Bear Grylls Survival Camp: A Timberdoodle Review
This is a sponsored post. I received this item from Timberdoodle in exchange for an honest review. These thoughts and words and opinions are, as always on this page and in real and regular life, all completely and totally my own.
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Since they watched the first show with this guy, they’ve been hooked.
My boys love Bear Grylls.
They’ve watched lots of iterations of his show and they’ve read a handful of books by this guy. (They even share the animal name in common with him. Although I don’t think Bear is his given name, my boys’ actual middle names are Fox and Hawkeye. Well, I guess technically Hawkeye is not an animal name but one of his nicknames is Hawke so that counts.)
At any rate, it was an easy yes to review the Bear Grylls Survival Camp book by Timberdoodle because it’s one the boys would have requested anyway.
At Timberdoodle, it’s a part of the 7th grade curriculum kit or it can be ordered individually.
My boys just wrapped up fifth grade and ninth grade and both really enjoyed it. I’d say it falls under the combo of history and geography – and some solid life and survival skills.
The pages are divided into categories – Jungle & Savannah, Forest & Mountain, Oceans & Rivers and more. There is some how to – like using a compass and tying a knot and how to make your own dry bag. And you’ll also find some tidbits of history and we even saw a reference about a book Bergen loved – Kon Tiki.
I think, if you were the well-organized type, you could assign portions of this book for your student to read when covering a particular aspect in another field of study, especially geography.
I didn’t do that. I just let the boys read this one and didn’t try to attach it to another assigned task. Left on the coffee table (which is actually a coffee trunk I guess but who calls it that?) the girls have picked it up and enjoyed it too. It’s not that I think of this as just a subject for one gender, it’s more that my boys were just so excited to see Bear Grylls’ name attached to it that they snatched it up and took it off to their room.
It isn’t exactly the sort of book that you read from cover to cover and narrate from, it’s more like the Usbourne books or topicical books like that.
I did learn how to battle a shark and maybe that’ll be useful one day although I certainly hope not, but my kids are especially fond of the sidebar commentary and highlights – like the one about a pig named Toby that French explorer Jean-Baptiste Charcot took on an Antarctic Ocean exploration. (Spoiler alert: Toby ate a bucket of fish with their hooks still intact. Didn’t serve him well.)
You can order the book from Timberdoodle individually right here.
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