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Is Tapeestry of Grace CM friendly? A friend and I are thinking of homeschooling together next year. I loaned her my SCM seminar and she has fallen in love with the concepts. But she really wants to use TOG. Has anyone used it?
I’ve never used it but have been told it is a LOT to do. I would just look at what is involved and make sure you can do it and keep within CM’s principles if that’s what you’re hoping to do.
If you look up towards the top of this page to the right, you’ll see the tags listed for this thread. If you’ll click on the “Tapestry of Grace” tag, it will bring up all the threads on the forum here that talk about Tapestry of Grace. You might find some helpful information in some of those previous threads.
Hope that helps!
I bought it twice and resold it without using it years ago. It’s a huge amount of work IMO from going through it carefully. I didn’t care for more than a few of the book choices and it struck me as more classical than CM.
I recently, in the last year, tried to use TOG in a CM fashion. I purchased the TM, and got the first few weeks of books from the library. My DC are all LG, so were the books that I looked at, but I wasn’t very impressed with them. A good portion of them were very dry and boring (say the kids).
I suppose you could find more CM style books to put together with the weeks, but at that point you really don’t need TOG, IMO, unless you are using R or D for the discussion questions. Even then, you could read the book and discuss it with them. Plus, ITA with missceegee is was a ton of work, our school work time increased to about 5 hours per day, whereas we were only doing about 2-3 hours prior with a more CM approach. FWIW, we only used it for 3 weeks.
My understanding from other homeschool moms is that it is classical in approach. It looked classical to me when I spent an hour or two on their web-site at one point.
My family has used ToG for seven years and we love it. Yes, it does require some planning, but it’s simple once you get it firgured out for your family. I’ve settled in to using what works for my family so much that it’s hard for me to recall all of the suggestions and options that are presented and there are a LOT of them. But it’s meant to be picked and chosen from, NOT to all be done. It’s been fun this time in my second time through to see my notes from last time when my oldest kids were so young and to remember the things we did together. Some activities I have repeated with my younger kids and others I’ve chosen differently this time.
THere are a lot of book options given and I’ve learned which ones my family enjoys and which ones we skip over. Some of the time periods are drier than others, but for the most part we’ve been very happy with the reading selections. We read a LOT and that’s important to us.
I don’t use ToG’s grammar or writing. I do use their maps. I’ve just started the discussions with my oldest (he’s 12) and it’s been really wonderful. It’s very solidly Christian in its perspective. HAving our whole family learning together at their own levels has been the best decision we made for our school. I’ve looked at other programs here and there and have always happily come back to ToG, and each time we add a new level or come back around to repeat a year we’ve already done it feels like a new curriculum. I do lean towards being more comfortable with a mix of classical/CM, but it’s been a very easy combination for me to make work.
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