Land Animals of the Sixth Day

by Jeannie Fulbright

Fifth book in Young Explorer Series. Elementary-level science curriculum uses the Charlotte Mason methodology to give elementary students an introduction to the incredible world of the land animals!

Genres: Science, School, Science Nature, Animals, Nonfiction

288 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2008

About the author

Jeannie Fulbright, veteran homeschooler of more than 20 years, is the author of the best-selling, multi award-winning Apologia elementary science series: Exploring Creation with Astronomy, Chemistry and Physics, Botany, Zoology, and Anatomy & Physiology.
She is also the author of the Charlotte Mason Heirloom Planner, an action-packed historical kid’s time travel book series Rumble Tumbles Through Time, as well as the Mason Jar Manna preschool science books and activity kits, the Charlotte Mason Heirloom Planner, and many Charlotte Mason education necessities. She is also writing The Chronicles of Liberty with Angela O’dell, picture books that teach about the founding of our country, the Constitution, and Government.

Jeannie and her husband Jeff, a practicing lawyer, became empty nesters in 2019. All four of their children went to the University of Georgia on scholarship (Yes! Homeschooling works!) For more than 20 years Jeannie has traveled around the country speaking to homeschoolers at conventions, covering a plethora of topics from Charlotte Mason homeschooling and college prep and teaching science and developing a powerful prayer life.

Jeannie grew up in Austin, Texas and received her Bachelor of Arts from the University of Texas at Austin and her Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing from Fairfield University. She is also a Certified Christian Life Coach and is dedicated to serving the homeschool community through her books, blog, articles, speaking engagements, and podcasts.

Jeannie loves to connect with fellow homeschoolers. In addition to her website, you can find Jeannie on Instagram, Pinterest, her Facebook page or her Charlotte Mason Christian Homeschoolers Facebook Page and Group, as well as on the Homeschool Solutions Show podcast where she hosts once a month.

Reviews

[Devon Flaherty · Rating 4 out of 5]

Obviously, this series of science books is Christian and is rooted in creation by God. If you are not a Christian—especially if you are antagonistic toward creation science—don’t bother with this series. If you are a Christian or are not opposed to the worldview, then this is an excellent series. However, when I was looking for curriculum, at least two people said to me, “You have to go with Apologia Young Explorers, but you’ll have to edit as you read.” In other words, while these books are young-Earth, world-wide-flood proponents, they are so good that even an old-Earth, regional-flood believer could and should use them. You just skip parts. Why bother? Because they are written so well, immensely informative, conversational, approachable, and interesting. We used the workbook for botany, and I thought it was really cool. The only reason I didn’t continue with the workbooks is because we were all set to fly through the three zoology books and wouldn’t have time to do the workbooks justice. This book is best when it takes the whole year to go through it.

[Danielle Friedrich · Rating 5 out of 5]

Love this series!

[Eleanor Whisenhunt · Rating 5 out of 5]

I read this book for school and it explains a lot!

[Brittany Gunter · Rating 5 out of 5]

My kids and I have listened to all of these and loved them!

[Angela · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is the 5th of the Exploring Creation Apologia books that we have completed. The writing style (personable with a few anectdotes, direct and simplified but not dumbed down science) was consistent with the others that we've read. We are about to finish the 6th and begin the 7th science book on Physical Science soon. I don't mind how much religion is brought into the books. I read these books aloud to my kids, for the most part, due to my 2nd grader not being able to keep up with both the reading and notebook work on my time schedule. The writing is easy enough for most elementary students to grasp, but still provides a good breadth of knowledge. I was disappointed in this particular book because of what it asserts about dinosaurs being on the Earth while man was on the Earth before the Flood. There was no sound science presented to back up that assertion. The books are written with such a heavy Creationist attitude that they lack the open mindedness of scientific inquiry. While on one hand we have some opinionated scientists asserting there is no God (which they can't prove) we have Creationists denying possibilities they haven't considered because of their certainty of a literal 7 day Creation. Anyway, I was disappointed in how they presented their dinosaur theory. Another wish for this book was that it would have covered more animals. I realize the animal kingdom is large, but I would have liked to see this book cover more of the animals along with the selection of species they chose, which I should add, I think they did a fantastic job at teaching. There are a few errors in the book, (aside from the dinosaurs, which is opinion) but nothing too glaring. For instance, at the end of the book it said Guinea Worms infect millions of people every year, but the known cases worldwide in 2015 were 22. (It used to be millions at one time, in the 80s, but this is no longer the case.)

[Charity · Rating 3 out of 5]

As a Christian who believes that 1) the Bible is not a science textbook and Jesus wasn't trying to be a scientist and 2) Science and faith and evolution can co-exist...it's probably odd for me to choose this text. This text flat-out denies scientific facts at certain points (evolution and dinosaurs and climate change come to mind) and we skip those arguments. However, it's one of the few science books for elementary age kids that doesn't dumb everything down. It gives plenty of room for exploration and uses correct scientific terminology. The accompanying notebooks are excellent.

[Elaine · Rating 3 out of 5]

Maybe it's because it's the end of the school year, but this book wasn't as fulfilling as the other zoology books had been.

[Belle · Rating 5 out of 5]

Has very good images and interesting facts. Not too heavy for young learners.