General and Land Animal Science Annual Review

General Science

Liz completed General Science this year. She has completed the entire elementary series. And now the girls are working through it! I love everything about it.

General science gives a great overview of all the sciences. Liz especially likes physics and can’t wait for that program {in a few more years}! We’re starting physical science after summer break.

I got the journal for Liz to keep all her work together. She has organization issues and there’s a handy little schedule in the front that she would just check off each assignment as she completed it.

Dad’s a scientist. He helped lots this year with Liz and her experiments. He extended some of them to further teach her the concepts well.

 Liz liked the simple experiments. Even when they go wrong {or Mama doesn’t have the correct type of toilet bowl cleaner, sigh}

She was much more successful making this DNA strand model out of pipe cleaners.

We still have this baby taking over my kitchen windowsill, sprouting plenteous roots.

Liz enjoyed the anatomy lessons too. And reading sideways on the floor apparently.

Land Animals Science

The girls are still plugging along with Land Animals and we hope to finish over the summer. I focused more on math and language arts with them since they’re only just turned 6 and 7.

The girls absolutely LOVE these journals. It’s like notebooking and lapbooking all in a great spiral notebook.

We kicked off our school year in science by taking Tori and Kate to the zoo for a special primate event. We had lunch with staff and and special animal guests.

We even got to help the primate keeper with enrichment for the lemurs!

The lemurs get excited with drawings on the windows of their habitats.

Here’s the girls’ recent reaction to learning about rumination (chewing cud).

ew!

The girls really enjoyed our map work (learning where the animals live in the world) and learning the animals’ footprints at the end of each chapter.

We played games and completed most of the experiments or crafts.

Kate is rather obsessed with animals and I often find her reading an animal encyclopedia rather than doing what she’s supposed to be doing.

Since they’re studying Latin now, they’re fascinated by learning the proper taxonomy names.