Love the comments, I'm switching my daughter who's in the 6st grade to Apologia this next year. I've been on the fence about it but yes, I'm going to do it! Thanks for this review. 🎉Science is her strongest subject.
Have you heard of Science in the Beginning? It’s by the same author (Jay Wile) of Apologia series. It’s the same style but not on one topic for the whole year. This specific one goes through the 7 days of creation, so variety of topics and lots of hands on experiments! It’s for k-6 and has discussion questions for younger, older and oldest students.
I have been looking at AES every year, but there are just not enough in depth reviews. Very excited to see you talk about this curriculum more. I taught science for a few years and I still have a few wire hangers from a professional development session, they are so hard to find in small quantities! Having your supplirs done for you is brillant. Would love to see an update after using if the predone kit is worth it. Thanks for sharing.
We love Apologia and the Nature's Workshop plus lab kits!! I don't think you will be disappointed picking this curriculum! We actually finished 2 books this year. We did 1 entire lesson every friday on my day off and we spent 1-1.5 hours total doing the entire lesson, notebook and experiments. So i think you may find you can do a little more and just do 1 day a week and still complete in your school year.
I'll definitely be checking back in to see an update from you. I'm very curious how it works out for you. We tried Exploring Creation with Apologia Astronomy last year for our 7 1/2 year old. It was information overload. We enjoyed it, but it was too much. We had to just skim through the last 4 or 5 lessons, and we were already breaking up lessons into 2 or 3 days. We loved the journal. We only completed 1/4 of the activities/pages in it, but I knew that's how the journal was going to be going into it.
Totally enjoyed the video! I love junior apologia series but didn’t work well for our family. Our kids got bored with studying the same topic for so long, but I’m sure I could have done a better job of making more fun for sure.
Please share more on how this is going. I’m trying to decide on a science. Want to know if this is worth the price😅 Was also thinking science chunks Idk I’m overwhelmed
Wow! This looks amazing. We tried this year to combine Bookshark level D with my 8 & 11 yr olds and it was way over my youngest ones head. This looks amazing. Is this curriculum secular or faith based?
Perfect! Thank you so much for your response! As a follow of a Christ, I’ve found science to be such a hard subject to get that aligns with our beliefs. We homeschool with a public charter, and I think it’s time we just purchase science curriculum on our own!
@@gatheredandgroundedhomeschool Thank you! I never imagined how overwhelming and difficult it would be to check most of the boxes on our list. Especially for science and history.
@@AmberGates those are the subjects I typically see people struggling to choose but there are so many great curricula out there. Just have to find what fits best in your homeschool.
I love the kits and the fact that you only get what you need and don't have tons of extra stuff to store! Thanks so much for sharing!
Yes the kits are amazing!
Thank you so much for the shout-out! We hope you have a wonderful week!
Love the comments, I'm switching my daughter who's in the 6st grade to Apologia this next year. I've been on the fence about it but yes, I'm going to do it! Thanks for this review. 🎉Science is her strongest subject.
My oldest has used Apologia since 6th grade and loves it. He’ll be a 9th grader in the fall and will be doing Biology with Apologia.
Have you heard of Science in the Beginning? It’s by the same author (Jay Wile) of Apologia series. It’s the same style but not on one topic for the whole year. This specific one goes through the 7 days of creation, so variety of topics and lots of hands on experiments! It’s for k-6 and has discussion questions for younger, older and oldest students.
I have not but I’ll have to check it out now ☺️
I have been looking at AES every year, but there are just not enough in depth reviews. Very excited to see you talk about this curriculum more. I taught science for a few years and I still have a few wire hangers from a professional development session, they are so hard to find in small quantities! Having your supplirs done for you is brillant. Would love to see an update after using if the predone kit is worth it. Thanks for sharing.
Was planning science this weekend. ❤ You so much as always. I wait for your videos now then plan
Good choice for semi-independent curriculum! Looking forward to seeing flip throughs and hearing how they are liking it. 😊
We love Apologia and the Nature's Workshop plus lab kits!! I don't think you will be disappointed picking this curriculum! We actually finished 2 books this year. We did 1 entire lesson every friday on my day off and we spent 1-1.5 hours total doing the entire lesson, notebook and experiments. So i think you may find you can do a little more and just do 1 day a week and still complete in your school year.
That’s awesome!
This looks like so much fun thanks for the videos ladies!
I'll definitely be checking back in to see an update from you. I'm very curious how it works out for you.
We tried Exploring Creation with Apologia Astronomy last year for our 7 1/2 year old. It was information overload. We enjoyed it, but it was too much. We had to just skim through the last 4 or 5 lessons, and we were already breaking up lessons into 2 or 3 days. We loved the journal. We only completed 1/4 of the activities/pages in it, but I knew that's how the journal was going to be going into it.
Totally enjoyed the video! I love junior apologia series but didn’t work well for our family. Our kids got bored with studying the same topic for so long, but I’m sure I could have done a better job of making more fun for sure.
Always love to collaborate with you ❤ excited to do apologia 🎉
I've never heard of this science curriculum before.
Please share more on how this is going. I’m trying to decide on a science. Want to know if this is worth the price😅
Was also thinking science chunks
Idk I’m overwhelmed
We won’t be using this til end of July so I won’t have any updates on how we like it until then.
We used the Zoology unit in the past.
How did you like it?
Wow! This looks amazing. We tried this year to combine Bookshark level D with my 8 & 11 yr olds and it was way over my youngest ones head. This looks amazing. Is this curriculum secular or faith based?
Faith based- follows the creation theory
Perfect! Thank you so much for your response! As a follow of a Christ, I’ve found science to be such a hard subject to get that aligns with our beliefs. We homeschool with a public charter, and I think it’s time we just purchase science curriculum on our own!
Did you come across any secular studies that fit your list?
If you are looking for secular I would recommend Moving Beyond the Page.
@@gatheredandgroundedhomeschool Thank you! I never imagined how overwhelming and difficult it would be to check most of the boxes on our list. Especially for science and history.
@@AmberGates those are the subjects I typically see people struggling to choose but there are so many great curricula out there. Just have to find what fits best in your homeschool.
Our student notebooks are black and white interesting
The new editions are now in color.
@@laurabeth7755 can’t wait for the new zoology ones to release
How did this work out
It worked well! Especially if you have multiple grade children working together ❤️
@@gatheredandgroundedhomeschool Good to know - thank you. Love your content:)
Do you just do one unit a year?
This is our first time using Apologia so we only plan on using this for now, if we finish quicker we might add it other units.