For the last couple of years, science was reading great books such as Burgess Bird Book and Pagoo. Taking regular trip to the same nature place, ours is the creek, and seeing the changes, trying to identify living things and sketching what we would see. It has been amazing to me what the kids have learned about their natural surrounds just by doing these few simple things.
The last half of last year, we added the book Flying Creatures of the Fifth Day. It is a textbook/living book dedicated to a whole lot of God's flying creatures. It goes a little bit more in depth about flying creatures and even gives some science experiments that are possible to do with everyone in the family.
We will hopefully finish that book in the first part of this year. and continue once a month trips to the creek. Still encouraging the kids to learn about nature, which, they honestly do all on their own. I can't tell you how many times they have looked something up in the encyclopedia.
When we finish that book, we are going to study dinosaurs using Dinosaurs by Design. And then we will study Astronomy using Find the Constellations and our really cool telescope. The great thing about the last two subjects we will study is, I already have those books and Boop can join in!
I am hoping to stay a little bit more focused on science this year. As with all the subjects, we will see how it goes . . .
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