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If you are doing a unit on navigation/and or would like a living book about Math this one is a winner!
It is set right at the end of the Revolutionary War and my boys don't want me to stop reading...that is the best sign of all!
Not sure how to just put the book's name and have that be a link??? http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0618250743/qid =1127851493/sr=8-1/ref=pd_bbs_1/103-9476236-1860601?v=glance &s=books&n=507846">Carry On Mr. Bowditch
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Laura,
I read this to my children when my oldest was 13 ( he is now 24! lol!).
They loved the book.
Thanks for the reminder.
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Laura wrote:
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Yes, could someone please tell me how to do that too???
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almamater wrote:
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There is a helpful list of frequently asked questions in the help section. The one that explains how to include a link with name is the 4th post down. Where is says type the 'link text" that would be where you would type the title of the book that you were trying to include in your post.
And the Mr Bowditch book was popular here too, with my older sons. For the oldest it definitely opened up an interest in navigation fiction which was his topic of interest for quite some time.
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Ladies:
How old (or, I guess young) are we talking for enjoying this as a read-aloud. I'm currently reading Hobbit to Thomas and Maggie along with the Burgess Book of Nature Lore, after just finishing Charlotte's Web, but I'm trying to nudge us out of the nature "rut" and branch out a bit.
Any age range for this one?
THANKS!
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I am reading it to my 9 and 14 year old and we are all enjoying it immensely. Maybe it would work well a bit younger then 9, but 9 on seems about right to me as there is a lot of sadness in the book. Many people that Nat cares about and love die, but death is part of life so....
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Thanks Mary M. in Denver! 
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I would recommend the movie, The Search for Longititude (or something like that). It is on video and was shown on Nova a few years ago.
Prior to the discovery of longititude, ships would sail in hopefully a straight enough line and reach their destination. But, due to weather, currents, etc. they could end up 1000's of miles from their destination. Gives a new appreciation of the explorers.
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Mary -- Thanks for this mention about the Nova show -- it's called Lost at Sea: The Search for Longitude -- this PBS site has great info about the movie and this is a great "study guide" for the movie. Seems it was based on a novel by Dava Sobel called Longitude.
This is grat stuff as we're working on the explorers and early American history (using the "This is Our Country")This Country of Ours and she goes into alot of the early explorations, some I'd never heard of (Ribaut in Florida????)
This is great! THANKS 
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Another great thing that I forgot to menion about Bowditch is that Nat keeps notebooks on everything he learns and it expounds on how detailed his notebooks are. He has a different notebook for every new thing he studies. Very CMish!
I kept stopping whenever they mentioned them to encourage the boys to do the same. Hopefully they Nat's enthusiasm will be contagious.
The study of Latin also plays a big role as he is trying to learn both Latin and French so he can read certain books.
It is just amazing to me how perfectly this one book fits into our CM education goals.
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If you are interested in navigation you might want to consider contacting the US Coast Guard or a Sea Scout ship (affliated with the Boy Scouts) for more information.
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Mary G. wrote:
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Mary,
I just have to ask...was this a pun? 
Going back to hibernation,
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ladybugs wrote:
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Mary,
I just have to ask...was this a pun?
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Maria:
I'd like to take credit for a clever pun, but actually it's just been that kind of day..... 
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On the subject of longitude, there's actually a children's version of the Sobel book, called "The Longitude Prize". Actually, I'm not sure if it's an adaptation of the adult book or not, but it's definitely a children's book and follows the same story line. I read it and enjoyed it, and my ds enjoyed it, too. Gave us a whole new appreciation for what the sailors of the time had to cope with.
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Side note to the subject of longitude...if you are planning a trip to London, you MUST take your children to Greenwich...home of the Prime Meridian. They have a great museum at the observatory, with Harrison's original longitude-finding instruments. There's a lovely maritime museum near the docks, too, that often has stupendous special exhibitions. It's a great daytrip by boat from London.
I loved seeing everything...but I must admit, the highlight of the trip for me was watching my son leap back and forth across the Meridian, saying, "Now I'm in the eastern hemisphere! Now I'm in the western hemisphere!"
Hands-on learning at its best. Priceless.
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guitarnan wrote:
I loved seeing everything...but I must admit, the highlight of the trip for me was watching my son leap back and forth across the Meridian, saying, "Now I'm in the eastern hemisphere! Now I'm in the western hemisphere!"
Hands-on learning at its best. Priceless.
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That's great! Isn't military life great for that hands on learning? Of course it would be even better if I were more outgoing, but still all those different duty stations provide lots and lots of different opportunities.
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There is an interesting article about the establishment of time zones and the Prime Medidian in the December 2004 issue of American History magazine.
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Just wanted to mention that Dava Sobel wrote "Longitude" (the one the Nova program is about) but about 5 years later, she co-authored The Illustrated Longitude which has the same text, but (duh ) is illustrated. I just picked it up from the library and it is gorgeous! I'm going to read it as background (as we won't start this unit for a couple of weeks) but may read parts to the kids -- yes, it's that readable!
Enjoy
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When we toured Harvard this summer, I noticed a big plaque in the Dining Hall dedicated to Nathaniel Bowditch. Kind of cool.
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We watched the DVD Longitude -- it's got Jeremy Irons as a post-WWI commander who has had a nervous breakdown but is fascinated by the work of John Harrison to get the clocks to work for the Longitude prize. The movie goes back and forth between early 20th and mid-18th....the story is so riveting (but long, two nights' worth) that the WHOLE family enjoyed it (ok, maybe not the 3 yos)....it's great for understanding what it all took to get longitude!
Enjoy
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