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This is a main resource for Lit for the Young Lady. If you are following along with Serendipity's plans and are using this book, would you be willing to share a little bit more about it?
It doesn't have a "peek inside" option at Amazon. I can't tell from the description what its like, and I don't have a clue how to use it. I'm hesitant to buy it without a bit more information.
If you are using it or have it, can you help?
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I have this book. This is from the author's website. Each of the family pages includes pages from the book, so this should give you an insight to what is inside.
We've really found this book helpful.
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Maryan, thank you so much! This is incredibly helpful. Would you say that a course could be built then around the 7 major families that are discussed in each chapter?
Are you using it as a text?
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Oh I'm sure. Especially if you were drawing etc. I think Rebecca did something like that and has pictures on her blog when she studied it? I believe that's what prompted me to buy the book. I know there's a thread here discussing it somewhere. I'll look.
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Here it is: Botany in a Day
We were discussing BIAD and its little kid book Shanleya's Quest. SQ is genius in its way of presenting the patterns of each family -- but its totally from an evolution/living things have spirit kinda take. So I skip a lot.
Rebecca has a link to little kids lists that she compiled and if you hunt around her blog -- you can see the Botany stuff that she did with her older kids too.
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Oh and because of these books, my kids can spot Mustard, Mint, and Parsley families very very well. (We do not have a well weeded yard, so there's tons to identify.)
And they're pretty good at the Rose family too.
Each year we take a little time to study some more botany. The boys like it.
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I'll add my high praise for Shanleya's Quest as well. I loved it, my kids loved it, and we've remembered the information for over two years as is evidenced by their ability to figure out which plant family many new-found specimens belongs to. (I also edited some of the weird spiritual content.) I read this book aloud, made review sheets from the wildflowers-and-weeds website mentioned above, and covered about one plant family per week until it was finished.
We also have Botany in a Day, buy haven't ever gotten around to using/studying it.
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Botany in a day is a great resource, even for the experienced botanist. I learn something every time I use it with the kids.
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I finally got a chance to view the older thread and Rebeca's blog. Wonderful!
I don't know how I missed this thread to begin with.
Now I'm thinking maybe I'll have everyone else study botany too the year that my dd studies with Lit for the Young Lady. This looks doable.
Thank you all so much!
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This is our 3rd year spending some time on Botany and I highly recommend both books discussed. This year we did an herbal focus. I ordered the Herbal Medicine Making Kit from here learning herbs and also their Wildcraft herb game. I used these with the book A Kids Herb Book. We learned soooo much. We are finding so many useful things in our backyard and garden that can do wonderful things. I gave the boys kind of a survival slant to it to make the study more interesting to them...if you are out on an adventure and get stung by a bee look for this and chew it and apply...sort of thing. I was a little unsure of spending the money on the kit, but I definitely am satisfied!
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