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For those who have done 106 Days and/or Considering God's Creation
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Hi everyone,
We’re in the process of organizing our grade 1 year of schooling, and I’m stuck on a science curriculum. At first I was leaning towards doing 106 Days of Creation Studies followed by Considering God’s Creation and then getting into the Noeo Sciences.
On further exploration of 106 Days, I’m wondering if it’s too young earth creationist for our family. I did notice that the book choices for the dinosaurs had definite leanings towards this, but that is easily substituted. My question is about how often that arises in the curriculum. We’re old earth creationists, but I’m certainly happy to expose the children to different views on the subject, so it doesn’t bother us to have some mention. I guess my issue is that I don’t want to spend the money on a curriculum only to be changing every other lesson to better suit us. On the other hand, I love the book choices and it seems like a really nice introduction to science, with great Christian values.
What do you all think? Is there a definite theme of a young earth in 106 Days (also Considering God’s Creation I have the same questions about)? Should I just jump right into Noeo? We’re working through Outdoor Secrets currently, so this would be for after that.
Thank you kindly for all of the help in advance! I hope that I haven’t offended anyone with different beliefs. We most definitely respect that others have different interpretations of Genesis, we just want to find something that aligns with our family’s beliefs.
Thank you again,
Rachel
Hi Rachel,
We are currently using 106 Days for first grade. The lessons concerning the dinosaurs only make up a day or so. Two of the books are optional and I think it would be easy to substitute other books for the one that is suggested if you wanted to. The content of 106 Days doesn’t lean toward either view of old/new earth as far as I can tell (or remember). My ds6 has absolutely loved all the lessons — he asks to do science as his first lesson of the day. I think it is a great introduction to science for younger ones and the experiments and weather charts, etc. that he has done has made him hunger for more. We have actually bought quite a few of the books that were called for in the lessons (after checking them out of the library) because he was so interested in them and then we searched on the SCM Bookfinder to find others about the same topic/person that were for his level. He has also grown very fond of the Burgess books that are used in the lessons (Blacky the Crow, Old. Mr. Toad, and Buster Bear) and we have read 4-5 of the other ones in the series — the amount of knowledge about animals and nature that he has gained by just reading those books amazes me. We are planning on using Apologia science for 2nd grade and beyond, but I don’t know how Apologia treats the old/new earth views. I hope this info helps. Blessings on whichever curriculum you decide to use. Zelena
I didn’t mess too much with the dinosaur lessons since we have already learned about them in other studies. I do not think that there was much emphasis one way or the other. Whenever we read a scripture, it was left to us what we choose to focus on, although there was suggested ideas. I think that SCM has done a wonderful job of giving the scripture references, but letting us as families decide how to teach the doctrine.
Like Zelena says, the books are wonderful. We also purchased them and I find my kids re-reading them all the time. And we adore the Thorton Burgess books – we have learned so much from them!!
I think that you will find 106 Days very similar to OS in layout and suggested lessons – and if you are enjoying that, then you would enjoy 106 Days.
I agree that it is very much a Christian perspective, but it let’s you work out the details of doctrine. For the Dinosaur part, we added the book “The Dragon in the Cliff: A Novel Based on the Life of Mary Anning” by Shelia Cole. We used it as a jumping point as to what other people believe about young earth vs. old earth and why we don’t believe it – you could easily use that book in the opposite way. She lived in a time period when many people had a young earth view point, but she and many others (including Mary Anning) were beginning to have an old earth view point. Aside from the young earth vs. old earth, the book was facinating, and went into great detail about how she discovered the fossils, how they dug them out of the rock, how difficult it was for her to be recognized for her accomplishments because she was a woman/girl etc. My son was in 2nd grade when we read it and my daughter was in K, and both loved the book.
Just a thought of something you could use to substitute the more creation based books.
Thank you kindly everyone, this has been such a big help! We definitely want a Christian perspective with creation, but are glad that the doctrine is left more to parents to teach. Thank you for that book suggestion Laura! I am definitely looking into that one!
Hi Phobo,
We are currently doing 106 days of creation and LOVE IT! I have a K/1st grader and they absolutely beg to do Science!=-) If you do end up going with it I’ll be done with ours in May and have the manual, all the Moody DVDs as well as Considering Gods Creation that I’d be happy to sell you for a very reasonable price. Let me know if you or anyone else for that matter is interested! Happy Planning!
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