Lately I've received a slew of questions, asking me how I can possibly manage all that? Specifically, people want to know how I can use Tapestry of Grace and everything else?

I feel almost guilty answering, because I'm not sure that my answer will help anyone. The short answer is that we only use the parts of TOG (or any curriculum) that serve us. We don't use it as fully as it is intended to be used, and so the way we use it may not be cost-effective for many.

TOG is meant to be a full-service curriculum: history, literature, worldview, geography, philosophy, government, and even some fine arts. In fact, the reason it is so popular is because it is an all-in-one program. If you use TOG, all you have to do is add in some science, math, and a foreign language, and you're done! But we use it for the history, and some of the literature and geography. And that's it.

I have one student in TOG's Dialectic level, and one in the Upper Grammar level. Our process is the same for both: I assign them the readings, they read them, and then we discuss. I use TOG's teacher notes and discussion questions/answers, and our discussions are excellent. Occasionally, I will have them write out the answers to the history questions on the Dialectic Student Activity Page.

And that's it. It's a small part of our day, which is largely taken up with Latin, math, Greek, and reading.

I know that many people spend hours of their day on TOG. It's certainly meaty enough to do so. However, I just needed a solid dialectic history schedule, one that held my hand through discussions. TOG serves that purpose well. We have very much enjoyed our TOG history.

Will we continue to use it? I don't yet know. This year we are studying modern history, which means that next year it's back to ancients. TOG Year 1, which covers ancient history, will not work for us. Year 1 is overtly, inescapably religious, with a full 14 weeks out of the year spent in reading only the Bible for history. While I do plan on giving my poor heathen children some Bible literacy, that's a little much for us.

Next year is also our first year of high school. For high school, we plan to try The Well-Trained Mind's plan of doing a Great Books study, combining history and literature. If that goes well, we will probably just continue in that vein throughout high school. History is Connor's favorite subject, so I am willing to largely leave the decision-making up to him. He has many options - returning to TOG for the rhetoric level, continuing with Great Books, sampling community college courses, or creating his own course.

For my younger students, we'll go back to our tried and true Story of the World. They will also get Classical Studies through our wonderful co-op, which dovetails nicely.

For my rising 7th grader? I don't yet know. Stay tuned.

People keep asking me, "how's school going?" It's going well, thank you, but let me say that working outside the home makes things challenging. I'm not working that many hours, but still, the fact that I'm working at all seems to affect everything.

My instructional time with the kids is limited to Monday mornings, four hours on Tuesdays and Thursdays, and all of Wednesdays (except that's also the day we'll have to fit in most doctor/dentist/orthodontist appointments). Friday we have our all-day co-op, and while that is a full day of school it's not my school.

So it's challenging. The kids are having to learn to work more independently.

On the one hand, my lack of direct time with them means that what we're doing is not as rich or complete as before. For instance, the older kids are completing their history readings, but we now lack the time to do projects, or much in-depth discussion. (Although thanks to Tapestry of Grace the older kids always end up with some form of meaningful history discussion.)

On the other hand, our fledgeling co-op is fantastic! We co-op teachers are still learning, and finding our way, but already this is a huge benefit to us. The older two are getting weekly Latin and Greek instruction, plus drama, science and a fantastic Greek history course in which they read "Antigone" and discuss Plato. The younger two have art, spelling, baby Latin, natural history, geography, and science.

All of the kids have weekly recitation, at which we also work on singing.

We pulled all this together based solely on a bunch of moms who have never been involved with a co-op, but who had the same goals and were willing to jump in and do it. I teach the lower-level geography class, and the upper-level Latin (Lingua Latina).

Aren't you jealous?

I have fantasies of this continuing and eventually developing into a cottage school. I haven't spoken these words out loud to the other moms, though, and I don't know if they share that dream, or if they will run screaming at the thought. I also don't know if any of them read my blog. I guess I'll find out.

