Simple Studies: Learning North American Animals with Thornton Burgess
Simple Studies: Learning North American Animals with Thornton Burgess
“Our family is always outdoors camping and on hunting trips! We love the outdoors the North America animal study has been perfect for us!!”
– Homeschool Mom of 3
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Simple Studies: A Charlotte Mason living science instructor handbook for K-4 students.
With Learning North American Animals with Thornton Burgess, students will cover science, reading, handwriting, spelling, narration, drawing or art among other areas of schooling. Each lesson offers a reading from The Burgess Animal Book for Children, a prompt for narration and art opportunities along with a list of picture books for younger audience and ideas for further study for older children.
Included in this study:
– 40 Simple Lessons that correspond with each chapter
– Picture Booklists for each lesson
– Chapter Review and Narration prompts
– Field Guide Recommendations, guidance and prompts for older students
– Handbook of Nature Study page guides
– Expansion Ideas to Further your study
– Review Questions
*This handbook guide is for teachers and/or parents to use with their students. Very minimal prep is needed and there are prompts and tips for the instructor for obtaining materials several weeks before they will be needed.
(Please note, this handbook does NOT include coloring pages like all of my other studies. Please see below for more info)
Teachers will need two items on hand to complete the lessons:
1) The Burgess Animal Book for Children by Thornton Burgess (other options: local library or free recording available on Librivox)
2) Small Animals of North America Coloring Book by Elizabeth A McClelland (one per student)
All other resources including field guides and picture books are listed as optional to complement each lesson.
“The question is not, -- how much does the youth know? when he has finished his education -- but how much does he care? and about how many orders of things does he care? In fact, how large is the room in which he finds his feet set? and, therefore, how full is the life he has before him?”― Charlotte Mason, School Education: Developing A Curriculum*
