3 posts tagged “calvert”

The boys have been doing Calvert for almost a year now, and you know, sometimes, it can be kind of dry. Last time we experimented with starting the day with The Writer's Almanac. I'm a big fan, but the boys favor Car Talk over something so mellow.

Madagascar Presentation

Well, I guess this is easier than making a PowerPoint presentation on Madagascar... Lately, I have been working on a presentation about Madagascar with everything from the climate to the land usage to the diet of the people there. It's my third PowerPoint presentation. I've already done ten pages, and that's only half of it!

Fishing in La Cruz

I haven't been fishing nearly as much as Nicholas, and I've only caught one bottom-feeder, though it was just as big as Nicholas's largest one. When we were back in La Cruz, after an unsuccessful fishing trip on the rocks with one of the locals, we walked back to the boat with him, and he took out a large magazine and four lures to divide among me and Nicholas. Unfortunately, after another unsuccessful time fishing off Samadhi here at Las Hadas, I discovered that one of the eyes of my jig was gone.

I finally finished all the Lord of the Rings books, and just today started on Invasion of the Body Snatchers, which Kelly says is awesome. I don't know why, but the third book of The Lord of the Rings just seems really different from all the others.

Alexander attempting his personal aquarium

When we were in Barra de Navidad, we rode for a really long time in the dinghy to get to this big resort, The Grand Bay. It had three mammoth pools, the highest of which had a fast water slide going from it to the next. Anther pool had a second water slide, but it seemed to be targeted towards babies, as it was almost impossible to go fast on. On the fun slide, Nicholas and I invented many wacky ways to go down, like imitating Gandhi or making your own aquarium as you slid down. Even though I don't look very happy in the picture, I'm really having fun.

Nicholas works on his composition.

This time around the boys had a little under 3 months to complete three 22-lesson "units" of Calvert. As of this afternoon, the boys are happy to announce that they have submitted their Lesson 100 tests to Calvert! Now we've got over a month before they leave to visit their mom, and only one unit to go!

Alexander's teacher Mrs. Soyke warned us that this set of tests and the next ones are the hardest in the course, but we're very confident about the boys' performance. To quote Nicholas, "Bring it on!"

It's going to be such a relief to be able to scale back the amount of time the boys spend on Calvert. We're looking forward to 5 very kick-back weeks.