Connor - 8th Grade

• Literature


• Great Expectations


• Huckleberry Finn


• The Red Badge of Courage


• Kidnapped


• The Hound of the Baskervilles


• The Invisible Man


• All Quiet On The Western Front


• Animal Farm


• Lord of the Flies


• Our Town


• Classical Studies


• The Odyssey


• Antigone


• Agamemnon


• History


• Abraham Lincoln's World


• The Gilded Age - A History in Documents


• The Cold War - A History in Documents


• The Good Fight - How World War II Was Won


• Science


• Science Matters - Hazen

Aidan - 6th Grade

• Literature


• Tom Sawyer


• Alice in Wonderland


• The Invisible Man


• 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea


• Lord of the Flies


• Our Town


• History


• Story of the World 4

This is all subject to change. Nor do I expect everything on these lists to get read. Plus, the boys may be involved in a monthly book club, which would read books like Ender's Game, Childhood's End, Watership Down, etc. and where I find the selections worth it, I will modify their school reading so that they can participate in the book club. Plus, I see that we don't really have anything on the Holocaust ... and Connor would love to read biographies of the people involved in WWII.

Call it a reading list in progress :) But aren't they all?

And we're busy. This year we have a weekly D&D group, Lego League, Scouts for everyone, and a new co-op. Plus, I am working part-time as a tutor for Kaplan. So ... it's going to be interesting.

Our plans for this year include:

2nd and 3rd Grades
Right Start Math/Singapore Math
Writing With Ease 2
First Language Lessons
2 (2nd Grade)
Rod and Staff English 3 (3rd Grade, until I can buy FLL 3 - OR I may go with the incomparable Kathy Jo's Language Lessons Through Literature - just published! Do yourself a favor, and check this out!
History/Literature selections drawn from The Latin-Centered Curriculum

The Writing Road to Reading (co-op)
Song School Latin (co-op)
Song School Greek (co-op)
Geography (co-op)
Science/Nature/Art (co-op)

6th Grade
Latin Prep 1 (plus Cambridge Latin at co-op)
Elementary Greek 1 (co-op)
Singapore Math 5-6
Classical Writing Homer B
Tapestry of Grace Upper Grammar/Dialectic Year 3/4 (modern history 1850-present)
Literature and Classical Studies drawn from The Well-Trained Mind, TOG and LCC
Greek History (co-op)
Science (co-op)
Drama (co-op)

8th Grade
Latin Prep 2/3 (plus Lingua Latina at co-op)
Elementary Greek 2 (co-op)
Dolciani Algebra I/II (he's about 2/3 finished with algebra I)
Classical Writing Diogenes Chreia
TOG Dialectic/Rhetoric Year 3/4 (modern history 1850-present)
Literature and Classical Studies drawn from WTM, LCC, TOG
Greek History (co-op)
Drama (co-op)
Science - Science Matters (Hazen) and The Joy of Science lectures, also by Hazen, from The Teaching Company, plus experiments for a general overview of science.

I think this means we will have no time for drawing, this year, which is irritating. You can't do everything, though. We're going to be in the car a great deal, which is where I will pull out music appreciation and poetry CDs.

We've just finished week 3. So far, so good. The older two are currently reading:

Aidan - Tom Sawyer, D'Aulaire's Norse Myths, Story of the World 4
Connor - Great Expectations, The Odyssey, Abraham Lincoln's World, and This Country Of Ours

I would link more for you, but MT is not behaving, and I just want to post. something.

The Birth Partner - Penny Simkin

A Good Birth, A Safe Birth Third Revised Edition - Korte and Scaer

Women's Bodies, Women's Wisdom - Christiane Northrup

The Girlfriends' Guide to Pregnancy - Vicki Iovine

Natural Childbirth the Bradley Way - Susan McCutcheon

Spiritual Midwifery - Ina May Gaskin

Special Delivery - Rahima Baldwin Dancy

Heart & Hands, A Midwife's Guide to Pregnancy and Birth - Elizabeth Davis

Immaculate Deception II - Suzanne Arms

Pregnancy, Childbirth and the Newborn - Penny Simkin

Birthing From Within - Pam England

The Pilates Pregnancy - Mari Winsor

Gentle Birth Choices, plus video (VHS) - Barbara Harper

Holistic Midwifery - Anne Frye ($50)

Myles Textbook for Midwives - Bennett/Brown (hardcover)

Many of these are well-loved, and I'll adjust the pricing accordingly. Please email me at mamalynx@gmail.com for pricing and payment info. And thank you so much, those of you who linked my sales at your blogs - that's a great help! Anyone may feel free to do so!

