Anyone used/seen this for a living books science core in early grades.

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  • December 17, 2009 at 10:50 pm
    mystika1
    Member

    Hi,

    I did a search and discovered these and thought I’d share.

    They are both written by the same person. I think this would work for my 6 year old. The second title would probibly work better for an older child. Anyone tried this before?

    Thanks,

    Penny

    http://www.gutenberg.org/files/18790/18790-h/18790-h.htm

    http://www.archive.org/details/songoflifemorley00morlrich

     

     

    December 18, 2009 at 2:36 am
    Cindie2dds
    Member

    No, I haven’t seen this before, but I really like the first one.  Thanks for the link!

    December 18, 2009 at 3:32 am
    Karen Smith
    Moderator

    Here are some other good living science books you may also like. They are by Arthur Ransome, author of the Swallows and Amazons series of books. He is an excellent writer who is enjoyed by children and adults alike.

    Arthur Ransome’s Nature Books for Children

    December 18, 2009 at 4:33 am
    crazy4boys
    Participant

    My 4 boys and I have really enjoyed the books by Clara Dillingham Pierson.  We started reading them when they were 5 or 6.

     

    December 18, 2009 at 12:19 pm
    Lesley Letson
    Participant

    My son loves the Thornton Burgess books. Amazon has most all of them in their 4 for 3 promotion and all the Dover Publications ones are around $2 ea. so you can get 3 of the small paperbacks for around $6. I would post a link like the rest of you have done, but I am not that technically savvy Smile

    December 18, 2009 at 2:36 pm
    mrsjamiesouth
    Member

    I bought all the Thornton Burgess books off http://www.homeschooldiscountproducts.com   for about $1.50 a piece.

    December 18, 2009 at 4:03 pm
    Lesley Letson
    Participant

    Thanks for the link to that site – they have some good deals! Just FYI if you are REALLY into Burgess (like my son seems to be) there are some other titles published by different companies than Dover that are offered on Amazon. They are not the “cheap” ones but they are in the 4 for 3. My little guy is a bit obsessed – he cried at the end of one of the books, not because it was sad, but because he didn’t want it to be over – so we’re reading it again 🙂

    December 18, 2009 at 4:28 pm
    mystika1
    Member

    Thanks for all of the great living book suggestions! I am a bit green to putting this together so I have a few questions. Can I schedule these readings into our school day and have my daughter narrate or use a narration cube and consider our grade 1 science taken care of? I can have her draw a picture for each story and add some copywork. Should I add a seperate science to this or would that be enough?

    Thanks so much for the help.

    Penny

    December 18, 2009 at 5:14 pm
    Cindie2dds
    Member

    Okay, I learn something new every time I pop in!  Penny, what’s a “narration cube”?

    December 18, 2009 at 5:21 pm
    mystika1
    Member

    Hi,

    http://f1.grp.yahoofs.com/v1/ELUrS6BabC9T61WiUBj5t7LsYqNBNJeKUcECLbb5K8AESNKHovxGgpHCKJP7zqNPTV2crbJz7ucYFPRVZlKYDJAlhkUjbkVowu0/Language%20Arts/Narration%20Cube.pdf

    A narration cube aids the child in the narration process. Once the cube is put together they can “roll the dice” and the child then tells about what is asked of them. My daughter is just beginning the narration process and responded very well to this cube. The link above has both a cube for younger and older children.

    Hope this helps,

    Penny

    December 18, 2009 at 5:25 pm
    Cindie2dds
    Member

    Penny,

    Thank you for sharing.  What an amazing tool!

    Cindie

    December 18, 2009 at 6:46 pm
    Cindie2dds
    Member

    We used this cube for our narration today.  Wow!  There are so many things I don’t realize my 6 year old doesn’t understand yet.  I explained the difference between plot and theme to her today.  Wow, thanks again, Penny!  Great tool for reluctant narrators!

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