Living Science planning

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  • May 14, 2013 at 2:08 pm
    melindab72
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    I’ve been reading over the past threads on living books vs conversational books and although I’ve read a lot of helpful information I have a couple of questions.

    This year we have been plodding through Apologia Astronomy, and after ditching the notebooks that go with them we’ve decided to stop altogether. The girls, ages 8 and 10, just aren’t enjoying it. So I’m putting Apologia on the backburner for now, and we’ll just do living books for the next couple of years. I have to say it’s a bit disappointing to me, I had it in my mind that we would work through this-and-this and when they were in 8th grade they could start general science. I don’t really compare them to public schoolers at all except in the area of science. Why is that? LOL

    So I’m looking over the lists of living books and I’m just wondering about your plans and schedules. There are so many wonderful books on all diferent topics, I’m trying to get my mind around a cohesive plan. Would you start with Jack’s insects? And then should I just keep going on insects for awhile? And then what? When should I teach ocean life? Should I just mix them all up according to interest? It’s so much easier for me to fill in with field trips and experiments if I ON a subject for awhile.

    Thanks!

    May 14, 2013 at 2:11 pm
    melindab72
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    Also, do you read-aloud at this age or have them read independently? 

    May 14, 2013 at 2:22 pm
    Shannon
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    I can’t give advice from a strictly CM point of view bc I’m so new to it, but it seems to me if they are able to read on their own, I would have them read some to themselves but still (always) you read other books to them. I still read in the evening to my 16yo son and 13yo daughter but they are in public school all day. It is a great sharing time. The books you can read will be a harder level, maybe a novel (have you read Rascal?) and their books will fit their reading level. How does that feel?

    May 14, 2013 at 2:40 pm
    melindab72
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    We haven’t read Rascal yet, but it sure looks like a good read. I do read to them daily, our literature time, and history. I’m also wondering how much science reading kids do independently, and if they do read on their own, do they still do oral and written narration from this.

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