Trilliumlady Posted March 10, 2019 Share Posted March 10, 2019 So I’m leaning heavily towards using Memoria Press Birds for DS who will be in 4th next year. He loves birds and has multiple guides already and when asked he said he’d prefer this Birds course to others I mentioned. My question is - it appears it is not normally used over a full year, but is combined with HIstory of Medicine. I’m not interested in this for him in 4th. Would it work to either: 1. Combine it with Mammals 2. Add something (? Not sure what this would be?) to stretch it out? Or 3. Use as is and just enjoy doing science once a week on something he loves and call it good. I’d love any ideas! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trilliumlady Posted March 11, 2019 Author Share Posted March 11, 2019 Awesome, thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hollyhock2 Posted March 11, 2019 Share Posted March 11, 2019 I think you could do it either of the 3 ways you listed, either combining it with something else, or stretching it out, or just doing it once a week. My son did some practical hands-on stuff when he did it (but it's stuff he does anyway because he loves birds) like putting up all sorts of feeders and bird houses. Or nature walks where you look for and identify different birds. Or just get all the bird books you can from the library. There are lots of those. My son really enjoyed this course. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trilliumlady Posted March 11, 2019 Author Share Posted March 11, 2019 Oh my goodness I am so excited for my son to do this course. So good to hear others like it so much. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheAttachedMama Posted March 12, 2019 Share Posted March 12, 2019 We just received this course in the mail yesterday. (The complete set. OH MY, it is even cooler in person. Memoria press makes the *BEST* nature study programs. We have done their astronomy and bug programs. We do it all in one long day each week. First, we do indoor stuff. (Drill birds and songs, do the readings, etc.) After that, we go out in nature. We have found that inviting friends on our walk helps us stay accountable to our plan. I am the type of person who will often skip nature study when I feel we are "behind" in our other subjects. (And quite frankly, we are always "behind".) hahaha So meeting others up at the nature area REALLY helps. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
teachermom2834 Posted March 12, 2019 Share Posted March 12, 2019 We are doing Birds next year too. I didn’t really research it, we just follow the Core and that is what is scheduled. We got the books last week and are excited. 🙂 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
2_girls_mommy Posted March 13, 2019 Share Posted March 13, 2019 We LOVED MP birds. It was one of my favorite school years. The year we did it we did birds several other ways to make it fill a lot of our year. We decided to learn about birds and help them with scouts that year too for my dd's bronze award project . First thing we did was find a local Audobon society. We attended a few meetings and then participated in the Christmas Bird Count census with them. Then there is the Great Backyard Bird census in February. We participated year, years later still. Then dds got birdhouse materials donated from a builder's store and gave a birdhouse building class to younger scouts and taught them about how to help birds with what they'd learned. That was a big project. Then, our co-op was doing an Apologia Flying creatures year which worked out perfectly. So my ydd did that class and notebook with them. It covered other topics besides birds, but there was a lot on birds. This also provided a lot of experiments that MP doesn't give. It also included reading lists for literature that we used to make it a bird year in as many subjects as possible. It actually was a really good compliment, especially the notebook. I liked it better than the MP workbook, which we mainly did orally. And to finish our year we went to the extension center of our local community college which has a program of lending incubators and eggs to schools and from them we hatched two sets of eggs, quail and chicken. We also found several spots for bird watching (some we learned from the Audobon society and wouldn't have found if not for them!) And we went often with our Peterson coloring field guides. We did that bird year 6 years ago, and we still take our field guides and go birdwatching. That year made a big impression on us. One of my favorites ever. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
knitgrl Posted March 13, 2019 Share Posted March 13, 2019 Thank you for bringing this curriculum up - I totally forgot it existed. We have a bird-lover here, but I guess I would have to wait to use it since he's 5yo right now. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ScoutTN Posted March 20, 2019 Share Posted March 20, 2019 The Cornell Ornithology site has loads of teacher resources for all ages. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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