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Do you think it would be ok to read these books for nature study to my younger kids 8, 5 & 3 by Burgess? We’ve done 2 years of a more indepth learning about an animal and studying it for a week or two. Though this might be a good time to just relax a bit with these fun books. Your thoughts?
I am reading them right now with my 7 and 4 year olds and we all are enjoying them! We are currently reading The Adventures of Chatterer the Red Squirrel.
We, too, do these for science. My boys, even at age 9 and 10 and STILL learning new things about zoology, animal habitat and behaviour, environments, weather, seasons, the list goes on, from these treasures. They narrate from them and even two years later, are still able to tell all they’ve learned (which is more than I knew going into high school, even though I got A’s in elementary science, LOL!)
We enjoy them, too (my boys are 6 and 7, and we have been reading them for several years now). Librivox.org also has several of them as free audio books as well.
For us, nature study is our science for now. They do some classes also at the local nature center, too.
Science is the study of Creation so zoology does fall in that category. Whether a book is age appropriate totally depends on your child. There is no right or wrong answer. If your child is learning then it is the right fit. 🙂
Side note: the definition of science based on modern standards is as follows.. the intellectual and practical activity encompassing the systematic study of the structure and behavior of the physical and natural world through observation and experiment. As you see zoology fits the bill. I dissagree on the experiment aspect because I feel some things need an experiment whereas others do not. Our experimenting would consist of personal observation of local animals, flying creatures, insects, plants, etc in their natural habitat ie: nature walk/study. I would never want myself or my children to perform an “experiment” on an animal. If it was needed to benefit human life one person on the earth could have done it and we could read about it. It is not necessary to do such things for the sake of fitting into another persons standard of what “science” is. I will add that those books were chosen because they are very informative as well as interesting.
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