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Cycle 4 Science & Nature: Nature Form 4

STAR Homeschool Cycle 4 Science and Nature

Family Read Aloud Books or Independent Reading: Nature, Forms 4 & 5

Field, Forest and Farm by Jean-Henri Fabre

This book is scheduled at a pace of one to three chapters per week from Week 1 through Week 28.

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Cycle 4 Science & Nature: Nature Form 3+

STAR Homeschool Cycle 4 Science and Nature

Family Read Aloud Books or Independent Reading: Nature, Form 3+

The Story Book of Science by Jean Henri Fabre whole year

This book is scheduled at a pace of one or two chapters per week for all twenty-eight weeks.

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Christian Liberty Nature Reader Book 4 second edition

 This is scheduled at a pace of two to four lessons per week for twenty-eight weeks.

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Christian Liberty Nature Reader Book 5, 2nd Edition

This book is scheduled at a pace of one to two lessons per week for twenty-eight weeks.

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Cycle 4 Science & Nature: Nature Form 2+

STAR Homeschool Cycle 4 Science and Nature


Make sure to read the post How to Teach Science and Nature.

Christian Liberty Nature Reader Book 2 second edition

This book is scheduled at a pace of one or two lessons per week for twenty-eight weeks.

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Christian Liberty Nature Reader Book 3 second edition

This book is scheduled at a pace of one or two lessons per week for twenty-eight weeks.

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Cycle 4 Science & Nature: Animals Form 2+

STAR Homeschool Cycle 4 Science and Nature

Form 2+ (or, whole family read aloud books)

Tommy Smith’s Animals by Edmund Selous

This book is scheduled at a pace of one chapter every-other-week from Week 1 through Week 23.

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Tommy Smith at the Zoo by Edmund Selous

This book is scheduled at a pace of one chapter every-other-week from Week 2 through Week 16.

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Cycle 4 Science & Nature: Forests and Trees Picture Books Form 1+

STAR Homeschool Cycle 4 Science and Nature

Picture Books, Form 1+ (or, whole family read aloud)

The following books are not included on any of the PDF schedules here. You may want to look for these books at a public or church library or purchase used or new copies. If you like to keep careful schedules, you could schedule one picture book per week or read a page or two in a book per day. Alternatively, put these books in a basket in your family room and allow your children to read them when they have free time, or when you have set aside time for independent reading. 

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Cycle 4 Science & Nature Picture Books: Animals, Form 1+

STAR Homeschool Cycle 4 Science and Nature

Picture Books, Form 1+

The following books are not included on any of the PDF schedules here. You may want to look for these books at a public or church library or purchase used or new copies. If you like to keep careful schedules, you could schedule one picture book per week or read a page or two in a book per day. Alternatively, put these books in a basket in your family room and allow your children to read them when they have free time, or when you have set aside time for independent reading. 

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Cycle 4 Science & Nature: Animals Form 3+

STAR Homeschool Cycle 4 Science and Nature

Form 3+ (or, whole family read aloud)

The Handbook of Nature Study: Mammals by Anna Botsford Comstock 

You may choose to purchase the full Handbook of Nature Study book. If you purchase the full book, you will use it over the four cycles for Forms 3, 4 and 5, but you will only make use of the “Mammals” section in Cycle 4. This is a wonderful resource to own and it’s useful to use as a reference when you come across almost any kind of wildlife. The “Mammals” section is scheduled at a pace of five chapters per term in Cycle 4.

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Cycle 4 Science & Nature: Animals Form 1+

STAR Homeschool Cycle 4 Science and Nature

Family Read Aloud Books or Independent Reading: Animals, Form 1+

The Burgess Animal Book for Children by Thornton Burgess

The Burgess books are wonderful! There are multiple scheduled in each cycle. This book is scheduled at a pace of one to two chapters per week for all twenty-eight weeks.

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The Adventures of Buster Bear by Thornton W. Burgess

This book is scheduled at a pace of one chapter per week from Week 1 through Week 23.

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The Anthology of Intriguing Animals by Ben Hoare

This book is scheduled at a pace of three to four animals per week for all twenty-eight weeks.

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Cycle 4 Science & Nature: Forests and Trees, Projects

STAR Homeschool Cycle 4 Science and Nature

The Good and the Beautiful Drawing 100 Fun & Easy Trees

This book is scheduled at a pace of three to four trees per week. Alternatively, draw one tree per week and use this over multiple years.

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Grow a Little Fruit Tree: Simple Pruning Techniques for Small-Space, Easy-Harvest Fruit Trees by Ann Ralph 168 pages

There is no pdf schedule for this book. Simply use it as you see fit and plant whatever trees you like and make sense for your area.

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Cycle 4 Science & Nature: Forests and Trees Form 4+

STAR Homeschool Cycle 4 Science and Nature

How to Read a Tree: Clues and Patterns from Bark to Leaves by Tristan Gooley

This book is scheduled at a pace of one chapter per week for weeks 1 through 14.

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