A Yummy Way to Learn about Geography

One of our first crafts with Tapestry of Grace was a salt map to show all the various landforms that they were studying. Next we did a cookie dough map. That was a big hit with all the kids. It was suppose to be of the US and show the major landforms. Don't think that was accomplished, but it was fun and yummy! I will post a picture of the salt maps soon.

Great Resource for Free and Low Cost Audio Books

We love books.

We love reading them.

We love listening to them.

And that is a good thing because with Tapestry of Grace, you read A LOT. We are covering the 19th Century this year and that is a lot of ground to cover in one year if you are like me who doesn't want to miss anything. So many fun things to learn about in this time period.

With so many books to read, it is great when I can find one of them available in audio form. So I was thrilled to find a new site for unabridged audio books - many for free. Check it out! It is well organized and so helpful for homeschooling if you, like us, enjoy supplementing your reading with audio books.

Tapestry of Grace

We started school this week. Yeah! We were anxious to start a new curriculum. The last 2 years, we have done Sonlight and thoroughly enjoyed it. Our schooling method has always a mix of Classical and Charlotte Mason and very much literature based. Sonlight was perfect in many ways. The only problem (or at least, the main one) was that it was getting difficult to teach two different cores and eventually, I would need to add a 3rd.

So, I started looking more closely at Tapestry of Grace . It allows you to teach all the different ages of kids using the same teachers guide. So Kate in 7/8th grade, Jack in 4th/5th and Mary who is just starting out will all be studying the 19th Century (We are doing year 3) having the same - or very similar focus-but reading books at their own level. It is a brilliant system really. I think Marcia Sommerville (the creator) is quite the genius. History, literature, geography, writing, church history / worldview are woven together along with the time period we are studying. High school adds in government and philosophy.

We are really loving it! This week we are studying Napoleon, the French Revolution and John Adams. It has been fascinating. Maybe I'm weird though. I LOVE History!

I am adding a link for free webinars by Marcia Sommerville. I highly recommend them for anyone - not just a Tapestry user. Enjoy!