Mt. Pleasant Classical Academy

I presently have books everywhere, all over the floor and my school table, trying to figure out grammar & lit & writing for next year for MilitaryKid. This year he worked through R&S grammar 6th grade and has done rather well but he hasn’t done their writing assignments. MK […]

So we’re riding home from seeing our friend’s puppies and take the overpass over Rt 95. “Look down there. It looks like a parking lot.”
“Yea, that store must be really crowded.”
Now, Military Kid has never been one to have great conversational skills, or one to be a talker, or one to […]

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 […]

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 […]

And so the question was posed to me.
MOM, Can I make pretzels?
What could I say? It’s too hot to cook. But no, I said GO FOR IT.
MilitaryKid went to the net and found the recipe for Auntie Anne’s Pretzels or one claiming to be quite similar to it. And this […]

MilitaryKid loves pretzels. So I wasn’t too surprised when he asked for me to purchase the make-your-own pretzel package when we stopped at our Amish Grocery Store. I suggested though that MK make the pretzels and he agreed.
Once home he happily pulled out the bowls, gathered his supplies, turned on the oven, […]

Work hard, play hard. Right? Both MilitaryKid

and ScienceKid

did a little project/work for Granddad before we headed back home. They did a nice job in a very short time clearing the weeds from the garden. It wasn’t a huge job and took them barely 30 minutes but MK would rather play […]

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 […]

MK was told last night by the Principal, aka DH / Dad, that unless his work was completed there would be no Trick-or-Treating Tuesday night. MK joined his Dad for breakfast at 5:30am, and started by 6:15AM —- ahhh, a nice little attitude adjustment—-real world.

Last evening I shared […]