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All Calvert families are part of our educational community. While each home schooling situation is unique, we try to give our parents a number of ways to share their Calvert experience. Use this page to ask and answer questions with other parents on our forum, or to read blog entries from our Calvert staff, providing helpful information and insight into the people that shape the curriculum that helps you educate your child.
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Thank you very much for all the replies. I am happy to know that the first lessons are a review and the idea of going more in depth is something I was thinking about doing. Thanks again.
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I would also like more info on "The Greatest Man Who Ever Lived." I will try to research it this week. I have been ordering biblical curriculum from Christian Liberty Press and I really like it and the prices are great.
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Welcome to Calvert and homeschooling. I hope you enjoy it as much as we do. I think moving ahead grades is not usually a good idea. What I do with my second grade boy, is to enrich or provide more indepth study when he is completed his Calvert lessons. Here are some of the things that we have added to enrich while staying in the same grade. My son loves...
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The first twenty lessons of each of our courses is designed to be a review of the previous year's learning. The review will help refresh your daughter's memory, and prepare her for the year ahead. You may move through these lessons as quickly as your daughter is able to move until you get to more challenging material. If you have any further...
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A recent (the last two days) thing I have done with my 4th grader ( will be 10 in Nov) is "whiny chips." He gets 6 tokens to start with. Whining and fussing causes him to lose a token. If he loses them all, he loses computer for the day. His goal in life is to finish his school work so he can play computer, so this really motivates him. In...