Hannah’s been using Singapore’s "Interactive Science for Inquiring Minds" (yes, that Singapore). The textbook is okay, but I don’t always like the way it orders the material. For instance, we’ll move through a Biology unit really quickly – taxonomy, classification, the study of cells, no problem. And then in the next unit they’re asking her to fill in the blanks in the equation for a  chemical reaction without even explaining the basic principles behind it. I’m just not ready to crush her scientific inquiry so early into the game, and we’ve ended up skipping good chunks of it to come back to in a later unit. Am I wrong? Some of these equations I wouldn’t have seen until I was in college.

Anyway, she’ll be done with the book in another week, and we’re trying to decide where to go next. Biology? An obvious strong point. Or Astronomy, which she has also expressed an interest in? I’m personally leaning toward Astronomy, if only because we get to make models of the planets…’cause I never really grew out of arts and crafts.