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Grace&Chaos
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Posted: Oct 08 2010 at 10:30am \| IP Logged

Call me a total type A personality, but my mind is always planning. We are loving our science and nature studies this year. I'm thinking ahead to next year. I ran across this curriculum: signs and seasons.

The sample pages don't look like a text book at all. I can also see ourselves incorporating other living books and our nature journals with this. It seems very family read aloud friendly and my dd 10 can easily read independtly.

Has anyone used it? Even if you haven't being so new to CM I'd love to hear what you have put together for astronomy. I like to research the material/books we're going to use since most of it is being used/read for the first time. With so many littles I really have to take my time in planning. (if there is an old thread I'd appreciate someone linking me)

ps Apologia's Astronomy was what we were originally looking at as a spine

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Posted: Oct 11 2010 at 9:04am \| IP Logged

We started this book and so far are loving it. The back yard compass is the first project and now that a week of rain has finally abated we are looking forwrd to making it!

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Posted: Oct 11 2010 at 10:32am \| IP Logged

Shari, I'm so excited to hear you like it!

We have been living in our house for a year now (a suburb of Los Angeles). I have been enjoying how much more of the sky/stars we can see out here vs. living in the city and really want to study Astronomy next year.

Any thoughts on living books to use with this subject?

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Posted: Oct 12 2010 at 11:54am \| IP Logged

Jenny,
It seems to be very self-contained and you wouldn't need to add much. I'm using it with two ninth graders and a sixth grader and I haven't added anything yet. You might try http://charlottemason.tripod.com/elemsci.html. Scroll down for astonomy.

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Posted: Oct 12 2010 at 12:47pm \| IP Logged

Thanks Shari for the link. I found some old threads about astronomy so my living books list has started (especially for my 7 and 5 yr olds). I'm glad to hear you have a sixth grader doing the work, that gives me confidence that my oldest will do well with this.

Science: Astronomy file folder has started and growing

. Time to review and slowly buy or find out if my library carries some of these titles.

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Posted: Oct 14 2010 at 11:45am \| IP Logged

Well, to be honest, my sixth grader is mostly just along for the ride and I expect to go over this book again with him when he is older. Given the ages of your kids I wouldn't hesitate to shelve this one until later or just use as a reference for now. My hat is off to you! You really have your hands full!!

If you are looking for a hands-on astronomy curriuclum Apologia Astronomy might be a better fit for younger students. I've used their Flying Creatures text and it was alot of fun.

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Posted: Oct 14 2010 at 12:11pm \| IP Logged

Thanks for the heads up. I'm really considering this just as a spine/reference (for me and oldest dd)

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