Feb. 21, 2007
Homeschool Update
Finally, a chance to sit down and relax - for a few minutes, anyway. Sorry I have not had time to read or comment on other blogs. We took last week off from "school" for a semester break (which was spent cleaning house - and now the house is back to being a mess!), and we are having a hard time getting back into things this week. My older boys might be taking the next few weeks off from homeschooling so they can help their dad at work. He is in the process of buying a new restaurant very close to our house, and there will be a lot of work to do once he gets the keys - which should be this Friday or Saturday. He hopes to open in about one month - hopefully a little sooner.
I've decided I am not going to continue with Mystery of History next school year. It is a great curriculum, and if I had a household chef and maid doing my work for me, so that I could spend one on one time with each child for every subject, I would continue to use it with my 12yo. In fact, I still might buy volume 2 just to use for reading. But it is not challenging enough for my high schooler and my little ones just don't care for it, so we need to find something everyone can do together.
I keep going back to the Tapestry of Grace website because I really feel like that is what we are supposed to be doing. I felt the same thing last year but it just looked overwhelming to me so I didn't buy it. So unless the LORD directs me otherwise, we will be starting Tapestry of Grace Year 2 in the fall. There will be a 400-year gap in our chronological study of history, but from what I understand, the first few weeks are review of the previous year, so we should still be able to learn about that time period during the review.
I'm not sure if I want to use the language arts portion of TOG, though. I would really have to sit down with a copy of it in my hands before deciding. I'd like to use Learn to Write the Novel Way or Write Your Roots for the older boys, and First Language Lessons and Ordinary Parents Guide to Reading for my littles - I just wonder if it would be more or less teacher-intensive to do language arts that way or the TOG way.
I'd love it if some other homeschooling family nearby was starting the same Tapestry of Grace Year 2 at the same time so we could work through it together - not neccessarily a co-op but more for the moms to figure out what they're doing! I could really use that help and encouragement!
Oh, I almost forgot to mention this but my 7yo is finally getting the hang of reading! He's about a year or so behind in reading skills because of his phonological disorder. Last week he read the entirity of Go, Dog, Go! He kept us up until almost midnight reading it, but he wouldn't stop until he was done. He was very proud of himself and we were very proud of him, too. |
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