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Apologia general science
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Having now used the text, I can see where the text doesn’t have to take 2 school years to get through, but it did for us. Like I said, I don’t really know why. My guess is not having the lab supplies ready and my ds waiting to gather supplies, etc. or having a schedule til he was much further into the text. It also seemed like for us that my ds matured greatly over this past year and can handle so much more than previous years. I’m talking about reading for himself (he has vision problems) and working on his oral narrations, so I read to him when he first began the text, which meant he had to wait on me. I think if you stick to a good schedule, decide if you are going to do each experiment (and get the supplies ready ahead of time), then 1 year is sufficient. I’m hoping with my next ds that we don’t take as long, but….
I had asked many questions about this text before we used it and received lots of encouragement to take our time through the text (that has its pros and cons), if it took 1, 1 & 1/2, 2 years, so be it. This was also my first ds and I have to admit that he has been our guinea pig. We transitioned to CM quite awhile ago but it seems to take awhile for things to sink in (I’m talking about me here) and he has had to wait for me to figure things out. Also, he is very involved in an afterschool program that has taken up much of his time in the evenings (which we don’t regret, btw). He could’ve taken a co-op class for this text in 7th grade but the teacher zooms through everything and I knew that would not be for him. He’s not much on getting through something just for the sake of getting through it if he doesn’t truly understand and it’s too frustrating to keep up w/ others.
Not sure if jlstrictland’s post was in response to mine, but this is my response.
That’s the beauty of homeschooling, isn’t it? We can customize everything. 🙂 My daughter didn’t read fluently until 6th grade. She’s a huge science geek (so am I), so I read most of the texts to her. I’m very relieved that she reads her science herself now, but we still read history together because we enjoy the time together… any my little guy gets something out of it too.
When we were doing science on our own, my work got in the way a LOT. We rarely completely finished a book before we moved on to the next. I regret that now, but that’s how it went. I know many families that completely skip the experiments because of the effort to collect supplies. I’d rather spread out the curriculum than skip the experiments. That’s what kids enjoy and learn from the most, so kudos to you! You’ve done a wonderful job.
CM does take a while to sink in. I’m still learning new things constantly and always wonder how much of a grasp I have on this method. It’s foreign to most of us who grew up attending public institutions.
I was just posting an overall response after reading all of the posts on this thread. I found it all very interesting. I hope you can just pick an choose from what helps in my post.
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