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Homeschooling Simplicity: Simplifying Tapestry

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I’m trying to achieve simplicity for the rest of this year and the upcoming year, to give my kids a quality education while allowing us to live life, the life God’s given us. I’ve been tackling several different areas of our homeschool where I felt the pressure getting a little out of hand, one of those has been our integrated history studies through Tapestry of Grace. Because Tapestry includes plans for all twelve grades and ideas for all the learning styles, it can easily become too much if you try to do it all. It’s meant to be a buffet,…

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Tapestry of Grace, after a year

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This year was our first (long-awaited) year for both classical education and Tapestry of Grace curriculum. And it was as awesome as I dreamed it would be. There definitely was a learning curve and lots of adjustments along the way, but the core of what I was looking forward to with Tapestry was definitely accomplished. Tapestry of Grace is a classical/unit studies curriculum that covers the humanities: history, geography, art, writing/literature, and Bible/church history.  It is full of read-alouds and hands-on learning. It is absolutely anything you want to make it to be, which is why there’s a learning curve. The…

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Planning Tapestry (and free planner page)

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The last couple of months, I’ve spent getting familiar with Tapestry, looking over all of our options, listening to the Pop Quiz CDs (audio summaries of each week designed to keep Dad in the loop), making out mock schedules, and haunting the forums. The chief obstacle is how to fit all this goodness into a single week! Over and over again, the advice is to select off the buffet of Tapestry and to NOT try to do it all. But even with my selections, there simply aren’t enough hours in the day to enjoy it all! Which is why I’ve…

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Eeny Meeny Miny Mo: selecting books for Tapestry of Grace

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Choosing books from my Tapestry of Grace plans has been somewhat of a challenge. There are so many fun options! And yet I know there’s no way we’ll truly enjoy this if I try to do it all. Then, too, there’s the issue of the budget. So, there were quite a few books to get nixed from the list. With such a monumental task, I thought I’d share my strategy (so that I’ll remember next year when I have to do this all over again.) Though many veteran TOG bloggers have suggested purchasing the books one unit at a time,…

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Bonding with Tapestry

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While I waited to be able to use Tapestry with my children, I greedily devoured any blog post I could google on the topic. And in the last two years, I’ve really been blessed with a wealth of terrific advice on getting started. In some small sense, I hardly feel like a rookie. As I click on my DE plans, I hear the myriad voices coaching me through what to look at and which elements to notice. Of course, the “Teacher Training” DVDs helped immensely as well, as Marcia Somerville talked me through the philosophy and set-up of Tapestry. For…

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Unpacking Tapestry

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The day has finally, finally come. After two years of biding my time and patiently preparing… I am finally unpacking my first year’s plans of Tapestry of Grace. I first discovered Tapestry when my son was just getting ready for K4, and immediately knew that this was exactly what we wanted from our homeschool experience: the classical education, the whole-family learning approach, the strong emphasis on Bible and church history. I drooled over every free sample they posted, and we waited for the day when my son could read—k4, kindergarten, and now first grade approaches. Eek! My heart absolutely raced…

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Middle School Homeschool Curriculum Favorites

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This homeschool year, I have two of my kids in middle school—6th grade and 8th grade. To say I was nervous about these transitions would be an understatement. Though I definitely miss the lower elementary years of crafts and messy projects, adventurous learning and cozy read-alouds, these years of growth and independence and deep conversations have been a blast as well. I actually love homeschooling my middle schoolers. And while settling on homeschool curriculum for middle school has been a little bit of trial and error, I’m pretty happy with how our year has wrapped up.