I was surprised, though blessed, to receive an Apologia book to review!  I thought “everyone” knew about Creation-based science curriculum company Apologia, but I guess you need to know more, right?!   We used Apologia for three years with our oldest son and were more than excited to receive one of the Exploring Creation with Zoology books for the elementary level kids.

I love that the Apologia books talk directly to the student, though we did use our “Flying Creatures of the Fifth Day” as a read-aloud.  It brought up great discussion, research and learning!  There is much hands-on learning available with experiments included in the books, including kits available for the older students’ subjects such as Biology and Chemistry. 

If you’ve read any of my reviews, you know I like to talk about the company behind the product whenever I’m familiar with them, and Apologia is no exception.  Our oldest son studied the Apologia texts written by Dr. Jay Wile, the founder and then-owner of the company.  It was neat that Dr. Wile was teaching in our home state of Indiana while authoring these great Creation texts.  We appreciated the quality of the content in qualifying for high school credit, and that we could purchase a dissection kit for Biology so our son would have the lab experience and credit.  Plus it was fun for the whole family! 

With 7 years between our first and second children, I was hearing the buzz about Apologia books for the younger kids by author Jeannie Fulbright.  Then with the surge of hands-on learning lap books and notebooking I was seeing many activities available.  I couldn’t wait for my littles to “do” science! 

The website has a lot of great information, including sample lessons and free notebooking pages!  Here's a link to the elementary sciences page where you can get your sample, table of contents or an overview of each: botany, astronomy or one of the three zoology books.  Anatomy and Physics & Chemistry are coming soon!

I heard that Apologia had a new owner and was blessed again the other day to receive a catalog from them in the mail!  Actually, it was more like a magazine because it has great articles, not just their products for sale.  I was able to “meet” the Carman family and learn how Apologia is going to be supporting homeschoolers by offering more than just science curriculum.  Please visit their website to learn all the details, but they have a great team of authors and speakers on board in order to offer online classes and LIVE conferences.  Sign up for their monthly e-newsletter, too!

We’ve had fun studying Flying Creatures thus far.  Grandpa built us two bird houses from the plans in our text, plus we have two more ready to be built by the kids.  We hope to post pictures of those soon!

Thanks for stopping by!

Danielle

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