Burgess Seashore Science - Unit 1

We are going to go use the Thorton Burgess Seashore Book as our living book for science for the first 9weeks of Z's 2nd grade year. We are going to do some narrating, note-booking, & mini- lapbooks to go along with what we read about and also experiments from Super Concoctions book.

I haven't seen anything done specifically with the Seashore book, so I am having to pull this all together myself. We are trying to follow the format somewhat how HOD does science but we are flexible and tailoring it to our liking. HOD stands for Heart of Dakota publishing. We love, love, love the curriculum, but as with anything, we are tailoring it to our needs and wants just a little bit. We will be using Bigger Hearts for His Glory for 2nd grade, Beyond Little Hearts for His Glory for 1st grade, and Little Hands to Heaven for PK3.

This blog is an attempt to keep all the science plans and resources together for myself and for others who may be interested in doing something like this.

We will usually read 4 chapters a unit and the 5th day will be for the science experiment.
We will be checking out a few library books such Animals of Sea and Shore & At the Ocean.
The Kingfisher First Animal Encyclopedia is one that we own and we use alot in our science studies.

The first unit will look something like this:
Day 1    Chapter 1     Narrate
Day 2    Chapter 2     Mini-lapbook (Sandpiper)
Day 3    Chapter 3     Narrate in some form (Tattler)
Day 4    Chapter 5     Notebook -DWN pg.49 
                                (Draw WriteNow book #6) (Hermit crab)
Day 5    Super Concoctions Experiment (Brine)

We are trying something else new this year. We are going to do school 4 days a week and the other day will be for catching-up, free day, playing with friends, or fieldtrips. We school year-round.
We are flexible. :)