Mt. Pleasant Classical Academy

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 […]

Another school week, nothing much happening here.
In our Science Olympiad team the kids are choosing events. SK is hoping for five events this year, and we’ll know next week which ones they are.
We visited the dentist today, all three of us. I was quite happy when they called and said they had a spot […]

Boys are out Trick-or-treating around the neighborhood. YES!!!
The best part though was the glee MK had when he shared with his Dad that he had DONE ALL HIS WORK. There was such a sense of accomplishment coming from him. He knew that he had really worked hard and diligently all […]

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 […]

I won’t make any money if I share with you my approach to writing; actually no one can make any money on this approach, and probable that is the reason why so many will not believe that this simple approach to teaching writing will yield results, but it does do just that. I’ve seen […]

Last Friday morning Terri, Beth and I headed to a writing workshop in Richmond Virginia sponsored by Veritas Press with my favorite speaker, Susan Wise Bauer. I’ve heard her before, at other conferences but this entire workshop was just Susan speaking on writing. I also heard Jessie Wise on […]

Last week I visited Terri, an organizational Queen, and of course admired her homeschool room with all its little boxes, drawers neatly organized — ah, it was beautiful. Everything so neat and tidy and in its place! Long time readers of my blog know that Terri helped me organize our school room. […]

The garage building process is progressing—sorry I haven’t posted any photos but our digital camera hasn’t been working right Sometimes it will take the photo and sometimes not at all, which you don’t know until you go to download them. But I was able to get these photos this morning.

To me […]