The economic times have hit us hard. Jeff has been unemployed for several months now, and I'm liquidating books and curricula to help us out of this hole.

I'll be adding more to this list, so please check back! For most items, make me an offer (an offer that includes shipping cost and bears market price in mind). I have listed a price for certain items. Please email me about item quality. Elson readers are all the older versions, not the recently republished versions.

I have struck through the items that have been sold, and am marking the items that are pending.

Educational Materials:
Kingfisher Illustrated History of the World (the white one)
Homeschooling For Excellence - Colfax
A Charlotte Mason Education - Catherine Levison
More Charlotte Mason Education - Catherine Levison
Stories and Poems For Exceptional Children of All Ages - Howard Bloom (used with Lightning Literature) (pending)
What Your 3rd Grader Needs to Know
What Your 4th Grader Needs to Know (pending)
Latin Book One - Horn
Using Latin Book One - Horn
Using Latin Book Three - Horn
The Elson Readers Book 3
Classical Rhetoric and Its Christian and Secular Tradition from Ancient to Modern Times - George Kennedy
The Harp and Laurel Wreath - Berquist (pending)
Designing Your Own Classical Curriculum - Berquist (pending)
Elson Primary School Reader Book Two
Learning All The Time - Holt
Dumbing Us Down - Gatto
American History to 1877 - Eisenstadt
The Landmark History of the American People - Boorstin
Knowing and Teaching Elementary Mathematics - Liping Ma
Latin Via Proverbs
Science Explorer - Chemical Building Blocks
Literary Lessons From Lord of the Rings - Teacher’s Manual ($50)
R.E.A.L. Science Pre-Level 1 Chemistry
Introduction to Classical Studies - Memoria Press (pending)
Exploring the Sky - Moeschl
The Writing Road to Reading - 4th and 5th editions
Spell to Write and Read - Sanseri
Civilization - 10th edition (history text used with Connect the Thoughts curriculum)
Tapestry of Grace Year 2 Units 3 and 4 (with Loom disks, $40 each) (pending)
Rod and Staff English 3 student text and teacher’s book
Elson Grammar School Reader Book Three
Education in Ancient Rome - Bonner
The Dangerous Book for Boys
Norms and Nobility - David Hicks

Science and History:
The Druids - Stuart Piggot
Stars and Planets - Muirden
In The Shadow of the Alamo - Sherry Garland
Backyard Ballistics - Gurstelle

Literature/Mythology
A Wonder Book - Hawthorne
Tanglewood Tales - Hawthorne
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court - Twain

Parenting and Health:
The Ten Principles of Spiritual Parenting - Mary Doe
How to Raise a Healthy Child In Spite Of Your Doctor - Robert Mendelsohn
A Mother’s Guide to Raising Healthy Children Naturally - Sue Frederick
Yoga Made Easy - Howard Kent
Taking Charge of Your Fertility - Weschler
Women’s Bodies, Women’s Wisdom - Christiane Northrup
The Wonder of Boys - Michael Gurian
Firm for Life - Anna and Cynthia Benson (pending)

Music:
Music Theory - George Jones
INXS - The Official Autobiography
Elementary Harmony - Robert Ottman

Organization:
Organize Yourself! - Ronni Eisenberg
The Family Manager’s Everyday Survival Guide - Kathy Peel
Confessions of an Organized Homemaker - Schofield
Confessions of a Happily Organized Family - Schofield

Gardening:
Lasagna Gardening - Patricia Lanza
Roots, Shoots, Buckets and Boots - Lovejoy

Miscellaneous Books:
Home Buying for Dummies

I also have many books on childbirth/midwifery, plus a complete set of Great Books of the Western World that I'm willing to sell (pending). I'll put the childbirth/midwifery books up soon, but don't hesitate to ask if there's anything you're looking for.

Email me at: mamalynx@gmail.com

The three-week study of Simon Bolivar is, in reality, an excuse to jump into the study of South America for a few weeks. We can do that.

