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Tagged: Outdoor Secrets, Outdoor Secrets Companion, schedules, Seasons, topics

This topic has 8 replies, 8 voices, and was last updated 12 years, 3 months ago by psreitmom.

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August 5, 2011 at 8:02 pm
Ladyofthehouse
Member
I know there is already a modified schedule for Wisconsin on the links and tips page but I thought I’d also share the breakdown of the seasons/topics that I did. (I live in the South)
FALL
September-
Seeds Dispersment & Poems that mention September
Lessons 12-14
September/October-
Apples
Lessons 1-5
October/November-
Leaves & Water Cycle
Lessons 40-42
WINTER
None of the lesson were winter specific so any can be used
SPRING
March-
Seeds and Pussy Willows
Lessons 37-39
General Spring-
Robins & Nests
Lessons 21-24
Seeds/Planting/Pollination
Lessons 25-28
Planting/Seeds/Gardens
Lessons 34-36
Worms
Lessons 9-11
SPRING/SUMMER
Trees
Lessons 15-20
Dragonflies
Lessons 31-33
Non-Season Spacific Topics:
Cactus
Lessons 6-8
Woodpeckers
Lessons 29-30
Wasps
Lessons 43-44
Chipmunks
Lessons 45-47
Lifecycle of Tree
Lessons 48-50
August 5, 2011 at 8:07 pm
joannarammell
Participant
thank you!
August 7, 2011 at 10:37 am
Wings2fly
Participant
Yes, Thanks!
August 10, 2011 at 8:32 pm
Ladyofthehouse
Member
Just wanted to add that The Troubled Apple-Tree (Lifecycle of a tree, lessons 48-50) does talk about mistletoe so if you school during December it could be incorporated at Christmas time.
August 16, 2011 at 6:40 pm
ebcsmom
Participant
Thank you so much for this! I also live in the South and really needed this! You have been a great help!
Joy
February 28, 2013 at 5:16 pm
PackFam4
Participant
Thanks for breaking it down for me! We just ordered this and you’ve given a great idea of where we should start!
March 1, 2013 at 12:51 pm
Titus2mama
Member
Do they have each state broken down that way?
March 1, 2013 at 1:11 pm
missceegee
Participant
I just want to encourage you that it isn’t necessary to change the order of the book(s). While it is fine to line up the chapters according to season, it is also fine to simply read through the book allowing your children to make their own connections as they come up.
Don’t underestimate the child’s ability to make those connections by making sure everything lines up just so. We used this study as written last year with ds who was in 2nd grade. We live in Florida, but I didn’t modify the schedule, we simply went in order. Since that time, we’ve encountered many things that we learned about in Outdoor Secrets & had mental hooks on which to hang our new discoveries.
A Book of Centuries helps put history together, a nature journal can help with science and nature as it’s encountered. However, simply having mental hooks is also of great value.
Blessings,
Christie
March 1, 2013 at 1:41 pm
psreitmom
Participant
We are in PA. I want to get my daughter outdoors very soon. So, I am planning to begin 106 Days of Creation this spring snd do a corresponding nature study. That way we can start at the beginning and work our way through while the weather is nice to be outdoors. We should finish by fall and then in the winter we will do the section on man. When that is complete, we will take a break from structured science for the remainder of the school year since we will have worked through the summer.