animals

This is the first review of our year of Winter Promise Animals & Their Worlds. When I saw the opportunity for this, I jumped on it for Kate, my animal lover. Tori and Alex are along for the ride. They love it too though!

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Here’s the curriculum I received:

Animals Combined Guide eBook $70
Burrows, Beehives & Beds eBook (preK-K) $39
Alphabet Fun Pack eBook (preK-K) $5
Habitats, Hollows & Homes Journal eBook (1st-4th) $39
Deep into Habitats Pack eBook $5
Animal Height Chart $10
Burgess Animal Book ($0 – only included in set)

Animals & Their Worlds comes in various sets to save you money and best fit your family’s needs.

Winter Promise offers LA programs that coincide with this science program!

Here’s our list of resources as required or recommended with the Winter Promise unit:

Ereth’s Birthday
One Small Square: Woods (Grandparents bought us the whole collection!)
Drawing Book of Animals
Glow in the Dark Fish
DK Animal Encyclopedia
Lost in the Woods
The World of Animals
Zoobooks
Ranger Rick
NatGeo magazine for Kids

We’re also using this with Alex:

animal songs on YouTube like The Iguana Song
Animal ABC’s preschool and toddler printables

This porcupine is becoming a family favorite. He reminds me of my dad. Oh, is it hilarious. There’s a second book too, that we had to get from the library. There’s a whole series about Dimwood Forest.

I cannot express how pleased I am with Glow in the Dark Fish. I had never heard of it before. It is a whole family Bible study, worshiping God through creation. It’s a book after my little naturalist heart. We’ve been in awe of God through spirals and Fibonacci and other patterns in nature.

Animal Encyclopedia and Glow in the Dark Fish

Liz and Alex drew spirals in spider webs and snail shells as I read that lesson.

It is ah-may-zing! The kids want to read it every day, but it’s listed on the curriculum guide as once a week. It’s a fave.

Katie was so excited when the mail came! She couldn’t wait to get her hands on that Animal Encyclopedia and started reading it while waiting for everyone else to get ready for water play.

I had to put it on a high shelf so she wouldn’t read the whole book! I am trying to follow a schedule here!

The World of Animals is an amazing book. I want this whole series! I love the Christian creation science and the different levels of reading. There’s a whole curriculum that goes along with this book, but that would be overwhelming. Right now, it’s working well for us as a science resource. Kate just reads it whenever she can.

We went ahead and completed the animal height chart (we’re supposed to do just the animal we’re learning about each week, but I didn’t have the heart to tell them no after we completed the construction and first sticker). The kids loved this so much! We also made little stickers for the kids and our cats.

Since we’re studying this with Alex (age 3), Kate (age 6), and Tori (age 7), I’m combining the curriculum guide to best fit our needs. There’s a master guide for parents. Then the guide offers two (very similar) options for kids: