What we are working on . . .

I wanted to start this semester off by moving on from our medieval overview and into a focus on early American history.  Here's how we're accomplishing that:

We are using Unit 3 of Tapestry of Grace's Year 2 curriculum.  This is an 8 week unit study of colonial American history, a topic which we have never specifically addressed before.  It will probably take us a bit longer than that, since we have several "life" events that will be popping up here and there.  My children like that they get to help schedule what they will be doing each week and when, so for now they are liking it very much!

We will be using it in a more secular manner than it is written, and I started up a Yahoo group for anyone else who wants to discuss the ins and outs of using Tapestry of Grace from a more secular perspective.  Here's the link for anyone who is interested:  togsecular.

This has been a tough winter, healthwise, so I am happy to be using a program that gives me some direction for planning lessons.  It doesn't plan out every detail, however, so I can still feed my need to have fun with planning without getting overwhelmed by researching every possible resource on Amazon, which is what I had been doing!

I can commit to this for 8 weeks of instruction, no problem!  And because you purchase the program unit by unit, I can change to something else at any point that it stops working for us or fitting our needs.  I don't have to feel like I am locked in to something for an entire year, whether it works or not.  I'm really hoping that this is a good match for our unique health AND educational needs.