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Summer Matters!
Lower School Head Kitty Davis and Upper School Head Wilson Everhart offer their recommendations for keeping your kids active, engaged, learning, and progressing over the summer. Because summer matters!
Summer is the perfect time to engage your children in a fun, innovative learning experience. At the beginning of the summer, ask them what they would like to learn more about. Maybe it’s dinosaurs. Maybe it’s discovering how it rains. Maybe it’s the study of Impressionist art. And then come up with a plan: How can we find more information on the topic? What books can we find in the library, what’s on the internet, what places can we visit to discover the answers to our questions? Make it an adventure and have fun!
Along with this “summer project,” I suggest keeping your kids on a schedule. Children love routine and knowing what to expect. Make sure to schedule in unstructured time - let them get bored and create their own fun. Sign them up for the Summer Reading program at your local library. Read, read, read! And write, write, write! Get them a journal so they can jot down their thoughts, adventures and dreams.
- Kitty Davis, Lower School Head
Suggestions to keep your child reading this summer: 1) As evidenced by our new STAR initiative, I am a huge believer that the best way to get your children to read is to give them wide latitude in what they want to read. 2) Ask your child to choose a book that you two can read separately at the same time. This way the two of you can talk about the book on dog walks, over dinner, or in the car on the way to swim practice. 3) As you look ahead to any long car trips this summer, work with your child to find an audio book the family can listen to. You can let your child choose the book, or you can find a great narrator and choose almost anything they read. (For my money, Jim Dale is the gold standard, but there are other outstanding narrators out there.) 4) Make sure your child sees you reading and learning over the summer.
Summer is also a great time for family field trips. We are blessed to have in our immediate surroundings Pickering Creek, the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum, and the the Academy Art Museum to name but a few. To say nothing of the National Aquarium and the Maryland Science Center in Baltimore, and the Smithsonian museums and national monuments in Washington, DC. Family field trips—or Forced Family Fun, as they were known in my family growing up—are a great way to engage your children’s curiosity throughout the summer.
Finally, as I wrote this winter, there is more value to boredom - especially outdoor, unplugged boredom - than you might imagine, so do not underestimate the importance of intentionally setting aside time this summer for your children to engage in unstructured play free electronics.
- Wilson Everhart, Upper School Head
Recent News
List of 5 news stories.
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Kindergarten Students Serving Others!
Kindergarteners have been participating in a 3 part HOHO (Helping Others; Helping Ourselves) project lead by Ferris and Laura Butler. Students packed boxes to be shipped to veterans and their families. The boxeswere filled with child friendly, donated items. Also in the boxes were handwritten letters from the students along with a handmade American flag craft. The Butlers carefully orchestrated this project, and we are very grateful for their time and efforts. -
Spring Athletic Award Winners
Congratulations to all our spring athletics award winners and to all our Cougar athletes who participated in sports and clubs! This spring, TCS offered Boys’ and Girls’ Lacrosse, Pickleball Club, Running Club, and Volleyball Club. Providing so many athletic opportunities took a village—thank you to our amazing coaches, volunteers, and parent drivers for making it all possible! And thank you to our students for setting an example of dedication and sportsmanship!Read More -
Summer Trips for Upper School Students in 2025
It is with great excitement that The Country School announces the addition of 2025 summer trips for our Upper School students!Read More -
The Country School Celebrates 90 Years and Installs Jay Parker
Read MoreThe Country School is proud to be celebrating its 90th school year. This milestone year also marks the beginning of a new chapter with the appointment of Jay Parker as the 7th Head of School. -
Conversation & Homecoming - Saturday, February 24, 2024
Read MoreThe Country School, Talbot County Free Library, and the Avalon Foundation, sponsors, join with fourteen other community organizations to present Conversation & Homecoming with Carole Boston Weatherford and her son, Jeffery Boston Weatherford, a program free and open to all.
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