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Some ideas for beginner-young children field guides. Good ones--adult level can be pretty pricey. We've been quite sucessful starting out with a good regional bird guide and finding the following "beginner-type" used and cheap. As the kids grew older and discovered what subjects interested them most, we began spending money on more expensive adult level guides. Also, our local libraries have the major brands
not in every area but in enough to get the feel of which set up you prefer. We've used audobon, peterson, and others with sucess. Some of my friends (not really nature people) and their kids, who have tried the adult ones have been overwhelmed because of all the info. also, state parks if you live near one sometimes have a bunch for free or sale and you can look at before you buy. links below
hth a little
overview drawings
these two are for very young
this series has one almost in every topic
peterson has some young naturalist and another youth series (name escapes me now) ones that are easy to use for the young. My kids loved them.
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or maybe winters promise
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Looking back over the past 6 months...how do you feel you've been doing? What do you think will make you a better teacher? What will you change and what has been working?
I think I need to work on remembering that what methods excelled with one will not automatically be successful with another; not that I need new materials, but that I need to do something different with those materials. Also I "know" to concentrate efforts on strengths but sometimes it's easy to get sidetracked on the errors, especially in the business of a large household. Embrace the individual!!
What is going well here is we are consistant in covering the basics and have the rmaterials readily available for self-instruction, exploration and entertaining...don't ask me how housekeeping is going.
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you can sign up for newletters from ther site. They had some excerpts from this book awhile back in their newsletter--maybe there's an archive?
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hey i tried sending you a private message and I think i messed it up...don't know where it went, if it was deleted or sent....I'll try again later
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have your read the 6 volume originals? They really are what to look at--if the older english bothers you--there is an updated language version link off the ambleside. There is also a group that reads them thoruhg together. I really did not care for levison, but a lot of people do. Simply CM is another website a lot of people like. There is a book called real learning, a catholic mom's approach--she also has a blog, forums by the same name. I enjoyed that one as well as andreola's. Materamabilis is full of great ideas, too. I think reading the books themselves is better than the forum :) . There are the yahoo groups for AO, MA--AO also has a bunch for specific years, copywork, art etc. You know, based on all your posts you may like a LCCish (sub your Frensc) basics approach, with a CM everything else approach. Yes, I know I'm not being a philosophical purist here...Historically, I think she was a reaction to the overscheduled, pushy classical schools at the time--ifyou look at AO, MA upper years there is some pretty hefty intellectualwork going on--it is not light CM in the early years, pure Classical later, IMO. More of slow and steady with respect to development of child. Where do you want to end up? Now, which is the best route?
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have you read her blog http://holyexperience.blogspot.com/ it will give you a taste for her writing stlye and heart. Also there is another site for users the geography curr. There is a link off the preceeding site --don't really know what is there, though. We used the first one and enjoyed it. Kids love the notebooks they put together (I did my own thing, using this as one of our sources). Nice, solid earth science survey--believe there are samples there, too. Nice copywork passages included in her book as well, as well as ideas for further study. WE did a lot more than her book becasuse "I" wanted to---don't know that you would need to, depending on your student levels. The earth science topics are not exhaustive in this book, but if you are using it for young ones, you really don't need to cover it "all" hth some
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but they are not really historical
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If you really wanted it tied to history
the Holy Land one; ancients the Geology/Geography one is earth study not cultural
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What is the name of the classical ed book by Sister someone?
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plant fennel or dill and just wait for swallowtail larve. Fun and easy and more hands on than a kit. the kits are good, but not near as good as doing it yourself.
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a couple of thoughts. How about Barbra Taylor's Earth book Here's some lesson plans that are already made up (http://materamabilis.org/earthstudies.html) and Van Cleve's Weather/geography. Also look at any book of science experiments you have around--barometer, weather vane, cloud study(Tomie dePaola cloud book), wind speed, tracking daily weather via internet resources , we made mini storms via simple kitchen experiments..have fun
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http://www.dltk-kids.com/crafts/miscellaneous/scissor_skills.htm
http://www.tlsbooks.com/preschoolfinemotorskills.htm
http://www.kidzone.ws/prek_wrksht/cutpaste-seasons.htm
http://www.skillbuildersonline.com/SBA/Catalogue.asp?Current=Cutting+%26+Scissors
http://www.preschoolactivitybox.com/preschoolfinemotorskills.htm
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when i mentioned lingua mater, i meant the lessons from literature, not PLL/ILL. I meant the one to be used after ILL. Please forgive my typos above
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these books (pll and ILL) are very deceptive. there is a wealth of great ideas in them, yet at first glance, they seem un-rigourous. Well, they aren't exactly rigorours, but they are thought provoking. The writing assignments In ILL, especially, are really quite good, imo. They are not progym-type, but they are good assignment for practicing practical writing with a flair for beauty, if that makes sense. YOu probably do not need to add anything to your all ready full writing plan, but if you pick and choose assignments, vary which books you teach from, (ie--don't try to do everything in all the books you have planned) there are some really wonderful composition ideas. My children have responded really well to these assignments. I like the books a great deal. The systemic grammar instruction really is not in these books...the approach is more natural, internalizing good form. But you have grammar covered quite well with WT, French, ILL/PLL. I use many of the ideas from these 2 books, but I also do other things. I don't think I would try to complete ILL, CW, WT2 in their complete forms in two years. Well, to be honest I don't know how extensive the assignments are in CW-poetry and WT2, but it seems a lot....just curious have you looked at immitation in writing--poetry?wish someone would review it... and have you seen the sample of lingua mater? wish I could see more of that one up close. Happy Planning
Vanna...christian book for weather
in K-8 Curriculum Board
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haven't read it but there's one called weather and the bible