we stopped into […]

This is Thanksgiving week for us which means field trips, cooking, book reading and craft projects. But not this year. This year I didn’t want to go anywhere, but wanted to do something different. Plus we have had this dissection kit sitting around here for almost a year, which will go bad […]

MilitaryKid has never really liked math; it has never come close to being his favorite subject; it has never been an easy subject for him either. As I wrote before that while he finished his Singapore 5B book last spring, he really didn’t have a clue how to work math problems […]

Military Kid is studying Earth-Space Science this year and for the first time this hs’er is using a science textbook. ScienceKid for Logic Age Earth-Space Science used Reader’s Digest books How the Earth Works?, How the Weather Works, and How the Universe Works? They were just the right books for SK […]