Tag: Animals

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.

• Amazon
• Yesterday’s Classics
• Project Gutenberg (free)

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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.

• Amazon
• Yesterday’s Classics

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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. 

• Big Tracks, Little Tracks: Following Animal Prints by Millicent E. Selsam
• Every Autumn Comes the Bear by Jim Arnosky
• Rabbits and Raindrops by Jim Arnosky
• Raccoon On His Own by Jim Arnosky
• The Secret Life of the Skunk by Laurence Pringle
• Tracks, Scats and Signs by Leslie Dendy
• Wild Tracks! A Guide to Nature’s Footprints by Jim Arnosky 

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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.

• Amazon (Mammals)
• Yesterday’s Classics (Mammals)
• Living Book Press (Mammals)
• Amazon (full book)
• Internet Archive (full book, free)

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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.

• Amazon
• Yesterday’s Classics
• Living Book Press
• Project Gutenberg (free)

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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.

• Amazon
• Yesterday’s Classics

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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.

• Amazon

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