Mt. Pleasant Classical Academy

A post over at TWTM got me thinking about the wonderful solar projector SK made back in ‘03. He had great fun with this:

He was thrilled cause he could see the sun spots.

He eventually used K’Nex to build a huge stand for the binoculars and a holder for the large white board. The sun […]

MK and I took a little field trip to Cape Henlopen State Park today; wonderful weather, great group of HS’ing kids for the most part. There was only one kid who did not know the meaning of “Do Not Touch That” (or stop doing that, or hands to yourself). I’ll blame the […]

We pulled out the science gear and determined if iodine could detect starch in a solution. WOW, it turned it black (the test tube on the the left is iodine in water, 2nd from the left is iodine in a starch solution). The next two tubes dealt with detecting fat in solution, however […]

Yesterday I decided to start doing lots of science experiments or demonstrations. It’s just something that we used to do often but during the last couple years just hasn’t been on our hs’ing plate too often. This year this is one thing I am trying to do differently.
In science MK […]

ScienceKid took the GOLD MEDAL in Storm the Castle on May 20th at the National Science Olympiad Competition held at Indiana University!!!
We are so thrilled. A totally thrilling day!!!
Saturday began for us early in the morning impounding the Trebuchet first thing at 6:30 am. We then moved quickly to the other end of […]

No sleep for the weary here. This has been an ultra-busy week and month for us as ScienceKid finishes his preparation for National’s (National Science Olympiad) on this coming Saturday. Preparing meant that we Mom’s had to cart the kids to some meeting spot; sometimes at our home, sometimes at the partner’s home, […]

Today was Delaware’s Jr High Science Olympiad Competition. Our team home school was one of 60 teams competing in Dover today. ScienceKid and his teammate had 3 events:
Storm the Castle—he built a trebuchet that used a counter-weight to throw a projectile ’some’ distance. The counter-weight and projectile weight […]

ScienceKid is participating in Science Olympiad, for the first time. Last year our hs group went to the National competition at the U of Illionis, and asked ScienceKid to join the team as their only alternate. He would only get to participate if someone got sick or couldn’t go at the last minute. […]