Combining TOG and AO

[jg_puppy]

I am using Sotw with my kids right now, but I am starting to think ahead. We have read a few books from AO Year 1 and love them. I would like to include more AO selections. I don't have TOG, but I have looked at the samples and I love the teacher notes that are in TOG units. I think that I would like to have the teacher notes from TOG when they are in jr high and high school. I would also like for them to read a lot of the Ambleside books. Am I totally crazy for wanting to combine both of these curriculums? Has anyone used TOG and added in literature from Ambleside? Was it easy to figure out where to add the books?

Thanks.
Jan

[siloam]

I am using Sotw with my kids right now, but I am starting to think ahead. We have read a few books from AO Year 1 and love them. I would like to include more AO selections. I don't have TOG, but I have looked at the samples and I love the teacher notes that are in TOG units. I think that I would like to have the teacher notes from TOG when they are in jr high and high school. I would also like for them to read a lot of the Ambleside books. Am I totally crazy for wanting to combine both of these curriculums? Has anyone used TOG and added in literature from Ambleside? Was it easy to figure out where to add the books?

Thanks.
Jan

Jan,

My oldest is a voracious reader, and has no problem reading TOG lit and other misc. stuff (SL, WP or....). If you have a child who can't keep up with that reading level, then you would just substitute the Literature in TOG. You wouldn't have worksheets for it, but I don't see that as a big deal.

By the way TOG does schedule quite a few of the same resources (Guerber, Classics, Marshall). You might end up doing less substituting than you think.

Heather

[jg_puppy]

Jan,

By the way TOG does schedule quite a few of the same resources (Guerber, Classics, Marshall). You might end up doing less substituting than you think.

Heather

Thank you. That is a very good to know.

Jan

[gardenschooler]

We're doing a good bit of this because AO has so many books on it that I just love. Plenty of them are listed in the TOG alternate/extra list, too, making it easy to see where to add them. We're not reading all of the AO books, just my favorites.

[Melissa in CA]

We're doing a good bit of this because AO has so many books on it that I just love. Plenty of them are listed in the TOG alternate/extra list, too, making it easy to see where to add them. We're not reading all of the AO books, just my favorites.

I would love to know what some of your favorites are! Care to share a few of the tops? :D

Now that I am feeling thoroughly comfortable with my TOG schedule, I am peeping over into the Alternate list from time to time. :eek:

Something I promised myself I would not do...

:lol: