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Back in June I received the complete Nancy Larson Science 1 curriculum to use with my 6 year old. You can read my initial post here. Now that the school year is well underway, we've been able to finish the first of the six topics that will be covered this year. We spent a month learning all about the stages of human life. The unit was made up of 12 lessons, each of which was fully scripted. Each lesson has a list of what you might need to prep before the lesson and what items you will need to gather from the curriculum. I love that I can just pick up the teacher's manual and read right from the book with very limited prep work. This makes teaching science easy and stress free.
Addie learned about life stages of humans, infant through elderly adult. The lessons involved using personal photos to discuss the different stages, which really helped reinforce what she was learning.
After each lesson there was a review worksheet in the student materials to check on student comprehension.
There was also a booklet that had a page designated for each life stage that Addie completed. This gives her a nice reference tool that she wrote and illustrated herself. Each of the six topics in Nancy Larson Science 1 has its own separate booklet.
After Addie learned about all the life stages, she spent two days working on a booklet. She spent a day looking through magazines and gathering photos of people, and another day making her book using the pictures. She really enjoyed this because it was a hands on project that she was able to do on her own.
We also spent three days learning about our habitat. We drove around town and Addie took pictures of different businesses and plants. She created a mural, which she hung in her bedroom, showing houses of friends, businesses, animals and plants that are in our community. Up next we'll be learning about plants, specifically trees.
