Sentiments a la Stack: So What's New with Tapestry of Grace???

Well I'm so glad that you asked. In the 21 weeks since I GOT Tapestry of Grace...we've taken off about 6 weeks due to summer and fun and vacation...which leaves us at 15 weeks of actual school. Several of the weeks were SO full of information we took several weeks to complete ONE week of information. So here we are at the end of week 9 and we are taking NOT QUITE twice as long to do a week as is scheduled...And you know what...I DON'T CARE! We are having a blast. Learning stuff at our own pace...and even the little girls are getting in on the act.

I was having a hard time pulling everything together for a final unit review so I dug out my board this week. Week 10 is the end of the unit, but it doesn't look like it's going to take two weeks to do so I need to get it together.

Here is the board for weeks 8 and 9...

I've been checking stuff off like a wild thing. There is nothing quite so lovely as REMEMBERING to review stuff with your kids. You'll just have to trust me...I am the QUEEN of forgetting to review things because those things slip MY mind.

Anyway, by the end of this week we will have reviewed or RE-learned (if necessary) all the stuff on this list and next week should just be a piece of cake...As I've said, there isn't a ton of stuff there...And then on to a new and wonderful section of history.

There are still a few struggles that I'm having with Tapestry. Honestly there is so much potential that I have a really hard time scaling it down. We had one week (week 7) that took us 4 weeks to get all the way through because I decided we'd read EVERYTHING in both the Upper and Lower Grammar. Because I read MOST of the upper grammar stuff into the MP3 players...I knew that JUST the upper grammar readings that I had recorded were almost 4 hours, and that didn't count the individual readings and picture books that we were reading.

Weeks 8 and 9 have been much better as far as scaling back, but because we dropped a few readings, I'm finding I'm having to do more general lecture than I did, because when you read IT ALL, all the words and objectives are there somewhere. Oh well, the general lecture doesn't take NEAR the amount of time ALL the reading did, and Beanie is happier with a little less...she was getting a little overwhelmed, understandably.

So I'm still a fan. A little wiser perhaps than I was...but I still love it. We are ALL learning so much.

As for other stuff, I want the girls to WANT to learn to cook so we are having a dessert Friday until the end of the year. I kind of decided it on the fly, so this week wasn't particularly healthy or homemade; we had boxed cupcakes with canned white frosting that we colored with food coloring. But we sure had fun making them...scratch that, we had fun snitching them at every step. We were lucky to have any cupcakes to eat...