Sep. 10, 2008 - Homeschool Memoir #4 Something New

This week at Homeschool Blog Awards they are asking us to share what we are doing new this year.

This will be our first year doing the Redesigned Tapestry of Grace Year One.  We have already gone through Classic Tapestry of Grace Years 2, 3, and 4.  This revised edition looks to be much easier to use and as always, very thorough.  It is by far my favorite curriculum.

The other new item on our list this year is the One Year Adventure Novel.  The girls started this last Tuesday and have really been inspired by it.  I originally leaned about this program from an ad right here at Homeschoolblogger.com.  I clicked on the link, explored their website and signed up to receive a free demo DVD.  After watching the demo with the girls we decided that we would do it.  I have been watching the video lessons with the girls and have found them to be very informative and entertaining.  The first semester is a series of lessons on setting up your outline, characters and plot. The second semester is actually putting the meat on the story and getting your novel written.  It is a very ambitious goal, but with perseverance and hard work, by the end of the school year they should have a completed adventure novel!

To read what others families are trying new this year, go to the Homeschool Blog Awards and read Homeschool Memoirs #4.
 

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Sep. 10, 2008 - Untitled Comment

Posted by momofmhasr

hope you have a good year.

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Sep. 10, 2008 - Untitled Comment

Posted by Sisterlisa

I would love to hear more about Tapestry of Grace. Please share with me what you are learning. :O)

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Posted by 4sweetums

That adventure novel looks really neat. Thanks for sharing it.
Blessings,
Dawn~4sweetums

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Sep. 10, 2008 - Untitled Comment

Posted by solidrock

TOG is very good! I am sure you will learn so much right along with your kids.

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Sep. 10, 2008 - Hi!

Posted by Eyebright

Thank you very much for your comment, I was excited when I saw that I had a comment from Breezy and Emily Rose's mother! :)

Oh, I loved doing the book. It was scrapbooking in a sense, but it was a small enough project so that it didn't feel overwhelming. I am not usually rooster fan, but lately I have been more and more attracted to farm motifs, and the like.

The One Year Adventure Novel sounds really interesting. I have tried to write a ton of books, and usually never get past the second chapter. I don't think it is from a want of outlining and character sketches, which I don't usually do, but rather a lack of persistance. I just loose interest after a while.

Also, even though I have graduated, I still get excited by looking at school books, and want to do them, and learn from them.

Have a very bright, very cheerful day!
Miss Eyebright

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Sep. 10, 2008 - OH WOW!

Posted by SuperAngel

I love your new header! that is so gorgeous and so you!

I read about this over at Emily's blog. It looks like you all are going to have a great school year!

Can't wait to see ya tomorrow! :)
Miss Amanda
http://superangelsblog.com

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Sep. 11, 2008 - Untitled Comment

Posted by Anonymous

I've heard a LOT of good things about Tapestry of Grace and the novel sounds exciting!

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Sep. 13, 2008 - schedule

Posted by watalulu

A schedule...did I hear someone say schedule? Yes that word is mentioned a lot at our house. Similarly, we ask some of the same questions. When we get off schedule and everything goes down the drain in a hurry, one of us usually will quote a line from a famous movie, ie. "They were more like guidelines anyway". lol

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Sep. 13, 2008 - Oops

Posted by watalulu

I meant for this comment to be on your entry for 9/3/08, so just pretend it is THERE instead of HERE.

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Sep. 16, 2008 - Hello Mrs. Blue-Eggs

Posted by RaspberryPixieMuffin

Hello Mrs. Blue-Eggs-
Just wanted you to know that I finally got to put a post on my blog. It's about me potty-training. Want to come by and comment on it?
http://homeschoolblogger.com/RaspberryPixieMuffin/590675/
There is the post link. Hope you will come by and read it.

Your new header is so cute. Breezy is so talented! I love that girlie!
Love you Mrs. Blue-Eggs and hope to see you soon,
LucyLillie
aka THE Raspberry Pixie Muffin

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Sep. 16, 2008 - Love your new header...

Posted by rjdjohn316

Breezy is such a talented girl. I love watercolours. I suspect that that is you and the girls in the header. It looks like you all. And she incorperated learning in it, (i.e. you teaching them and showing them the birds.) Beautiful.

It was lovely seeing you all again soon. I hope we will get to again, before the three months is up. :) Miss you all.

OH and our cat had six kittens. Want to come by and see them? One of them died or she would have had seven. We have four girls and two boys. The one that died was a girl. :(

Love,
Rachel
http://dixonhomestead.com/rachel

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