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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

I rarely have one of THOSE days, but today was one and the stress hit me full force. First I wasn’t really ready for school to start up after my little weekend away at the SO Conference. Second, as I approached my desk, as my kids call the table in the school room, […]

We returned last night at 11pm from Hammond, IN and the SO Coaches Clinic — great time, we learned allot, had a few too many late nights but I’m really energized for this coming coaching year.
Everyone I spoke to noticed that we’re homeschoolers and the response was quite positive, particularly from the vendors. […]