Using only living books for science next year!! What do you think?

I’ve also gone back and forth between doing living books and/or something more laid out like 106 Days or Outdoor Secrets w/ companion guide.  I think I have too many ideas and I know I’ll overwhelm myself if I try to stuff too much in.  I’m planning on doing the Outdoor Secrets with my dd6 this year and doing 2 days a week to stretch it over the year, then still do nature study/journal day that is just spontaneous.  I think it will be enough for her age.  For second grade I think I’ll do more living books like the Burgess Bird book and Animal book and add in some activities to go with it.  Here’s a good companion site to the Burgess Bird book.  It breaks it down by chapter/bird with links to coloring pages with a few questions about each bird, more details about each bird including hearing its call/song.  You can also listen to the audio recording of each chapter of the Burgess Bird book there:   http://satorismiles.com/2010/03/08/burgess-bird-book-companion/ .  For the Burgess Animal book, or Among the People series, I thought about finding pictures of the particular animal to cut out or have her color if she wants and just copying a couple sentences about the animal that she found interesting to put in her nature notebook or on a notebooking page.  Anyway, I definitely think living books can be enough.  My daughter loved the James Herriott stories btw and wanted me to read them over and over 🙂  Hope this helps!

Holly, that looks really neat!  Thanks for sharing, I’m bookmarking that 🙂