I see that weather is recommended for Y1 as it corresponds with calendar work. We look forward to doing it.
Would you then recommend it be done during Term 1? Or could it be delayed to a later term and still fit in well with the other work? I've been going through the lesson guide, but it wasn't clear to .
Great! I'm so glad this was helpful!
Thank you. I do have both.
I appreciate the flexibility of the four natural history guides. We will be starting when my daughter is 6 1/2, so we should be able to take three topics for the year. She is used to tagging along a bit with her older sister, so schoolwork will not be brand new to her.
I will probably end up doing Weather term 2 simply because our school year starts in July, and our weather is basically just hot and cloudless for the entire summer. Honestly, our weather forecast generally just says, "smoke" because it's fire season. We can't even go outside, much less record any weather changes.
Thanks for your reply. I just wanted to be sure that we could delay it to a time of year when we could actually observe weather without affecting the rest of our studies. We are so looking forward to starting in the summer.
Hi Amanda,
You have both the Foundations Outline Guide and the Lesson Guide, correct? I just wanted to be sure...
The Foundations Lesson Guides allows you to use any of the four listed science/natural history guides: Weather, Seed Dispersion, Farm Animals and Woods, Fields & Forests. You can definitely be flexible with these. You can use any number of them, for as long as you prefer and in any order. You could start Weather now and work through it slowly, using only this guide for the entire year of Year One. You could also start now and follow it with a different one in Term Two or vice versa. The calendar work extends throughout the entire year.
I wanted to set it up this way for Year One in particular, so that families could keep the year flexible but also very specified to their family. Some children at this age need to take things more slowly than others and I wanted to support that. Year One is such a foundational (pardon the pun), and pivotal year!
General guidelines aside, I can see how doing Weather in the first or second term would benefit your child's ability to expand their calendar work to include weather sooner rather than later. I would recommend starting it no later than Term Two, so that you would have at least one term where your student can fully appreciate and include the weather portion of the calendar work before the year ends.
I don't have this written out for Year Two, but I can certainly see continuing calendar work into and possibly throughout Year Two as well. Time is a bit abstract for younger children and there are many mathematical concepts which can be pursued through calendar work as well.
I hope this helps! :)