Friday, October 12, 2012

Classical Conversations Cycle 1 - Our Botany Plan

Last week's classification of dicots and monocots was the beginning of our botany unit.  I purchased REAL Science Odyssey: Life over the summer and we are working through the botany lessons in it, but I wasn't completely satisfied with it. It's just simpler than I hoped.  So, I purchased Exploring Creation With Botany. We just did the first half of Lesson 1 (each lesson is very long).  I got the Junior Notebooking Journal as well and Bear is loving it!  I debated getting it, but am very glad we did.  We've studied botany with a Montessori approach in previous years (leaves, seeds, trees) and Bear is ready for more depth.  Exploring Creation With Botany is exactly what I was looking for in terms of depth.

Of course, I will have out on the shelves our DIY felt parts of the flower puzzle

and the parts of the tree puzzle

and I have plans to make the parts of the seed puzzle

and the parts of the leaf puzzle (there is a file here for a flower, tree and leaf puzzle that you can print to use as a model - or just to use as a paper puzzle).

image from Alison's Montessori

I am also looking at this 6-9 botany Montessori album.  It contains many ideas for activities and experiments to add to a plant study.  I'll add those in to our Apologia Botany as they fit.

I'll be adding more posts as we continue through Exploring Creation With Botany.






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3 comments:

  1. rachaelOctober 13, 2012 at 8:57 AM

    This is great! Thank you so much for sharing! (And for being ahead of the game :) How did you make your felt board??

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  2. The girl who painted treesOctober 14, 2012 at 11:08 PM

    The felt board you see in the flower picture - I made that by wrapping a piece of cardboard (I think I just used the cardboard that came with the frame) with the gray felt and putting it in a frame (the cheap $5 Walmart ones) from which I had removed the glass. You'll notice that we lost the frame and just unrolled the gray felt for the tree puzzle - I needed a frame for a photo and took back the frame we were using for the felt board!

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  3. AnonymousOctober 21, 2012 at 7:39 PM

    The first lesson in Exploring Creation with Botany is long and difficult, but they get shorter and easier after that! Thanks for your EXTREMELY helpful blog! I love it and it helps me prepare for tutoring CC and gives me great ideas for home :)

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