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Tuesday, April 16, 2013

Magic School Bus Series


As a homeschool mom, I have always worked at finding curriculum which makes learning fun. When my son, who is now in high school, was in elementary school, he loved to watch the Magic School Bus videos. Every time we would go to the library our bag would undoubtedly end up with mostly the Magic School Bus videos and books.

When he was in first grade we were searching for a science program which would lend itself to his learning style. He enjoyed being able to be hands on and doing activities. What we found is that there was actually a science program through scholastic.com which allowed us to use Magic School Bus stories along with activity books, and extras which came in the package. One of his favorites was the book called Baked in a Cake where the kids were put into a cake at the bakery to see how Chemistry works in baking. The kit actually came not only with the book, but also activity book and muffin tins and recipes for baking at home. This actually spun into a love of cooking which lasted many years. At age 15 he still loves to bake pies(and is really good at it!).

Magic School Bus series is a collection of so many different scientific areas. It offers books on everything from chemistry to space, environment, human body and much more.

In our current homeschool co-op, I am teaching the elementary science class and I get to teach the Magic School Bus stories every week. You never really outgrow these and i've had so much fun re-reading the stories and re-watching the videos. The series has so much detail and great information. Kids learn in a way that gets them interested without it coming across as "school learning". I love it when they get excited about what we are going to study and beg for experiments and more for each subject! One week we read the book on volcanos, and then went outside and I helped the kids make their own volcano erupt. They had so much fun and wanted to do it over and over...which we did:).
This week is friction and force..and relating it to baseball....how could this not be fun?!

As Miss Frizzle says "Take Chances, Make Mistakes, Get Messy!"  What a great quote for kids. What kid wouldn't love to hear mom say that?! By doing this exact thing, you put all the ideas of  perfection out of your mind, and focus on the real learning, and enjoying it

check out the theme song preview of the videos!





Disclosure: I did not receive any compensation for this review. My opinions are honest and personal. They may differ from others.
you can find the books and videos at scholastic.com or www.amazon.com

11 comments:

  1. My children loves watching the Magic School Bus. Great way to teach my child facts but making it interesting that they don't know they're learning, I love it!

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  2. I love that quote, great concept for us all to live by! Let's kids be kids and learn as they go.

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  3. I love the Magic School Bus series!

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  4. Oh wow...I didn't even realize this was still around. My kids would love it!

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  5. I've seen the show on TV, but I had no idea they actually had books. Cool!

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  6. they have tons of books and great stories:)

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  7. We love them too! Have you seen the Human Body Detective series? reminded me of MSB but just with two kids and even more info on the body and nutrition

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  8. I haven't heard of it? I'll have to check it out!

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  9. My boys love Magic School Bus. We live in Germany where we can't watch it on tv, but they do have a lot of episodes on youtube and they love to see them. They also love the books.

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  10. My little guys would love this! Thanks for the post!! :D

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  11. I loved magic school bus when i was younger. I had no idea it was still around!

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