Science- THE OUTLINE

So my goal is to have our first 12 weeks of school planned out and neatly layed out in an easy to manage format before the boys finish their last day at "real" school (their words not mine). So I have already downloaded all the free resources from Ambleside and have them in neat little folders by week. I am using the Green Hour Challenge for our Nature Study and I have divided 12 area and season appropriate challenges into our weekly folders, I bought the E-version of our Geography book so I can just print up each weeks lesson and put it into our notebook (I love having as much as possible in one place). So that is History, Geography, Literature, Natural History, Nature Study, and Poetry ready to go. So now I am working on Science. Now I know that CM purists would tell me Nature study is enough, or to just add some science literature etc but my boys LOVE SCIENCE! So here is what were doing

I took an outline I had found online years and years ago and am tweaking it for us. We are doing 12 weeks of animal studies and as my boys LOVE SCIENCE (did I mention this before?) we will be doing science at least four days a week.

So far my "spine" is the Kingfisher First Encyclopedia of Animals. I also am using Hands of a child animal classification pack and several free lapbook packs we found online for ideas for our science notebooks. We will be using science logs to track progress when raising a tadpole and a butterfly. Will have an ant farm and a worm farm. We have a VERY tiny library so I am going today to see what choices we have on each subject. I WOULD LOVE IDEAS, TIPS AND WHAT YOU USED COMMENTS to help me get the most out of this study!

Week 1- Habitat, Food Chain and Classification.

Week 2- Amphibians- Frogs and Toads

Week 3- Mollusks + Annelids + Arachnids

Week 4- Insects- Ants, Butterflies and Moths

Week 5- Reptiles- Alligators, Crocodiles, Turtles and Tortoises

Week 6- Birds

Week 7- Fish and Other underwater creatures

Week 8- Mammals- Giraffes, Tigers and Bears

Week 9- Mammals- Camels, Lemurs, and Elephants

Week 10- Mammals- Whales, Dolphins, Walruses and Sea Lions

Week 11- Pigs, Dogs and Cats

Week 12- Review and trip to the Zoo