LNC Posted January 9, 2009 Share Posted January 9, 2009 (edited) Is anyone interested in these? I read about them on the Yahoo group. The Astronomy sample is linked below. The author said they will be $25-$30 each. They will be spiral bound, so I would buy 1 per child. Pricey - bc I want to use all of her books: Astronomy, Botony, 3 Zoology, and the new Anatomy over the next 2 1/2 years. What do you Apologia Elementary science users think? Journals or regular old notebooks? https://backup.filesanywhere.com/fs/v.aspx?v=8d6a678f5a64a47da79c Edited January 9, 2009 by LNC Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Girls' Mom Posted January 9, 2009 Share Posted January 9, 2009 I like the look of them, but I'm not sure I'd want to pay $25 per child for them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clane Posted January 9, 2009 Share Posted January 9, 2009 I am just getting ready to begin this series with my children (well, DS. DD is 5 and will tag along in it) and I wish it were available NOW. I think this is a great way to begin the series, but after a book or two, then I would be more likely to forego it and just do the plain old notebooks. I does look like a simple start for mom though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
z2_mom Posted January 9, 2009 Share Posted January 9, 2009 Do you know if these are going to be available for sale directly from Apologia? I would love these for my little one. I simple don't have the time to be as creative as I would like. Something like this would make it so much easier for me, that alone is worth the $$$!!!! Lynda Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KIN Posted January 9, 2009 Share Posted January 9, 2009 Wow! These look really cool! I will get them if they have them out in time for the Anatomy book. Way better than what we did with a normal notebook. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christine Posted January 9, 2009 Share Posted January 9, 2009 I like the look of them, but I'm not sure I'd want to pay $25 per child for them. :iagree: but, I'd have to modify it to say I WON'T pay $25 / child for them. I have 2 kids that will be going through the books simultaneously. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LNC Posted January 9, 2009 Author Share Posted January 9, 2009 They will all be available by this summer - first will be Astronomy in the spring. Then the rest will come out. She said Apologia will have them first, but then any store that sells the books will sell the journals. I'm still not decided. Her website had the free notebook pages that look good too! I'll print them all out asap in case they stop offering the free pages, with the journals coming out. http://www.jeanniefulbright.com/notebookpages.html HTH! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lori in MS Posted January 9, 2009 Share Posted January 9, 2009 I have 4 children doing this series so I think it will be too much money for me. Once my oldest 2 begin the upper level science (in 2 years) I might get them for my younger 2. Will they really discontinue the free pages? I hope not because we use those a lot. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elegantlion Posted January 9, 2009 Share Posted January 9, 2009 We used the Astronomy book last year. We printed the notebooking pages but ds didn't like doing them. I can see how a journal would truly enrich the program. However at 25.00 a book that would put it out of the range of what I'd be willing to pay for a journal-type book. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
plain jane Posted January 9, 2009 Share Posted January 9, 2009 We used the Astronomy book last year. We printed the notebooking pages but ds didn't like doing them. I can see how a journal would truly enrich the program. However at 25.00 a book that would put it out of the range of what I'd be willing to pay for a journal-type book. :iagree: I printed out the free notebooking pages for dd and we do use them from time to time. She would just as soon use a plain sheet of loose-leaf and glue her illustration on after. I thought she would love having the fancy pre-printed pages. Knowing this, I wouldn't pay $25 for the journal pages, even though they do look very nice. Dd works on her notebook each time we do science and at the end of each week we work on our Astronomy lapbook. This is working well for us so far. I'd rather save the $25 for the journal pages and buy a nice experiment kit to complement our studies. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LNC Posted January 9, 2009 Author Share Posted January 9, 2009 No one has said anything about the free pages being discontinued. I'm printing them now in case though!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
plain jane Posted January 9, 2009 Share Posted January 9, 2009 No one has said anything about the free pages being discontinued. I'm printing them now in case though!! :lol: Those were my exact thoughts as I read through this thread.:001_huh: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lori in MS Posted January 9, 2009 Share Posted January 9, 2009 I thought Jeannie mentioned on the yahoo group that they would discontinue the free pages after a while, but not immediately. I could be mistaken. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FO4UR Posted January 10, 2009 Share Posted January 10, 2009 If it were reproducible for the family, I would be tempted. As is, I am printing out the freebies as well.;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RootAnn Posted January 11, 2009 Share Posted January 11, 2009 I had the notebook pages that are available on the Yahoo group files section printed and bound for very little $$. Knowing how little my kids used them, I wouldn't spend that money again. They would definitely not have used this journal. We do almost everything outloud because of my oldest's writing issues (she's "allergic" to pencils). That said, I love our SOTW Activity book with its coloring pages and map work. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
swellmomma Posted January 11, 2009 Share Posted January 11, 2009 I am excited about them, with 3 kids doing each book at the same time, it is nice for them to each have their own journal shwing wha they learned, and it is less work for me to have them preassembled like that. WHere as right now I have to print off 3 of each notebook page and put it all together for each child. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sweetbaby Posted January 11, 2009 Share Posted January 11, 2009 We used the free notebook pages that were available on the Apologia yahoo group when we used the Astronomy. I viewed the samples and honestly, I can't justify paying that amount of money for it. I would stick to the free pages or create my own. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pongo Posted January 11, 2009 Share Posted January 11, 2009 (edited) I did not read all the responses. We have used all the Apologia books in the series. We just started a Human Body study, I wish I had known she was coming out with one:glare:. I think it would be nice if she sold them a an e-book download. It would cost her less, and families would be able to purchase 1 e-book for the whole family:) Edited January 15, 2009 by Pongo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mommyof4ks Posted January 11, 2009 Share Posted January 11, 2009 That looks really neat, but I have 3 kids so it would get very expensive. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abreakfromlife Posted January 11, 2009 Share Posted January 11, 2009 We use the free pages from the astronomy yahoo group - the newspaper ones. My kids love those. We also have her free pages. Those look nice, but not that much different - I wouldn't pay that much money for them. I could sit down for a couple of weeks and design a bunch of blank templates and use them for all sorts of subjects. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
3babiesmommy Posted January 13, 2009 Share Posted January 13, 2009 I absolutely love the look of the journal, but like many others, I would have 2 kids in the same book at the same time, and $25 apiece...yikes! I agree with one of the previous posters, an e-book download option would be very attractive. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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