by Sara Klaassen | Jun 30, 2017 | Alumni, Education, News
Weekly Portraits of Calvary Life Calvary’s Education Department has started a Family Literacy Program, and it received a big boost recently. The Belton School District donated a large amount of books and even delivered them to our campus! Angie Smith, a current...
by Angie Smith | Jun 15, 2017 | Education, News
What is STEAM? The field of education is all about acronyms and abbreviations. STEAM stands for Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Math and it has become quite the buzzword in educational circles over the last five years. In the last decade, student...
by Angie Smith | Jun 12, 2017 | Education
Teaching Your Children about Financial Literacy (A Three Part Series) Part 3: Teens…The Final Frontier The teen years can be a tricky time: as our children are trying to spread their wings and want their independence, parents still have important things to...
by Angie Smith | Jun 8, 2017 | Education
Teaching Your Children about Financial Literacy (A Three Part Series) Part 2: They are Off to School, but Your Job Continues When we send our children off to kindergarten, many parents feel that their role as their child’s teacher has ended. As they walk into...
by Angie Smith | Jun 5, 2017 | Education
Teaching Your Children about Financial Literacy (A Three Part Series) Part 1: The Earlier You Can Start, the Better! According to Wikipedia, financial literacy is the ability to understand how money works in the world: how someone manages to earn or make it,...
by Angie Smith | Jun 1, 2017 | Education
Developing Literacy Skills from an Early Age Is it ever too early to begin teaching literacy skills to your child? Research would say that it is not. Parents of infants and toddlers are in an excellent position to begin cultivating a love of learning in...
