How do you manage TOG and Science???

[Brenda in FL]

This fall will be my first venture into TOG. I got my binders and filling them with redesigned year 1. And I feel this will be overwhelming!! :(

I realize that I will have to pick and choose activities and assignments from TOG but i still don't see how I can do that and science - any advice?? Please??

One more question - what grades/ages are considered upper grammar? And is dialectic 5-8 grades? I couldn't find this info online or in materials I picked up at convention.

Thanks!

[Monkey Island Academy]

I am just setting up my binders with TOG year 1 redesign so I have not practical experience for you on "getting it all done", but here is a link to info regarding how TOG views the "ages and stages" of your children.

http://www.tapestryofgrace.com/tog_fast/Stages/stages.htm

HTH

Michelle J

[Karenciavo]

Once you get into a groove it won't be too bad. TOG took us about 1 hour a day when my older boys were grammar and dialectic, now it takes my rhetoric son at least 1.5 hours a day in addition to 1 hour for AP Biology.

[Baseballmom]

UG would be 3-6 and Dialectic would be 6-9. The reason they overlap is because each child is different. So, some maybe ready even earlier or later than the recommended ages. You can even jump between the levels, if you feel like you want them to read a certain book or not read another book. That is one reason why I love TOG

[MelissaMinNC]

We do science twice a week for 30-45 minutes. Times for TOG and science run longer if we're doing a project of some kind, which I don't do every class, or even every week.

My dd is LG, I think UG is approx grades 3-6, and dialectic is approximately grades 6-9. You decide based on your individual child's needs and abilities. Listening to Marcia's workshop "Teaching with Tapestry" on cd really helped understand what to be looking for when trying to decide levels. (Although, I knew dd would be LG, I was thinking about the future.)

I am in Unit 3 of Y1. Up till this unit, I had planned just 2 or 3 weeks ahead, and it worked fine (and I think it was what I needed to do to get a handle on it all). But before starting unit 3, I sat down and planned out the whole unit. I used Jessica at Trivium Academy's Tapestry planning sheet, and I realized after I filled out maybe 3 in a row, that I could see a rhythm and an order. The more I did, the more sense it made and the easier it got. I don't know if that would be helpful to you or not - it's perfectly ok (great!) to take it in smaller chunks, even just a week at a time.

Just remember to do a little bit...and add in more as you go on, if you can and want to. Don't try to do it all and then get overwhelmed. I usually go through my weekly overview pages (in page protectors) with a marker and check off every box that I would do in a perfect world with nothing else on our plates. Then I walk away and come back to it a while later; I go back through a second time and check off what I think I'll actually be able to do, erasing the rest of the checks. And telling myself we will cover this again in 4 years. ;)

I hope this helps, sorry so long,
Melissa

[LisaNY]

I am using TOG for history and PH Science Explorer for science this year, and this is the first year that science is getting done consistently. PH has really streamlined our daily science lessons, and we have actually found our routine.
AND - my dd. is actually learning something. YAY!

[Lisawa]

This fall will be my first venture into TOG. I got my binders and filling them with redesigned year 1. And I feel this will be overwhelming!! :(

I realize that I will have to pick and choose activities and assignments from TOG but i still don't see how I can do that and science - any advice?? Please??

One more question - what grades/ages are considered upper grammar? And is dialectic 5-8 grades? I couldn't find this info online or in materials I picked up at convention.

Thanks!

Its possible... really it is...:) Looking at the guide and just its size alone can throw me off still. Like Karen said below... once you find your way, it wont be so bad....

My suggestion is to not do to much the first few weeks... get used to the feel of you driving the guide, not it driving you. Nothing in it is set in stone. :) Grace is a biggy in the begining.... alow for grace.

TOG is different. Its not just checking things off and doing the next thing... its a full unit of study ready for you to take control and use it as you see fit.