It's a new year and a new semester, but that is not all that is new.  So are His mercies every morning according to the Scriptures.  As the middle school and high school here at KA navigate this semester, I hope every student and teacher will stand on that promise.  His mercies are new every morning!  And there might be some need for mercies from students and teachers to each other as well. ;-)

In World History,  we began studying the French Revolution.  It is a Godless, bloody, and horrible time in history.  I am very thankful to live in this time and in this country.  The more I teach history, the more I remember to be thankful for this.

In M.S. Science, we started a Unit on motion and kinetics.  Along with the normal lecture, worksheets, and notes, we plan to calculate some speeds and accelerations by heading to the gym.  We will use each other running as well as some RC toys.  We might even toss some things off the mezzanine and fit that into some equations.

Since we finished up Health, we began the semester class of Speech.  I am really looking forward to this class and I believe quite a few students were anticipating having this replace Health.  We began this week by playing some group word games to break the ice.

In Biology, we finished up our chapter on bacteria before Christmas.  So now we are going into the next microscopic world of Protozoans.  The students will learn things like how toothpaste scrubs off plaque, how there is ocean organisms on top of mountains, and why are jelly beans chewy.  All of these topics are related to the organisms we will be studying.

In Physics, Levi and Dennis were given a late Christmas present.  Along with keeping up on their curriculum, they will be undergoing an engineering project using a Discovery kit of hundreds of pieces, tracks and marbles.

In Physiology, the Junior girls are especially excited about this semester because they will be dissecting a fetal pig, a cow eyeball, and a cow heart.  Rather than worksheets and tests, there is just something more exciting about dissection when it comes to structure and function of the human body.  I'm sure the girls are just glad we don't have cadavers here at Kingdom Academy!