The overview website is here. Books are sold on Lulu.com Wayfarers is a curriculum guide that I'm fairly certain spans K-12.

I'm so happy to hear you say this! It's pretty much what I've been considering doing for next year, and now I've got confirmation that it can work! I've been seriously considering GGC, but didn't want to add another workbook. Do you use an of the supplemental materials, or just the Teacher's Guide? (maps, timeline, audio)

The Wayfarers Guide is the curriculum guide by the same publisher. I've just started looking at Quark (we want to use it next year) so I could be wrong here, but I thought I saw EM scheduled in a sample of the notebooking pages for Quark Chronicles.

We started out with Song School Latin and Latin for Children. It was after that I discovered ISL. FWIW, A friend of mine, who is a Medieval scholar, took a cursory look at both and said that ISL teaches the grammar one encounters in actual Latin texts. He highly recommended we do Lingua Latina next. I bought the books, but we haven't started yet. The publisher's site has more information on Lingua Latina than you can get at Amazon: http://focusbookstore.com/PartI-familiaromana.aspx

I'm going to second the I Speak Latin suggestion. It's a fabulous program.

The day after Thanksgiving - Absolutely! We had cherry cheesecake to go with the chocolate and blueberry pies. Sadly, we didn't have any pumpkin!

There's a new Jan Brett Unit Study at Build Your Library that looks good, as well as a Winter holidays study.

Good question. My understanding is that studying Latin along with a Romance language will make learning subsequent Romance languages a whole lot easier. (For the most part the base word stays the same, it's just the ending that changes with the language. Latin teaches the basic structure.) So if you learn, for instance French along with Latin, you can pick up Spanish of Italian well enough to read in a very short time. I'm not sure if it would help nearly as much if you already speak two Romance languages, though. Perhaps for more formal or academic grammar? My oldest is studying Latin and Greek. My younger kids have wanted to follow along, but I've found that just learning the Greek alphabet is a challenge.

When I teach harmony to my violin/viola students, I start with pieces they know well and I play a harmony that's the same rhythmically. When they can hold their own, I make it more complicated. Next step is to teach rounds. I've found that with beginning students, I can usually only change one thing at at time - so pitch OR rhythm, not both. My mom works with a childrens' choir at her church and does something similar. Her harmony parts are usually quite simple to start, with only a few of the strongest singers on it - or an adult if necessary. Something to keep in mind about vocal range is that childrens' voices are usually quite a bit higher than adults. The tendency is to pitch songs too low for kids.

We did Noeo Chem 1 a couple of years ago - my kids have retained quite a bit of it (1st and 3rd grade). There is a lot of reading but also a lot of hands-on experiments. They hated doing the notebooking, so we only did it once a week or so. I concentrated on the experiments and discussion. We did Physics 2 after that and we're now doing Bio 2. They participated in a science fair last year and were well-prepared. If I can swing the time commitment, I want to use Chem 1 again with my younger ones. (It's not set up to do level 1 at the same time as level 2, but I may try it anyway.)

We're in the middle of the Artemis Fowl series right now. Recently we have enjoyed: A Snicker of Magic Savvy (Ingrid Law) Bell Bandit (Jacqueline Davies; Lemonade Wars characters) White Giraffe and Dolphin Song (Lauren St. John, I think. There are two more books in the series, that our library doesn't have on audio) Flush, Chomp, Hoot, Scat (Carl Hiaason; different narrators for each, some are better than others) How to Eat Fried Worms (narrated by Jay O. Sanders - LOVE his voice!)

We did the Shark unit study last Spring. Over teh 3 weeks it took us at least 2 hrs a day to read, do the copywork, and work on whatever the project was that week. I bought the Kindergarten curriculum for my 5 year old this year. When we actually DO the work, it takes about the same amount of time, but she hasn't been into the read-alouds so far, which means we spend far less time.

We are doing something similar. I tried Logic of English last year, got overwhelmed and pared down to just the phonograms and rules flashcards. We do copywork and dictation each week and I try to spotlight words that use whatever rule we're concentrating on at the time. I've got my oldest trying out Megawords this year as well, but she's balking at it a bit.

Have you looked at the guest hollow booklists? http://www.guesthollow.com/homeschool/curriculum.html#science I used the booklists as jumping off points for our science for a couple of years. You could follow the schedule for a full year's worth of science. There's also noeo: http://logospressonline.com/noeo I've used the first two levels and they're great .

Wrinkle in Time series by Madeleine L'Engle Mysterious Benedict Society by Trenton Lee Stewart (they start out as all orphans, though) Ginger Pye, Pinky Pye, etc. by Eleanor Estes (I see you've read the Moffats - these are just as good!)