I broke down and bought the main recommended text:

I highly recommend this book. It covers the history of each country in South America in a style that is easily readable, but not condescending. It includes information about local flora and fauna, and resources. It does not shy away from discussing the drug trade. I'm glad I bought it, as the library system simply has nothing comparable.

And South America is fun, and interesting. So we will, after all, follow the progam.

We plan to read about him, yes; but can anyone give me a compelling reason for spending three weeks on him? Right now, I'm thinking we will condense the study into one week, and move on.

Am I missing some reason to go in-depth here? In 5th and 7th grade?

We attended the D.C. New American Tea Party, and had a great time! I will happily go again. Approximately 300 people were there, all energetic, all enthusiastic, and all fed up with the way the government is handling our money.

One of the piggy pork balloons

One of my favorite signs

It is true, and funny, that more conservative folks don't know how to have a good protest. We tried, but it's just not in our natures. We're not good at outraged chanting. We're outraged, yes, but screaming and chanting slogans? It's just ... not us. Or maybe it's just the more libertarian conservatives, because Republicans chanted well enough at their rallies. Either way, this Tea Party group need some work. Yes. Nevertheless, we were all having a good, outraged time, and I hope there are more. I am happy to do this. Thrilled!

And we all had a good laugh at the Wall Street Journal column covering the event (no, I'm not going to bother linking). This columnist described the gathering as a group of zombies, chanting dead slogans from the zombie Right. I ought to go back and count the number of times he used the word "zombies." If he uses the word enough times, that makes it true, right? Plus, if you want to make your point that this was an insignificant, tiny gathering of whiners, you'd do better to ignore us completely. Spending an entire column to proclaim our irrelevance doesn't quite get the job done. Who's whining?

Afterwards, we spent the rest of the afternoon at the Smithsonian. For Friday science (and history) we took in their exhibit on atomic power/bombs. To tie in with history we viewed the flag that flew at Ft. McHenry during the War of 1812, the one that Francis Scott Key was watching when he wrote "The Star-Spangled Banner." That, folks, is an amazing thing to see.

In the meantime, my science post struck a chord with many of you. The lack of decent science curricula is, I think, the single biggest curriculum problem homeschooling has. More specifically, it's the single biggest secular curriculum problem. So I will write more about it, soon.

In the meantime, here's our homeschooling update:

For science, we went to the National Zoo, and learned many things about pandas.

In history, we are doing Tapestry of Grace Year 3, Week 2: "Napoleon: The Man and His Career." Yes, yes, we are still enjoying Tapestry of Grace. Honest. But I'd like to make a note, here: TOG is meant to be an almost all-encompassing curriculum. And, frankly, using it like that gives you your best value for the money. Lately I've been encountering some virtual eye-rolling, and exhortations to not burn my kids out with overkill, by having them do TOG *and* LCC, etc.

Many new homeschoolers start off with an overabundance of zeal, trying to combine every program, every method, in an attempt to give their student that mythical education "without gaps." And then they burn out, because it can't be done. I can see why people who don't know me might look at the program I've worked out for my kids, and shake their heads.

However, every piece of curriculum is a tool, and your homeschooling lives will be much, much more relaxed and productive the faster you realize this. TOG is not all-encompassing for us. We use the parts I like, and we use it within my framework. And as such, it fits in very well with an LCC framework, because I make it do so.

Sometimes I wish we had some kind of universal internet signifier, so that people who do not know you would know to not respond to you as if you are a newbie.

(Selections marked with an asterisk are part our our Latin-Centered Curriculum (LCC) reading, or selections scheduled in Classical Writing.)

Connor's Reading (D):

• The Diary of a Napoleonic Foot Soldier
  I had to buy this, as it was nowhere in our library system. It was well worth the purchase. It's always nice to find that your student can't put down the school assignment.


• This week he finished Mr. Midshipman Hornblower (Hornblower Saga)
  


• Selections from The Struggle for Sea Power


• The Iliad*, using Drew Campbell's most excellent study guide


• Julius Caesar*

Aidan's Reading (UG):

• Diary of an Early American Boy: Noah Blake 1805
  This is a big hit, too!


• Selections from Story of the World 3


• D'Aulaire's Greek Myths*

For the Lower Grammar kids TOG schedules a good selection of fairy tales, which fits in perfectly with their LCC literature. This week we did Rapunzel, as well as a book called I, Crocodile a picture book about a crocodile stolen away to Paris by Napoleon. Talk about a hit - they requested it two more times today!

