yvonne
01-27-2008, 05:25 PM
Has anyone looked at both Omnibus and TOG? Why did you choose one over the other? Is the big difference that TOG is mostly history-centered and Omnibus is more Great Books centered? I guess TOG has a Protestant slant and Omnibus has a Reformed slant, but I don't know how much that permeates the two curricula.
My oldest are only 7, so this is not even on the horizon for me yet. I've been looking at TOG or Omnibus more for myself, but I'd rather choose the one that I'd be more likely to use with the children when they reach that age.
From reading posts of moms of grammar aged children vs posts of moms of high school aged children, it seems that there is so much more time for self-education when one's children are younger. Or there would be if I didn't spend so much time comparing/researching curricula. (It's so much fun, though! But at this point, in the end, it yields relatively little for me, since I've pretty much figured out what's out there and what works for us.) By the time kids are high school aged, homeschooling moms have to really run to keep up with them. So I was thinking I should put more time into actually reading something than reading *about* how to teach that something. :)
Oh, my, long & rambling again. Perhaps the best use of my time right now would be a writing class! :)
yvonne
My oldest are only 7, so this is not even on the horizon for me yet. I've been looking at TOG or Omnibus more for myself, but I'd rather choose the one that I'd be more likely to use with the children when they reach that age.
From reading posts of moms of grammar aged children vs posts of moms of high school aged children, it seems that there is so much more time for self-education when one's children are younger. Or there would be if I didn't spend so much time comparing/researching curricula. (It's so much fun, though! But at this point, in the end, it yields relatively little for me, since I've pretty much figured out what's out there and what works for us.) By the time kids are high school aged, homeschooling moms have to really run to keep up with them. So I was thinking I should put more time into actually reading something than reading *about* how to teach that something. :)
Oh, my, long & rambling again. Perhaps the best use of my time right now would be a writing class! :)
yvonne