I seem to never get a chance to visit here anymore as I'm feeling pretty overwhelmed with life lately. I had to pop over to ask a question though. I went with Building Foundations of Scientific Understanding this year. I thought it would be great but it is so long and boring to read through and I just don't care for it. Does anyone have anything they'd like to recommend for 2nd grade science? It would be a plus if it would be something that might be interesting to my preschooler as well. Thanks so much!
Leissa, I could use either as long as it's fun, interesting, and not too time-consuming. Jo Anna, I will check into it. Thanks!
Creepy Crawlies and the Scientific Method. It gives you solid science and should keep a preschooler interested.
At that age, my kids loved Considering God's Creation. Lot's of cut and paste, hands on stuff with a music CD. Also very affordable. It's not quite as deep as I like on it's own, but it's very easy to add to for more "science-y" depth.
Dd loved Apologia Astronomy last year. She also really liked the Sonlight Science too. I guess my girl is just a science girl.
Thanks ladies. I'm not wanting to spend a lot more money right now so I'll have to check out all the suggestions and see about the cost as well.
I'm using BFSU as well although the higher levels. What I do is just read a few lessons ahead and take notes on what I want to do - What the lesson is, what questions to ask, what discussions to have, what experiment to do and what resources it recommends that I might read with it. Then I go from my notes for the next few weeks.
Beestar is helpful. DD has been using it for science. The worksheets are ccurriculum-based and problem-solving type, good to help kids thinking. DD loves it! Hope it helps. Lisa
I have used this http://www.christianbook.com/acsi-s...de=WW&netp_id=506018&event=ESRCG&view=details I only bought the book not the tm! It was colorful and easy to complete.
I tend to just pull things together (for both of my kids, actually). Tons of great websites out there, so you honestly don't have to spend much money. We love netflix but you can find lots of videos out there on youtube and other places as well. Honestly, it depends on your energy level and personality type. For September we did a plant month so we took composition notebooks and went outside, collected samples, talked about environmental conditions and why certain plants grew in certain spots. Then we talked about seasons, plant seeds, adaptations.... Honestly, at the ages of your kids, I wouldn't stress too much about having an official curric unless that's what you want (and I wouldn't blame you there, either ).
