RFNH = “Real Food Nutrition & Health” Study. My children and I will be working our way through Kristen Michaelis’ book, Real Food Nutrition and Health, during the fall and winter months as part of our homeschooling curriculum — and it looks like many of you will be joining us! I’m so excited. 🙂
Click here to read more about the study and get the proposed schedule. I’ll provide downloadable discussion questions/activities each week — which you can save for the future if you’re not going to participate now.
Today, you can download the schedule and the discussion questions/activities for chapter 1 (they are PDFs). If you’re following along with the suggested schedule, work through chapter 1 anytime in the next week, then meet us back here at the blog on Friday, August 27, 2010 to discuss it. Also on Friday, I’ll give you the discussion questions/activities for chapter 2. Make sense?
If you’re not following the schedule, I welcome you to download any of the materials and save them for the future.
My children and I will begin next week, and here’s what I’m planning.
- On Monday and/or Tuesday, we’ll read and discuss chapter 1 of Real Food Nutrition and Health.
- On Wednesday, for an activity, we’re going to visit a local pastured poultry farm to observe how they process chickens in the open air.*
- On next Friday’s post, I’ll be sharing how that all went, and what we learned.
*This activity isn’t totally appropriate for the chapter, but it is something we have planned next week for other reasons, so I’m going to make it work! We’ll also work through at least one of the other suggested activities.
I look forward to hearing what you and your children saw, learned and explored as well! Please let me know if you have any questions at all.
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Still waiting for the younger kids version, as both of my children are under 12 – WAY under 12. So, we’ll read through when that one becomes available.
Laura
I love how organized you are Wardee and how simply you pass it on! I just bought and downloaded the book (from your affiliate link) and also printed out the schedule and questions. I’ve decided to print out the chapters week by week as to not overwhelm our paper supply, ink cartridge, and notebook all at once! 😉 I’m looking forward to reading through this with my eighth grade daughter. I’ve discussed it with her and hope that we can keep it up week to week. She goes to public school, plays volleyball for her school and is in band – so she’s pretty busy. But I thought this would be a great way for us to do something together and to give her a better understanding of real nutrition. After all, she will be feeding her own family someday. Will your girls be blogging about it on their blogs or participating in anyway online? I thought it would be fun for her to connect with other kids doing this. OH! What about a section in your forums for this study? Also, are you guys reading aloud together or each one reading individually and then discussing?
Tara — I am not really organized. In fact, I’m quite disorganized right now. 🙂 Doing this online is forcing me to keep up better. I like your approach to not overwhelm your resources. I think you and your daughter will really enjoy this!
For us, I am going to encourage the girls to blog about it. We’ll do all the readings together. I will share the results of our discussions in a blog post on Fridays. I thought of using the forum, but wanted this to be more open to people who aren’t necessarily in the eCourse. What do you think?
Well, you are very successful at appearing organized! 😀
You are probably right about the forum. Since your girls will hopefully blog about it, I’ll share the links with Autumn and maybe she will be encouraged by them and comment.
That would be wonderful. My girls would love to chat with her on their blogs, or here. Whatever works. 🙂
thank you Wardee, this will help my daughter and i on reading this book, we are so far behind on the e-course and book reading. hopefully we can get back on track….
blessings ~ Carmen
We read the first chapter together tonight and went over the discussion questions. It went well and I’m so excited to do this with her!