The middle of the homeschool year is often when families experience what is best described as the Mid-Year Blues. It is a time when interest and motivation for homeschooling wane. When the blues hit, the best thing to do is shake things up. Over the years, the staff at Calvert School has collected a number [...]
Wait a minute! It’s December? How did that happen? Panic! Excitement! Hysteria! Frenzy! The December Holidays are sneaking up on you and you still have to buy the gifts, iron the carpet, shampoo the tablecloth… Wait… what?? Let’s take a few deep cleansing breaths…. There, that’s better. Now let’s take a step back. How [...]
As a homeschooler, you’re probably already aware that there are many different learning styles. Everyone has their preferred method of learning. Whether your are new to homeschooling or are an old pro, a quick review of learning styles can be beneficial. The common school of thought recognizes three distinct learning styles. These are Visual Learners, [...]
For at least two years now, I’ve been boasting that my (now) 4 year-old can read. We can drive down a street in any given city and she’ll read the signs, “Taco Bell! Burger King! Pizza Hut!” – I’m not sure whether to be proud or…well, maybe we eat out too much. But what it [...]
Sometimes, a Calvert lesson is so timely that it has to cross grade level boundaries. My second grader and I have been arguing the virtues of hand-washing all summer. Today, Duncan, my seventh grader, had an activity that made those virtues so easy to understand for ALL of us. I wanted to share it with [...]
Ok, so if you are like us, the first week of school has begun and you are wondering what you have gotten yourself into – right? It is either going swimmingly, or you feel wrecked. Even though this is my 20th year to begin – and my 17th year with Calvert, I find that it [...]
Last Saturday morning (day four if you are counting) my son, Duncan, wanted to indulge his burgeoning love of photography, and woke me up at 6AM to go down to the beach to photograph the sunrise! (The things we parents do in the name of education =D) It was a beautiful, calm morning after some [...]
Today (Day 3) we are spending a little time in the beautiful haven of Seabrook Island, SC. These barrier islands have a rich and varied history, and Seabrook is especially well known as a sea turtle sanctuary (more on that in a later post). On our way out here, we saw several island women engaged [...]
Our second day of adventuring found us driving past the famous “South of the Border” on I-95 South. This place sort of does a take on the old Burmashave signs, but its most distinct feature is the water tower that looks like a Mexican sombrero: http://www.thesouthoftheborder.com/ We also stopped at a rest stop for a [...]
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