We made salt dough maps of imaginary lands. I have not yet taken pictures of those, but will try to remember to do so later this week.

For our study of the presidents, we are using the ones found here. And really, every week I check Rivendell Press and plunder everything she's posted. I'm so glad that she's a few weeks ahead of me!

In other news, we had birthdays. Connor is now 13, and Aidan is 11. We also found a group of kids that meets once a week to play D&D, which is just the social outlet the older boys needed. It seems wrong to me, though, to gather on a weekday afternoon to play D&D. I think that once every couple of weeks all the boys ought to meet on a Friday night and sleep over, playing D&D late into the night. Isn't that how it's supposed to be done?

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Y'all know that we've never really done science in our homeschool. Not formal science. We try, and fail. And try again, and fail. We don't fail because we're not science-minded, or because we don't have an interest; I think we...
lynx blog@caerdroia.org Homeschool Journal Y'all know that we've never really done science in our homeschool. Not formal science. We try, and fail. And try again, and fail.

We don't fail because we're not science-minded, or because we don't have an interest; I think we fail because we do have an interest. Looking at elementary science programs usually led me to screaming off into the night. And frankly, most junior high programs aren't much better. They generally give bits of information with little depth, are full of busy work, and require "experiments" that are really demonstrations that do nothing to inspire curiosity.

The higher levels of Singapore Science held us for awhile, because they contain more critical thinking and open-ended questioning than most texts. And the experiments require cooler materials. I am, so far, more likely to go back to that than any other. We also quite liked Real Science 4 Kids' Chemistry program, but it is short.

(And anyway, why do I need a program to teach science to kids who just yammered at me for the last hour, telling me everything they read about the potential for life on Mars, and at how many atmospheres humans can function, and the exact mechanisms of death in space?)

But the time has come to try "science" again, mainly because I want to shore up a few things before sending my oldest out to the community college for real classes; and I think my current approach will serve us much better than the various programs available. So here I present to you one version of a not-formal-science curriculum:

We are using the Elements Newsletter from How To Teach Science to learn about the periodic table. This is something you can do as a family, with all age groups. It's easy, and it's fun. For instance, after reading about hydrogen this week, the older boys and I ended up spending time at the website for the Dihydrogen Monoxide Research Center, an excellent example of how you can use science and factual information to create alarm about anything. Now, that's a valuable lesson about science.

When my budget permits, I'm going to sign up for a subscription to the Bite Size Physics website. This is something the older two can do on their own, and if we aren't able to do the demonstrations ourselves, we can watch YouTube videos of them. The little boys will enjoy either the experiments or the videos.

We are going to borrow Physics In Your Life from the library; this lecture schedules optional readings from Conceptual Physics. All in all, this will be the equivalent of a decent, pre-math physics survey.

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As I sit down to plan this next semester (yes, I got a late start), I find that my reading list is ... gone. Completely and utterly gone. Not only have I lost the list of works I had planned...
lynx blog@caerdroia.org Homeschool Journal As I sit down to plan this next semester (yes, I got a late start), I find that my reading list is ... gone. Completely and utterly gone. Not only have I lost the list of works I had planned to be read this year, I've lost the list of what we have read.

Oh, boy.

And as I look ahead, I see that most of TOG's literature selections for the next 18 weeks are just not in my plans. They're fine choices, but they're not my choices. So far, it seems to me that TOG's rhetoric-level literature is very good, but I find a lot of what I consider "filler" in their lower levels.

Here is my reconstructed list for the rest of the year, for Connor (2nd half of 7th grade):

Novels

Mr. Midshipman Hornblower

Carry On, Mr. Bowditch

A Christmas Carol (Or, if he thinks it's too late to be reading Christmas stories, perhaps Oliver Twist or really, any other Dickens. I'm not picky.

