Exploring Creation with Zoology 1: Flying Creatures of the Fifth Day

This is our second year for using Apologia science.
My son loves to read the information in the text book and complete the journaling.
I have seen him engage himself in the reading and process the information for better understanding of the subject.
The pictures have kept his interest as well.

Very happy and delighted to use the Apologia Science books!

We loved all of her series. We didn't do much projects due to time. However we learned a lot and had fun learning. :D My kids were able to read on their own and do the workbook. It did take a while to figure out the blocks and pages for writing. It was a struggle at first. All in all we love the series. :D

We were able to jump around and take the textbook with us on the go. It was really nice having one single book full of all of the info. We didn't do many of the projects and hopefully we'll get through the entire book next year. We used the note booking journal as well which saved me a ton of time and headache!

We enjoy Apologia studies but this one was a bit too in depth about the mechanics of flying. it flew over my kid's heads

I prefer secular curriculum, however this is extremely engaging and was very surprised to find my 6 year old devouring it. She is now a "birder" and just loves me reading the text to her out loud every day, working on her journal and her birding notebook. Has turned into a fun project for us.

Some things are a bit much for her age, so we just breeze on by and focus on what catches her attention, which is 80-90% of the book.

this was a favorite. We scheduled the chapters to coincide with the time insects would be most observable and birds would be visiting feeders/nesting so we could add nature study. Students learned and retained much with this study.

My kids love the detailed information in the text and they love the lab projects we have gotten caterpillars and watched them go through metomorphosis we caught a cricket and observed it they have gotten to draw pictures of live insects. We went to our local nature centers Bug Fest activity there have been so many inexpensive things I have been able to do to make this curriculum come alive for them. Although I will say they spend a long time on insects. If you are queasy about bugs you may want to pick a different book from the apologia library to work from. I don't like bugs, but I have still found this book to be interesting and engaging. I do recommend using the text with the journal and they sell a lab kit that has all the materials for each lab bagged and labeled (this is totally worth the money if you can swing it, it has saved me so much time and ensures we do the labs because I know I have all the materials).

I did this with my son when he was in K and we loved the expirments! The only problem is that there are a lot of words on each page so it requires a parent to read or parents can get the audio CDs.