Mt. Pleasant Classical Academy

ScienceKid attended another YESS session last evening. They posted all the speakers notes on the web under the 2007 button so you can see what they are covering. Last evening for the design-project task the kids were given a dry solids mixture and worked in groups of 5 to separate out the […]

Finally we had our first full week of school. Actually it included our first full day of school too. I haven’t been much in the mood to post about it either. It just seems strange to have such a late start but that’s life. We had other life happenings take place.
This […]

Background:
MilitaryKid is entering 6th grade, has used Singapore Math from the beginning, along with R&S and Calculadders and Math Worksheet Factory. I LOVE math, it is my favorite subject and enjoy teaching it, and do math for fun, but realize I MUST be doing something WRONG. Why do I feel this way […]

As a female engineer I read with interest this morning’s article in Delaware Online about the 83yo “Mother of the bulletproof vest” While I have many fond memories of working, mixed in also are too many not-so-good memories of being the only female engineer in a sea of males…..
And here is […]

“MK, how’s your math going? Let’s see your work.” I look at the page, filled with doodle work—and this is a child who really doesn’t care to draw.
“Upstairs. There’s a toilet with your name on it that needs to be cleaned.”
We had a little chat this evening about choices. We once […]

SK finished up Singapore’s New Elementary Math 3A yesterday covering Algebra 2, Trigonometry and geometry topics. He had worked through most of this material last spring but when we started back this fall SK was making too many mistakes. Being careless was what he claimed, however I felt […]

This information was forwarded to me by a PS friend-HS’ing Dad. I’ve spent only a little time exploring Google’s new Literacy Project site but so far the book search feature looks really promising, there’s lots of information in the Scholar or rather links to articles regarding literacy (teaching reading, phonemic awareness,….) […]

Yes, something happened here today that was way more exciting then the election results. Sure, they are important but for us this was even more exciting.
MK was heard saying over and over;
This math is so easy mom. I know how to do this, …. this is so easy….
I have never, ever heard MK  […]

Our science lab on Monday dealt with Osmosis — the movement of water molecules. Inside this permeable membrane was a solution of starch and sugar while the beaker contained an iodine solution. Soon the iodine diffused across the membrane and into the bag turning the solution from white to purple. COOL!! […]

I don’t know where the name came from but the boys named her Missy. Her real name is just yellow-and-black garden spider. She has caught grasshoppers and crickets the boys have thrown into her web. Great nature studies!

She’s about 2″ long and won’t make her web where I can […]