Homeschooling for His Glory

We  have entered our 3rd year of using Tapestry of Grace and could not say that I have really a system down when it comes to planning out Tapestry. This year, because I want to accomplish more from the curriculum (up to now I was focusing on History, Geography and Literature), I am attempting a more rigorous planning system. Here I will lay it out and we shall see how it turns out in practice. Before the year started, for Unit 1: Made a list of what needs to be done every week, such as: literature assignment, which project, map work etc... Made a list of the vocabulary words to be entered in Spelling City for each week. Printed out the maps needed for each week. Make a master list of timelines figures and dates. Week before: Order books from the library (preferably early in the week or better yet 2 weeks before. Mark the pages in each books that we are going to read. Gather supplies for projects  Enter the week's vocabulary words into Spelling City Our week's s...

Here we are at day 3 of the 5 days of  ... blog hop. I have been having a blast reading my other crewmates' blog posts on topics such as Traveling with Kids, Artistic Expression, Social Media, Classical Education and lots more. I hope you have enjoyed reading about my different curriculum evaluations. Today we will be tackling Tapestry of Grace . I heard about tapestry of Grace a couple of years ago. Considering myself more of a classical homeschooler, I was very attracted to Tapestry. Why? because Tapestry's philosophy of learning is classical. It follows the Trivium's stages of grammar, dialectic and rhetoric. On top of that it also follows the classical 4 year cycle through History. We are now in our second year and will definitely continue on with this program up to grade 12. Tapestry of Grace is more of a unit study kind of curriculum but it is literature, living books and Great Books based as well. The core of the program rests on the reading of good l...