What ages do you read The Animal Book and the Bird Book to?
We have the Animal Book (not reading now) and while it is a more ‘fun’ way to teach science, we found it does get a little ‘too’ descriptive for the age of the child who would be interested. For example, my 10 yo could follow with the descriptions of the different squirrels, but didn’t like the book, thought it was to ‘young.’ The 6 year old who LOVES everything animals, couldn’t follow. So, not sure what the AIM is here>
For science, we do Apologia for the older grades 7th, 5th, 4th….But I am new to CM, and they have NEVER heard any of the Burgess books. My PK and 1st sure will. WOndering if I can have them all listening (dreaming, I’m sure) Apologia Anamoty is a lot!
I wish I would have done these great things with my older children when they were little, I feel pressured to ‘catch them up’ with these missed readings. Hard to let go of that…..Because I am reading Apologia to the older, we do not do science with the littles…. 🙁
Rethinking…..