Wednesday, July 18, 2012

Berenstain Bears Big Book of Science and Nature Unit Study





I haven't mentioned Lily, my kindergartner, much.  She is not really rolled into TOG.  I plan to do some basic handwriting, reading lessons and some unit studies mainly probably.  The first thing, which I'm digging into next week, is going to be a unit study using the Berenstain Bears Big Book of Science and Nature, a title I have used with each kid, from the time Zach used it with Sonlight in pre-K.  I no longer use the Sonlight plans, so I have just begun to set up a unit study outline using the book.  I put up my general outline on Google Docs if anyone wants to take a look.  Please comment if you do!  I would love feedback.

Since I'm starting next week, I do have my first week more fleshed out, and also uploaded that to Google Docs as well:  Berenstain Unit 1, Week 1.   I'm trying to mainly utilize what I already own, the library and what I already subscribe to (Evan-Moor Teacher's Filebox printables).  In addition to the Big Book of Science of Nature, I plan to incorporate The Year at Maple Hill Farm, another old favorite Sonlight selection, and DK Eye Wonder:  Weather.   Both of these selections are still used in Sonlight, it looks like, the first in P4/5 and the second in core 2.  Despite moving away from fully using Sonlight, I will always fondly recall their books, and continue to see their choices!





1 comment:

Lexi said...

I love the Sonlight book lists and borrow from them frequently!