Homeschool Friday - Julia Rothman's Farm Anatomy Activity Book

Homeschool Friday is a feature here at Somewhere Only We Know that showcases books my family reads during homeschool and provides a mini-review for each.

Julia Rothman's Farm Anatomy Activity Book

By: Julia Rothman

Expected Publication: September 24, 2024 by Storey Publishing, LLC

64 pages

Genre: Match-ups, Word Puzzles, Quizzes, Mazes, Projects, Secret Codes

Source: Publisher via NetGalley (Thank you!!)

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Goodreads description--Julia Rothman, bestselling author and illustrator of Farm Anatomy, presents a companion activity book for kids aged 8 and up, with pages of creative learning activities, including matching challenges, mazes, ID and drawing exercises, word puzzles, and observational challenges.

The author invites you to try your hand at identifying, drawing, and learning the parts and pieces of life on a farm. Loaded with Rothman's original illustrations, this interactive format features fun challenges on every page, including labeling the parts of a rabbit, buzzing though a pollinator's maze, figuring out a secret farm code, identifying tools and equipment, and learning to draw a sheep and a horse. Rothman's lively collection of on-the-page quizzes, puzzles, and activities will intrigue and entertain you, whether you live on a farm or not.

I'm having a hard time figuring out how to review this book. The art work and illustrations are beautiful. The activities look fun, engaging, and informative for children. Yet, I couldn't actually get my kids to look at it or try any of the activities out as I received a digital version of this book, and printing wasn't allowed for understandable reasons.

Julia Rothman's Farm Anatomy Activity Book has a mixture of learning, activities, games, riddles, drawing, puzzles, etc. If you have a child interested in farming, gardening, or farm animals, or if you're doing a unit study in your homeschool on farming, this book would be a great resource. I don't know how this might work for you if you have multiple kids. I guess you would need to purchase a copy per child--no different than purchasing a coloring book or activity book per kid for something else. If a digital version is available where you can print off multiple copies of the activities you need per how many children you have, you'd still run into instances where an entire page has a colored background which is beautiful to look at but is costly to print at home. This book is one of the few instances where having a physical review book would have been helpful to see what the real size and layout would have been like to review this properly.

Julia Rothman's Farm Anatomy Activity Book gets 4 Stars. I couldn't try out any of the activities or worksheets with my kids because I couldn't print them, but I can easily see how this would be a great resource. Have you read or used Julia Rothman's Farm Anatomy Activity Book? What did you think? Let me know!