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

The Princess and the Goblin


Short Stories

Grimm's Fairy Tales

Selections by Rip Van Winkle

Selections by Poe


Poetry

The Pied Piper of Hamelin - Robert Browning

Selections by Poe


TOG Schedules Island of the Blue Dolphins. I remember reading that, for fun, in jr. high. Do I want to schedule it as a school assignment? I'm asking, seriously. I don't remember it well enough to make that call. TOG also schedules "worldview" assignments for the rhetoric level, aimed at getting teens missionary-minded; I may take their assignments and turn them into a study of comparative religions. Hinduism seems to be first up.

At any rate, this list is *plenty* long. It's only meant to take us until summer. And at the same time he's reading those, he's also reading the Iliad, he's nearly finished with Julius Caesar, and he'll read The Merchant of Venice.

So, PLENTY. Maybe even too much. Now I've got to figure out what the heck we did read this year, already.

We're about to start on TOG Year 3, which roughly covers the 19th century. My challenge in planning for this is to remember to not go too deeply into TOG, and to remember that it is not my real focus. Everything is going well. We are progressing. Soon, Connor will take the NLE Lain I exam, and Aidan will take the Intro to Latin exam; Connor will take the National Mythology Exam. Both boys are in a PE class this year, and are starting up with a D&D/RPG group. Connor is doing well in Boy Scouts, and is currently the leader of his patrol; Aidan is on track to get his Arrow of Light and cross over to Boy Scouts later this year.

And the two little ones are mostly tagging along, refining their reading and writing, and creating elaborate games.

And no, no, no, we are not planning on going downtown for the Inauguration. Yes, it's historical. But no.

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My kids have been clustered around the Alien Earths website for nearly two hours. It contains an infrared, edge-on galaxy viewer (very, very cool!); and the ever-popular "Planet Families" game, in which you get to build star systems. Fun stuff!...
lynx blog@caerdroia.org Resources My kids have been clustered around the Alien Earths website for nearly two hours.

It contains an infrared, edge-on galaxy viewer (very, very cool!); and the ever-popular "Planet Families" game, in which you get to build star systems. Fun stuff!

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Our holidays were nice, but busy. Christmas was the first time in ... ? I don't know. Sixteen years, maybe? The first time in about 16 years that my brother, my parents and I were all together. We also got...
lynx blog@caerdroia.org Our holidays were nice, but busy.

Christmas was the first time in ... ? I don't know. Sixteen years, maybe? The first time in about 16 years that my brother, my parents and I were all together. We also got to meet my brother's new wife, who we liked immediately, and to spend some time with my niece and nephew.

Our Christmas was a Very Whedon Christmas. Jeff and I gave each other the complete Buffy series, Aidan received the script and sheet music to "Once More, With Feeling!" and Jeff received a copy of the Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog DVD. After repeated viewings, as well as watching "Commentary: The Musical!" and the Evil League of Evil application videos, well, we're still walking around singing. All of us. And we're trying to figure out how we can get enough money to become patrons of the arts, because that sounds so much nicer, and more legal, than "stalking Joss Whedon."

And, oh yes, the Wii. Jeff and I like to play Wii golf together, of all things. And I am quite fond of the Rabbids. The Wii Fit is used daily by almost all, and will form most of our winter PE.

Between Christmas and New Year's we went on a tour of the White House. It was all decorated for Christmas. It's funny; I was responding to it as a very pretty house, full of very pretty things, until we got into the East Room. Then I realized that we were standing in the same room in which John F. Kennedy and Abraham Lincoln had both lain in state. That - that was emotional. So much history is in that house, that it's perhaps a bit much to take it all in. I get the same effect from watching my kids play on the lawn at Mt. Vernon.

My kids were disappointed. For some reason they thought that Laura Bush was going to be our tour guide. Wouldn't that have been fun? I did learn that I like Mrs. Bush's taste in art. It will be interesting to go back to see what Mrs. Obama changes.

We had a quiet New Year's and New Year's Day (more Dr. Horrible, more Wii, and lots of Ticket to Ride, as well). I had a birthday (more Wii, more Ticket to Ride, Carcassonne - The Discovery). And whew! Here we are.

We did start school this week. More on that, later.

Hey, Daniel Kirk! You left me a comment asking how to find me on Facebook. I tried to find you on Facebook, but apparently there are many Daniel Kirks and so far none of them are you. I think that this is the link you can use to find me. I think. For anyone who is interested.

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