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Tagged: Apologia Zoology schedule, science

This topic has 4 replies, 5 voices, and was last updated 10 years, 9 months ago by Zelena O’Sullivan.

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July 31, 2014 at 7:55 pm
Michelle Brumgard
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I’m working on my second graders schedule. Inside the jr. Notebook, I notice their is a schedule template for the 14 lessons. Who has done this science? Did you follow this schedule for science twice a week or should I break each day in half for four days of science? I’m wondering if the lessons get to long with the twice a week setup. Experience? With this being our first year and knowing I thrive on checklist, I need guidelines.
July 31, 2014 at 8:10 pm
memomo7
Participant
Hello!
I have not used the notebook schedule for Zoology 1, but I have used the junior notebooks that go with Astronomy & Botany. In my opinion the two-day schedule requires a lot to do in one day (especially for a 2nd grader) and if you are able to do science four days per week then do so. You should still have plenty of time to finish the book in a typical school year.
Hope this helps!

July 31, 2014 at 8:19 pm
sarah2106
Participant
We did Apologia last year, our first year with it, and we really enjoyed it. I was having a hard time figuring out how to plan to use it so I purchased a Daily Lesson Plan from RR (http://www.rainbowresource.com/product/sku/034871/c6259b7b57b05aaa771da94b) and it was such a great help! We did Science 3 days/week. The schedule never felt like “too much” and she includes days to do the experiments. It is very simple, just a few pages long, but a very valuable tool for my needs

I also like that it is by day not week. So that way I never felt behind. We actually finished earlier than planned because the kids enjoyed Science so much.
August 1, 2014 at 1:16 am
Alicia Hart
Participant
This is a great resource, Sarah. Thanks so very much!
Last year we did Apologia Astronomy and I kept feeling guilty that we had to break the lessons into smaller chunks – glad to know that I was not the only one. We are doing Apologia A and P and they have a Daily Lesson Plan for that one as well….looks like exactly what we need.
I cannot wait to get this resource – thanks again
August 1, 2014 at 12:29 pm
Zelena O’Sullivan
Participant
We did astronomy last year with second grade. I didn’t follow the suggested schedule because I thought it seemed like a little too much. My son loves science though and asked to begin with it every morning so I took advantage of that. I would read and have him narrate and usually he would work on the notebooking pages (coloring and copywork) as I read. I tried to keep the lessons to around 30 minutes but if he really wanted to go longer I would let him go until I could see him growing tired and then we’d move on to something else. I would try to save the experiments and most of the notebooking activities for Fridays since we have mostly fine arts and “fun” things on that day. We would end up doing science five days a week because he always asked for it and we finished the astronomy book with about four weeks to go in the school year so he began zoology 1 at that point.