Family Read Aloud Books or Independent Reading: Astronomy
Choose one or more books from this list if you would like to study astronomy with your children this year. The Claritas Publishing Cycle 2 memory work covers astronomy for the first half of the year and geology for the second half.
Form 1+ (or whole family read aloud)
Geography Songs by Larry and Kathy Troxel
This is a coloring book of maps and lyrics with a CD of songs and is mostly used for Geography. It also happens to include a song about the Solar System, which is useful for week 5 of the memory work.
- Exodus Books paperback
- Amazon paperback
You can download the pdf here:
The Good and the Beautiful: Space Science
This is a fun activity book, with one or two lessons scheduled per week for the first fourteen weeks. I recommend using this with one or two more books from The Good and the Beautiful. I have scheduled Ecosystems and Geology as options.
You can download the pdf here:
Star Stories for Little Folks by Gertrude Chandler Warner
This book is scheduled at a pace of one or two chapters per week for the first fourteen weeks. Chapters are four to six pages in length.
- Yesterday’s Classics
- Internet Archive (free)
- LibriVox Audio (free)
You can download the pdf here:
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