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A Week in Tapestry of Grace

by razorbackmama

I thought I'd share what a week looks like for us for history.

Tapestry of Grace recommends a Monday-Friday week. I've also heard of some families doing Friday-Thursday so that the children can read over the weekend. At this point in our school, we have found it best to just be flexible, so we don't have a set length of how long we spend on a TOG Week. Sometimes it only takes us 3 days to get through the material, and other times it takes us 7 days. It varies. It's a bonus when I can plan a week Monday-Friday, but sometimes we'll finish things up the next Monday or Tuesday and then go ahead and start the next Week in TOG.

I try to read the Teacher's Notes over the weekend prior to starting a new Week. This past week we did Week 15 in Year 1, which is The Promised Land: Conquest and Settlement.

Day 1:

I literally copied this from the Student Threads from the yellow Overview section. I do not include the people/vocabulary words because I learned early on this year that our reading assignments may or may not cover those people/vocabulary words, and I got tired of dealing with that. So I gave up LOL.

I read this aloud off the board.

Then we moved on to geography. I used the geography assignment from the Student Assignment Pages. I try to do the geography assignments earlier in the week so that as we read, my children already have a vague familiarity with the locations. This also allows us to refer back to any maps that we have worked on.

I broke down and bought this earlier in the year:

It is a rhetoric level resource, but IMO it's a necessary one for even LG. I wish they would list it as such. My UG child filled out his map according to the assignment:

while I helped my LG students fill out theirs. Usually I print out the teacher's map from the MapAids CD, but this week's teacher's map is wrong (I have been told they have corrected CDs available, but I don't have one), so this week I printed out maps for them and then filled it out for them as we all did it together. (Too much writing.)

Then we did a color-coded map for the tribes of Israel:

There is an example map in the Teacher's Notes, but no black-line map, so I had to make my own. I have Uncle Josh's outline map book, so I copied an Ancient Israel map and drew in the tribal boundaries with Sharpie and then copied them all for my dc. We did all of this together, using the map from the Teacher's Notes as a guide.

(Come to find out there is a tribal map on the MapAids CD for week *16*. I will have to mark that in my IG for week 15 so I know to look there next time around!)

Day 2:
Read from

TOG recommends another child's Bible, but I hated it and started using this one instead.

Day 3:
Read from

and put together a salt map of Israel (instructions are in Old Testment Days):

They will paint it next week after it dries (this is included in the TOG assignments).

There were a few other hands-on activities we could have done, but I'm not a very "hands-on" mom, so my kids thought I was awesome for letting them do this.