106 Days of Creation question

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  • November 24, 2010 at 2:33 am
    MamaWebb
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    Hello all!  I am looking at SCM’s 106 days.  I have a K, 3, and 7.  They have all had a decent exposure to different sciences, via our use of KONOS unit studies for the last few years.  The science I chose for this year is proving to bore us to death.  It’s a good level for my 7, but it’s boring and not really “real” for my 7th, and it’s over the head of my 3rd grader.

    Do you think that I could do 106 days with all my kids, and just beef it up a bit for my 7th grader?  I downloaded the free sample, but I can’t really get a feel for how much I’d have to add in or what I could do to make it more challenging for her.  

    Sonya, can you weigh in at all?

    Thanks, 

    Amy

    November 24, 2010 at 3:03 am
    Rachel White
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    106 Days is marketed up to a 6th grader. I don’t know if it’s going to be the challenging transitional science to prepare for high school level science that I personally think a 7th grader is ready to enter into, IMO. Sonya will have to chime into this. Have you considered moving the 7th grader into more independant work using Apologia General Science and using some great living books for their age?

    Yesterday’s Classics has some wonderful living science books for that age group.

    There’s such a huge difference between the oldest and second one; I think History is easier to handle such a disparity than science. But I haven’t had to deal with this type of situation, whereas you may get many wonderful ideas to mesh it together well. Technically, you only have the upper 2 to “teach” this to, with the 3 yr, old listening in to great living science books appropriate for the 7 yr. old and younger (I refer you to MAsterbooks, AIG and Yesterday’s Classics).

    Hopefully you can get some good advice, Rachel

    November 24, 2010 at 3:38 am
    Sonya Shafer
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    Good question. My first thought was that it would be too easy for your 7th grader. However, I checked the Considering God’s Creation site and they include 7th grade in their age range. So if you emphasized the CGC materials, which are included in the 106 Days lesson plans for the older grades, you might be able to pull it off for all three students. If you wanted to do only the older two students, you could do just CGC as another option.

    November 24, 2010 at 4:30 am
    MamaWebb
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    thanks sonya and rachel.  my 7th grader also happens to be a VERY different kid from my 3rd grader.  my 3rd grader, a son, is highly distractable, very visual and fairly kinesthetic.  My 7th grader, a daughter, is auditory/verbal and a very typical firstborn, just give me the right answer so i can repeat it back to you kind of kid.  it’s hard to teach them together sometimes.  i just don’t want to turn them off to the wonders of science.  they both did really well with the very discovery-learning hand-on approach of KONOS.  it forced my older daughter to have to think and deduce and postulate and experience, and all of that played right into my son’s strengths and interests.  so i want to continue hands on, real life application, interest.  106 days really does look like a decent fit, especially when combined maybe with jack’s insects and maybe that nature stories book from queen’s homeschool?

    oh, sigh.  this homeschooling stuff isn’t easy, huh?

    love to you all, 

    amy

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