Mt. Pleasant Classical Academy

So here’s the post that was lost, I’m trying to reconstruct it…..
An email came to me from a friend, telling me of a lecture being given on DE History at one of our local libraries. She also suggested that ScienceKid attend so that he can log the hours toward Delaware History. […]

ScienceKid returned from his speech competition and reported receiving an EXCELLENT rating in Impromptu.   Nice job. (And don’t tell him, but I would not have wanted to give an impromptu speech on some topic)
He said the low point was when 180 people in the cafeteria sang Happy Birthday to him.  How many folks have […]

This is something I’ve been wanting to share for the last 6 months; a project that I’m quite proud of and replying to a post at The Homeschool Library got me thinking that I really needed to share this.
High School electives are not something I really thought too much about when […]

ScienceKid had decided to build a strip-built kayak and though this project is not complete he has already learned some valuable skills. The strips first went up the boat sides and then he met a new challenge. How to bend the strips so they would now run parallel to the ground?

He contemplated that […]

Things have been rough here and as my mom always told me; ‘if you don’t have anything nice to say don’t say anything.’ Which means I have had to be quiet.
I hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving. We did and had a celebration full of traditional food and seafood. It was good, […]

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 […]

ScienceKid and I went into Philadelphia this morning and attended the NACAC College Fair held at the Philadelphia Convention Center. I know I said that we wouldn’t go to another college fair but I changed my mind.
Lots of people, many more girls than boys, walking the aisles and looking at colleges. Why is […]

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 […]

ScienceKid and I went to his first college fair at U of De last evening. Crowds! Folks pushing to get around tables to talk with the recruiters. And the questions — what’s the minimum GPA you accept at your college question was the one I heard most frequently. Ours was […]

Choices. How is one to ever know the effect a choice they make will have? I’ve been thinking about this issue quite a bit lately. We all make countless choices and decisions everyday. Some matter very little; should I have a glass of water or a […]