When Tasha recommended The Swiss Family Robinson as our next group book, I was all for it. We trudged through it for 3 weeks before we discovered that Tasha actually had the condensed version, and we've been trying to attack the 400 page original! I think we'll switch soon.
We've still been enjoying it, and have done this so far:
1. Look up and learn about the animals and plants mentioned in each chapter.
2. Built another fort, but made it predator-proof.
3. Cracked open a coconut and sampled its insides.
We've also been using it for Liv's math. She's been doing her multiplication and used it to determine how many rungs we'd need for our own rope ladder to get on the roof. We added and multiplied to find out how much food we would need for a day, a week, a month, and a year. This book is also full of great new vocabulary words, and we've really been learning a lot. I think I'll finish the original version myself.
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