You will need the books listed in the sidebar. The Evan Moor books and the Animal Habitats by Judy Press are books you would need to purchase as they are used multiple weeks all year. The Wildlife habitats book by Emily Stetson is needed if you have older children or want to do these extra activities.
The One Small Square Series of books by Donald Silver is good to have but as each one will be used for only 2- 3 weeks they could be gotten from the library. The order they will be used, starting week 2 is this:
African Savanna-9/15, 9/22 & 9/29/08
Woods-10/6, 10/13, 10/20/08
Tropical Rain Forest- 10/27, 11/3, 11/10/08
Cave- 11/17, 11/24, 12/1/08
Hibernating Animals -One Small Square is not used this week, this is a spin off unit 12/8/08
Review and this week will be used as a Christmas Party for in person class and a surprise lesson or activity for online users. 12/15/08
Christmas Break no lessons posted 12/22 or 12/29/08
Winter schedule is subject to vary due to snow days for the in person class. The Swamp lessons will be condensed or left out altogether if there are snow days. These WILL still be posted online. The dates you will need the books may vary though due to snow days or cold and flu days on my part so consider these approximate:
Arctic Tundra- 1/5, 1/12, 1/19/09
Cactus Desert- 1/26, 2/2, 2/9/09
*Swamp* dates may vary 2/16, 2/23* 3/2/09
* 2/23/09 is winter break for in person class I may still post online
** Seashore and coral reef will be a combined lapbook**
Seashore approximate dates 3/16, 3/23/ 09
Coral Reef approximate date 3/30/09
Pond- 4/6, 4/13, 4/20/2009
4/27/2009 Spring break! no lesson
Backyard- 5/4, 5/11/2009
Review, end of year party 5/18/2009
The Draw Write Now series books 6,7,8 will be used occasionally. Many homeschoolers already have this set or another drawing curriculum on their shelves.
If you do not already own these you may be able to get them from the library or find an alternative animal drawing lesson online or from your own drawing curriculum those weeks.
Again this is subject to change due to snow days or sickness. I expect this to be the general plan though.
In the case of lapbooking graphics and templates I will attempt to point you towards a free online source when possible such as homeschoolshare. Some homeschoolers may already know how to make certain graphics or folds on their own.
A subscription to Enchanted Learning will be very helpful http://www.enchantedlearning.com/. Also I will be using http://www.edhelper.com/ but it may be that only people with older children would need a subscription there or perhaps what I suggest may be found in their free materials.
Although this study has a specific start and end date you may start at any time, take breaks as needed and come back to the plan when it works for you. Just start back at the post number where you left off.
If you or your children have any questions please post them under the correct week and I will answer them.
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2 comments:
Hi, Jodi!
We haven't actually started your study yet...Planning to begin next week...But I am SOOO excited and thankful for this plan you've put together...I purchased the whole one-small-square series last year for my 11yo ds but couldn't figure out how to utillize them them for our science study and now here you've done all the work! :) Thank you so much for doing this and for sharing with the rest of us...You are a blessing!
Bev (from SHS lurkdom)
Glad that you'll be able to use this material. Let me know how you get on! I really enjoy the One Small Square series.
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