McKinley Point Academy

By wisdom a house is built, and by understanding it is established; and by knowledge the rooms are filled with all precious and pleasant riches. ~Proverbs 24:3-4

• Feb. 17, 2007 - We are in the Polar Region

We have entered the polar region.  We read about seals, sea lions, walrus and polar bears this week.  We also played a fun game based on Happy Feet on the National Geographic site. In math we did more subtracting, learned about 1/3 and 1/4, and started to learn about quarters.  Mei is starting to understand the money stuff.  I am really, really glad we are doing a program that does not require mastery before moving on.  Things seem to take awhile to sink in with her.  She does better if the topic is presented several times over several weeks.  However, when she gets a topic, she is gets it!  She really enjoys working on multiple topics at a time.  We have slowed down in the number of lessons we do a week, so it looks like we will have enough lessons for the whole year. In LA, we learned the letter W and read another BOB book.  It had some rhyming words, so I made a list to show her how rhyming works - words like pat, fat, sat, cat, mat.  I told her it was a game and she was quick to start making up words on her own.  She even wanted to write them down herself -- so we did spelling! We also went on Mark's field trip to the NC Museum of History and the NC Museum of Natural Sciences.  We will have to go back to the history museum next year when we study Indians.  The science museum was full of animal habitats.  It was pretty cool.  They had skeletons of whales among other things.  They also have a sloth!  He was down on the ground so we got to see him moving around. In honor of all the snow my WP friends in the north got, here are some pictures of snow. Our Once-in-100-years snow storm in NC.  We got 17" in one day.  Schools were closed for 4 days.  My sons Paul & Mark, ages 9 and 3, trying to wade through it.  January 2000. What is more likely is ICE!  Here is the worse in the 20 years I have lived here - December 2002.  It snowed about 3" before it turned to sleet.  We got 1/4 to 1/2" of ice.  We were without power for 3 days - some people were without power for a week!  We lost the tops of 8 pine trees.  Fortunately none of them hit the house! Yes, those are 30+ feet stumps! Sledding across the ice in the cul-de-sac!

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