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training5
03-27-2008, 04:59 PM
My second son picked up McGrawHill 5 science textbook I was planning on using and read the ENTIRE thing in 2 days!!! There goes my beautiful plan. True, we could go over it but this is my science guy...he will be bored having read it already.

I am hiding next year's books from him from now on! Just had to share.
ArwenA
03-27-2008, 05:08 PM
My second son picked up McGrawHill 5 science textbook I was planning on using and read the ENTIRE thing in 2 days!!! There goes my beautiful plan. True, we could go over it but this is my science guy...he will be bored having read it already.

I am hiding next year's books from him from now on! Just had to share.

LOL! Don't you just love (but are a bit annoyed) when this things happen!
Today I learnt that DD9 is nearly done CW Homer A, I was contemplating which level to start her at.
hsmom
03-27-2008, 05:14 PM
Do you like the McGraw Hill Science textbooks?
training5
03-27-2008, 05:18 PM
I have used grades 1-3...and would have used 5! We used them in conjuction with Calvert School. I think they are great but the labs assume a school level of lab supplies. So we didn't do any labs and that drove my guys batty. The first page has a topic, the second, a lab, the third tells what the child was to learn from the lab investigation. If you aren't too fussed with hands-on or are a better planner than I am at gathering supplies, it is great. I found the TM notes in the Calvert guides to be unnecessary. The books are very self-explanatory.
hsmom
03-27-2008, 05:21 PM
I have the 3rd grade one McGraw Hill / national Geographic society. We really never got into it.
MichelleWI
03-27-2008, 05:36 PM
My second son ... read the ENTIRE thing in 2 days!!!

Isn't it great when they do things like this?! My oldest is very science-minded. I purchased three of her four intended high school texts as I found them at good prices and she has read them front to back. The Biology text is nearly worn out from reference. The other books and reference materials we have at hand have been utilized, as well.

I'm not sure what I'm going to do with her, but I'm not complaining! :D
Carol in Cal.
03-27-2008, 08:17 PM
Until about 7th grade, I would read my new textbooks at the beginning of the year. (In 7th grade, we got government books. So boring.)

I want to encourage you not to hide the books from him. You can still study them. Reading science is not always the same as learning science. And if he has, in fact, learned them, give him some more to learn! No reason to hold him back! After all, we are homeschoolers. Letting kids set their own pace is one of our perks!