We love Apologia science! I agree that the Young explorers series can be done through middle school. My son has a learning delay so there’s no way he’s ready for their middle school science next year. I also think the notebooking journals can be a lot and they seem advanced for K and 1st grade. My kids do enjoy the mini books 😀
We do: General in 9th Physical in 10th Biology in 11th Chemistry or Anatomy and Physiology for 12th...or both In the younger years Rod and Staff is excellent done independently. Apologia is fun as a group or independently. We own both and our children love the simplicity of Rod and Staff, and I enjoy picking a book and taking time teaching the group using Apologia or Considering Gods Creation (qn oldie but goodie). We add in Schoolaid Health books for our childrens independent work in 5th on up.
Great question! The Apologia Young Explorers series is designed to be completed over two days each week, and we usually follow that schedule as well. However, if you feel like the lessons are a bit too long for your 2nd and 4th graders, it's super easy to adjust. You can divide the two-day schedule into shorter, more manageable chunks over four days, giving you shorter lessons and leaving room for a buffer day if needed. That said, by sticking to the suggested schedule, each day typically only involves about 15 minutes of reading, so it may help to time how long each part is taking for you. Flexibility is key-don’t hesitate to modify it to suit your kids’ pace!
Would the Anatomy Curriculum be too challenging for a 4th grader (age 10)? You mentioned saving it till later, so I was curious. I was gifted this curriculum with a Junior Notebook and my son really wants to learn about the human body. What is the difference with the normal notebook and the junior notebook?
So if he is highly interested then I think it would be ok just maybe be willing to slow down a bit if it’s too much. The thing is you have nothing to loose by trying it, so I say go for it
I am using the younger notebooking journal with my 14 yo special needs kiddo because of all the coloring pages. She loves to color. But the writing lines are the primary lines and have the dashes. So I will probably put in Pride and Prejudice into my DVD player, the one with Colin Firth, and use my ruler and line out the dashes.
I don’t like dry audiobooks and I know my kids who just do science as I require it!!! We do family science on a loop and my science kid does it independent science as well!!! We love Video labs as well as doing them!!!
We do not use it anymore, not because I don’t like it but bc the daughter I was using it for needed to move to mastery approach math bc of some of her learning challenges
It has little sections sprinkled throughout that are called creation confirmation where they point to how certain things are confirmation of God creating the world.
