Discovering Nature Series: All Nature Sings by Sandi Queen

I have the Walk with Aunt Bessie book, but haven’t used it yet.  You can do more than one lesson a day for some of the lessons, others would take a longer time.  For example, one lesson might be read 4 paragraphs, the next lesson is color a sheet and the third is research a bug, write about it and include pictures.  The first 2 could be easily combined, the third might take longer.

The one thing that truly bothered me about this is that you are not allowed to make copies.  I didn’t know that before purchasing.  So for all four of my kids to use it, I’d have to buy 3 more books making Nature Study for the year $140.  Not going to happen.  Otherwise it’s a nice litte program as it guides you through nature.  You will, at times, have to do some prep and/or daily work such as investigate/study something on your own.  Because it’s a story format, you can’t really skip around in the lessons, you need to follow the order as written.  I can see it working well for some families and not for others.  

We have All Nature Sings – I have an almost 7 yo who is a good reader and likes working independently. He has loved it! Some things we work together on, some he does all on his own. Some of the activities he will do just one in a day, others are quicker and he will ask to do more than one. It is very adaptable to whatever style you work with IMO. It is laid back and not too strenuous, so it has been the perfect fit for us this year. Some of the activities are drawing, some reasearch (looking up things on the internet or in other books), some coloring – I like the variety of activities, and I like that it sends him to figure things out from other sources. I was hesitant about it at first because of the price for a consumable book, but I have been pleasantly surprised. If you have other specific ?s I’ll be glad to try to answer them.