This book is designed to be flexible and to work for you. You can use it however you want to. You could work from the front to the back in order, completing a certain number of pages per day or per week. Alternatively you could study things out of order and do it by topic, or whatever captures your interest.

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Want to extend the topic and go deeper? Sure! What to skip something that dosen't catch your attention? Go for it! There are no rules with this book. It is yours to own.

The idea behind making this book was to build a resource that gave enough guidelines on what topics to look for to help the adults, but allow children to set their own pace, do their own research, using resources of their own choosing. This allows them to come to their own conclusions about topics, morals, characters and events that have taken place from their own study.

We are what I call a 'bitza' family. We use a bit of this... and a bit of that..... You might call it eclectic homeschooling. These books are closest to a Charlotte Mason style, where you will need to find good books and resources to research, but also has an element of unschooling, an element of structure... its really a bit of everything. 

This depends on how you use it. It could be used as a term/unit study where you have a focus one term where you do some everyday. It could be spread over a year where you only do it once a week as a topic study. It can last as long or as short as you'd like it too. Its designed to be flexible and fit with you, not a rigid timetable. 

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Personally, we took as long as we needed to cover each topic. If the kids loved something we focused more on it and went deeper, if they weren't interested we did a brief overview and moved on.

I wanted to make this flexible on price - so it would suit no matter what your budget. I have used these workbooks where I've borrowed every resource I needed from the library or internet. So you can buy this book and it could cost you nothing extra (aside from printing). I have also found some great resources I've chosen to buy to reuse again.  I recommend some resources in the workbooks, but these are NOT essential. Nor are they exclusive. This also allows you flexibility on how you teach and what you want your children to learn from.

There are SOOOOO many wonderful books, websites, people, places to visit, museums etc. etc. etc. that you can use I could fill pages to list them all. If you have a resource that you think would be a MUST to list then let me know! I love great resources!

There is a variety of subjects covered within a subject. For example within history - you will study a bit of art, write an essay, illustrate etc. In Wildlife you will write some poetry and do some map work. This is variable, similar to a unit study where lots of different things could be included to cover a topic. 

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I wrote this at one level, that could be adjusted down or up. There are essays and critical thinking exercises that wouldn't be appropriate for a Year 4, but these could be adjusted to a story or list of facts instead. If you wanted to use this as is, without adjusting I would estimate a Year 5-8 level. I plan to make a younger version for Year 1-3 in time. 

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Absolutely!

Contact me below for more details regarding your needs. 

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flourishresourcesnz@gmail.com

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Fantastic! Welcome!

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There are some fabulous groups and people that can help you begin your journey.

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https://ahe.org.nz/

https://www.nchenz.org.nz/

http://www.cynthiahancox.com/

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There are also plenty of region specific Facebook groups to let you know what is going on.