I'm really undecided what to use for my 5th grader for school this year. Right now she is doing TT(almost done with 4 and then do 5), LOF Fractions, MindBenders, IEW, HWT Cursive, Sequential Spelling, Trail Guide to US Geography, and MBTP. I love the MBTP Lit units so I'm thinking of sticking with those and then drop the rest of it. I only bought one unit to try and I like it okay but I don't like how it jumps around.
My dd has always been homeschooled but in past years what we mostly did was workbook stuff with some FIAR thrown in there. I read WTM this summer and would like to follow a more classical approach but I'm not sure where to start with her. She is probably going to public middle school next year so I may just have her at home one more year. She hasn't done much with dictation or narration before. I'd also maybe like to add something to learn to diagram a sentence. She gets LA stuff from MBTP so I'd like to find something that just does diagramming.
I have SOTW 1 and the Activity Guide and was thinking of doing that with dd and my 6 yo twins except I just found out that 6th graders at our middle school take Ancient History so dd would be doing that 2 years in a row if we do that. My 12 yo is a 7th grader at the ps this year and taking Medeival History but in 3.5 weeks they have barely done anything. She's had one 5 question quiz and a "project" that consisted of drawing several things in colored pencils and labeling them. The only reading seems to be from the textbook so I'd imagine the 6th grade is similar so I don't know if it would matter if dd had to do Ancients 2 years in a row. I also have Core 5 I bought from a friend who was done with it. It looks very challenging though and it might be a stretch for my 10 yo but I could take it slow and if we don't get through the whole thing that would be okay. Or I could just stick with MBTP and buy the rest of the units. We are doing 8-10 though and I think I should have gotten 9-11 because it's pretty easy for dd. She's not gifted and I think since it is supposedly for gifted kids that I ordered lower than I might have otherwise.
I've probably spent way too much time agonizing over this and just need to pick something and stick with it. I've been reading here for the past month or so and gotten a lot of great ideas. It was because of reading here I bought SOTW 1. I will definitely use it with my 6 yo twins and we've read a little bit from it but they are finishing up MFW K so I thought I'd wait on it until they are done with that.