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Shining Dawn Books
He will make your righteousness shine like the dawn, the justice of your cause like the noonday sun. – Psalm 37:6
Hi Virginia!
Our Spectacular Spiders unit is currently in revamping mode. We are adding more lesson content and more notebooking pages. As for when it will be ready, I’m not sure, but it will be a while. We still have our original unit and would be happy to sell that to you for the original $6.00 price. If you are interested in that let us know and we will gladly set up a Paypal button for it.
Thanks for your question and interest!
Melissa
Hi,
I have really enjoyed quite a few of your studies and was wondering if you had a “date” for your night creatures study and your rock study. Both would make great summer studies and I am trying to wait patiently for them both. Thanks so much for all you do.
Penny
Hi Penny,
Thanks so much for your question. Yes, we do have dates set. The Hard as a Rock unit should be re-released again by June 6th, and the Creatures of the Night unit should be re-released again by June 13th. So stayed tuned, it will be soon!
Hi,
I am going to be coordinating a Nature Study Club for our homeschool support group next year and I was wondering if the NaturExplore units would work well in a group. Also, would I be able to make copies of the notebooking pages for all the kids in the group, or would each family have to buy their own copy?
Thanks!
Hi Dawn,
Glad to hear that you will be leading a Nature Club! I have lead one for two years now and really love it. YES, our units would be wonderful for helping you plan your clubs. We have a section in the back of each unit dedicated to ideas just for Nature Clubs! Plus, many of our other ideas in the main section would work wonderfully too.
You are welcome to copy the notebooking pages for your group, no need for each child’s family to purchase one. We consider that a classroom setting.
Blessings for your new group!
Melissa
I am very interested in your Nature Studies! It looks like it will be just our speed! How long does each unit last? A month? A semester? A year? Just wondering how many I would need for the “school year”. Thank you!
Hi Jenn,
Thank you for your question. So glad to hear you are interested in our nature studies! Each unit is set up with plenty of lessons and activities to fill at least a month. You can pick and choose from those activities to have it take less time as well, it’s totally up to you!
Blessings!
Melissa
ShiningDawn,
I would like to say a million THANK YOU’s for your latest ebook, Remarkable Rain.
You see, our family of 6 (kids ages 11, 4, 3, & 1) is currently living overseas with the State Department.
We are in Taipei, Taiwan right now, and it rains A LOT here! I love being outdoors with the kids, but on these constant rainy days I find myself at a loss of what to do with the kids!
So needless to say, your ebook was a breath of fresh air. A huge relief.
We went outside today and made rain gauges, did a Rain Scavenger Hunt, and made dams and waded in the water. I would never have thought to do these things on my own.
You have so many things on the scavenger hunt list that it will take us many days just to complete that one activity in itself. Not to mention all the other activities!
So thank you for all your hard work and for making my life easier!!
We will have many more wonderful memories of living here because of you guys!
I can’t wait until tomorrow. I hope it rains!!
Many blessings to you, jessica (www.powerstaiwanchatter.blogspot.com)
Jessica, your comment brought tears to our eyes!! This is EXACTLY what we are hoping to do with our nature studies, encourage nature study and observation no matter where you are or what your circumstances!! THANK you so much for commenting and letting us know how this unit has blessed you, it has brought joy to our day. We’d love to continue to hear of your wonderful experiences in the remarkable rain!
Blessings,
Melissa and Cindy
I just purchased you unit Butterflies Flutter By (WONDERFUL!!!). I have looked at the books ya’ll recommend, but I’m not finding one that talks about butterfly predators and the defense mechanisms you include on your notebooking page. Do you have a specific suggestion for lower elementary?
Thank You,
Virginia Lee
Hi Virginia Lee, so great to hear from you! Thank you for your compliment on our Butterflies Flutter By study. Some of the related literature books do contain some information in them about butterfly defense mechanisms. Such as in How to Hide a Butterfly by Ruth Heller it speaks of camouflage. However, I’m not sure if the other defenses are discussed in other books. What we can also recommend is that you could do an internet search for more information, there are several helpful sites out there such as the following which gives a simple overview of butterfly defense mechanisms for lower elementary:
http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/butterfly/allabout/Defense.shtml
We hope this is helpful. Blessings!
Hi there! I’ll be homeschooling for the first time this fall (with my oldest child, a 1st grader). I just came across your site, and WOW! I am so excited to explore here tomorrow when my brain is fresh enough to process and enjoy what I’m reading! :-) I already planned to do nature study with my daughter as part of our home school, but I was going to “wing it.” Now I think I’ll have to choose one of these scruptious-looking unit studies to use! I’m also kind of proud and excited that this is a Kentucky product, since I’m Louisville born-and-raised. :-) Looking forward to getting to know you and your products in the coming days, weeks and months!
Keri,
Howdy neighbor! :o) Please let us know if you have any questions about homeschooling, nature related or not. And have a wonderful first year with your children!
Have you looked at the Fandex family guides series? You might want to add them to some of your recommendations as they seem child friendly. We will be using them with the wild flowers, birds, insects and trees.
Thank you,
Julie
Hi Julie,
Thank you so much for your recommendation! We will definitely look into those more seriously and add them to our units if we feel they are a good fit. Keep us informed of how they are doing for you.