2008 Science 5
2008 Changes
- Added The Boy's Body Book
- Added The Care & Keeping of You: The Body Book for Girls
- Updated edition of Almost 12 (cover & illustration changes - content essentially the same)
Science 5 IG Errors
- Appendix 2 - Computer Research Activities Answer Key. Answers for weeks 21-36 are missing. Will be added to the Curriculum Updates page. (7.16.08)
The Boy & Girl books do not have Science Activity sheets nor are they scheduled. There is a note in the IG reminding parents to use them at their discretion. (4.4.08)
Human body worksheets
Science 5: some of the Human Body worksheets are not covered by Usborne or anything else in our science program; tell customers they can use those worksheets as an opportunity to do some research with their student OR they could simply skip those that are not covered in Usborne -- the answer key to the worksheets is in the back of the book, if the client is just looking for the answers!
Almost 12
After reviewing the current edition of Almost 12, Sonlight has chosen to offer the old version. We do not recommend the content of the new version.
from John:
- Besides the apparent attitude shift--where the new edition, written to the classroom-educated majority, seemed to expect peer pressure to engage in s*xual behavior (an assumption that I would prefer not to make for homeschoolers; not merely nor primarily because of any "sheltering," but because I expect my kids to acquit themselves more as Daniels, "dar[ing] to stand alone"--the really overpowering reason I asked for the right to reprint the old edition has to do with the graphics. I thought the new edition shows much more of the body than is necessary to convey the message the graphic is supposed to depict (for example--I'm not sure you would find this particular picture, but what I am about to describe is equivalent to what I am talking about: when showing the growth of the baby inside the mother, the picture shows not just a "cut-away" view of the mother's lower abdomen with the baby inside, but shows a fully-rendered view of her entire torso . . . on up through her upper chest). Compare that with the more diagrammatic drawings in the "old" edition that we carry. My perspective: "To get the sense of how the baby grows inside, you don't have to show me the details of the mother's br*asts and pub*c hair. . . ."
- Standard answer for public release: Sonlight asked for pemission to reprint the older version because of the graphics. We thought the new edition shows much more of the body than is necessary to convey the message the graphic is supposed to depict. Also we felt that the new book has an attitude shift which is geared toward students that are expected to be sexually active. Graciously, the author, Mr. Taylor, gave permission to us to reprint it.