Homeschool has been going well, but we have really been in a little bit of a rut.  I have decided to mix things up a little.  The basic things we are doing will not change.  Those things include Teaching Textbooks Math, Sonlight Literature and History, Rosetta Stone Spanish, and Apologia Science by Jay L. Wile.  They are just as awesome as ever and we are enjoying them very much.  In addition, we are really enjoying the Fallacy Detective book.  We will continue to do some of the small stuff like Lyrical Life Science and current events, Christian will finish his last year of cursive work and Kelly will continue with Teaching Terrific Writing, but virtually everything else will change.  I have purchased a course on world views titled Understanding the Times and a course on grammar called Grammar Ace.  I really want to add an art class that Lorena, Kelly, and Christian can take together.  Hopefully it will be something like pottery or painting.

We are planning to read Understanding the Times together as a family.  We love that sort of thing.  The program sounds pretty comprehensive and interesting so this could be a super project for us.  As for the Grammar Ace, I believe the kids have a fairly strong grammar base, but I want to make sure everything gets well established in their mind.  Grammar Ace is designed for that.  We should be able to finish it between now and the end of the year both as a refresher course and a way to prepare for standardized testing.