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Pre-History

We made fossils today! BYL Prehistory unit. A photo posted by Annie Pizana (@annie_zp) on May 30, 2015 at 7:18am PDT We are doing the Build Your Library Pre-History unit over our short summer break to introduce us to what next school year will be like. We are not completing every single activity, just trying to have fun learning and dip our toes in a new kind of daily rhythm. We had fun with the fossil activity, and those are still sitting on the window sill, getting checked daily. One of the things I am enjoying is the freedom we have to take what we find useful and leave what we don't. G and C are upper elementary, so we created Books of Centuries in the Charlotte Mason style, and added the prehistory timeline pages to the front of those. But that activity on top of the field guide activity was a little too much, so we decided as a group that the field guide was not serving us and just stopped doing it. Such a little thing, but a powerful symbol of how we ar...