Motsy802 Posted February 3, 2013 Share Posted February 3, 2013 Which science do you prefer? This is for a first grader by the way. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ewe Mama Posted February 3, 2013 Share Posted February 3, 2013 I have both and my kiddos prefer ES over Apologia. It's more hands on, which my little guys like. My eldest daughter loves Apologia, so she reads through it and does the note booking journal whenever she wants to. She can never get enough science! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skeeterbug Posted February 3, 2013 Share Posted February 3, 2013 We didn't start Apologia until 2nd, and I'm glad we waited. It's just a lot of reading, a lot of info. DS wouldn't have been ready in 1st. That year we used SL books, a bit of RSO, a bit of ES. We jumped around a bit and just had fun. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boscopup Posted February 3, 2013 Share Posted February 3, 2013 Apologia can be a bit much for 1st graders. I used it a bit with my oldest in first grade, and while he's advanced overall, he could only take it in VERY small chunks. By that summer, he was reading the books on his own and enjoying them. I used it some in 2nd grade, and it was a much better fit. My then-4 year old followed along some and enjoyed it (Astronomy), but I think the Zoo1-3 books would be way over his head. He likes looking at the pictures though! :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ByGrace3 Posted February 3, 2013 Share Posted February 3, 2013 I wanted to like Apologia, but it always seems too much. ES has been just right. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elizabeth rose Posted February 3, 2013 Share Posted February 3, 2013 For me, elemental because it is secular. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
violamama Posted February 3, 2013 Share Posted February 3, 2013 My 7 (first grader) and 4 (kindy) year olds just started Apologia Zoology 1 this week. So obviously I speak from great depths of experience. Ha. We like it, but we're sort of bent toward science and they've already had exposure to some of the ideas from memorizing grammar & doing experiments for CC, and going on science oriented family trips (volcanos, oceans, frog hunts, etc). I'm pretty sure the lessons will take us more than 4 sessions to work through and it is THICK with info, but I'm cool with that. I will be doing all the reading for a long while to come, though, because it's way above their level. We have found our monkeys actually zero in on a lesson much more when there's a bunch of meat there for them. Not sure if ES has that as well, but it sounds like it probably does. We like the notebook that came with our apologia text a LOT. Sounds like ES might have that part built in. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dahliarw Posted February 4, 2013 Share Posted February 4, 2013 I did Apologia last year with ds (first grade) and ended up hating it by about halfway through the year. It was just too heavy. We switched to ES this year and really like it. I do tweak it a bit to work for us. Basically, it's a great outline and schedule, and if you don't like the books she uses you can sub in another on the same topic, or swap out experiments (or omit them). I also combine the classical series with some of the ES lapbooking stuff from currclick right now. It's working really well for ds at the 2nd grade level. And it's "neutral" in terms of evolution or creation (though the author is a creationist), so it's easy to grab resources in addition that work either way depending on your families beliefs. I really hated with apologia that some of her "extra reading" books were evolution in assumption and she gave no warning. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SFM Posted February 4, 2013 Share Posted February 4, 2013 We had Apologia and we kept the textbooks because they are good to just read and/or for reference but we made the switch to ES. We like it, it fits us better, using the different books, an experiment and a few notebooking pages. I think it might use it again in the future, perhaps together somehow....HTH. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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christielee7278 Posted February 4, 2013 Share Posted February 4, 2013 We love ES more but like someone already mentioned, we kept the apologia books for the info. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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