Doing Some Tweaking

Bible-Proverbs---no
Hymn---no
Burgess Animal Adventures---haven't read from this yet
Christian Liberty Press Nature Readers---no
Parables from Nature---no
Burgess Bird Book---haven't read from this yet
James Herriott's Treasury for Children---yes
Apologia Zoology---yes
Apologia Astronomy---yes
Blue Fairy Tales Book---no
A Midsummer Night's Dream---haven't read from this yet
Just So Stories---yes
Aesop's Fables---yes
Children's Garden of Verses---haven't read from this yet
Paddle to the Sea---yes
Mary Poppins---haven't read from this yet
Our Island Story---no
The Mystery of History---yes
The Story of the World---no
Composer Study---yes
Artist Study/Picture Study---yes

To replace reading the proverbs each day we are reading from a vintage book I found at my mom's. It's called Best Stories From the Best Book c. MCM (1900) It's definitely not watered down! Instead of a hymn right now we're going to focus on songs to learn with our church's youth choir. My friend Marla suggested downloading Our Island Story from librovox.com and listening to it as we do other things throughout the day. Mystery of History is much better than The Story of the World in my opinion. There is no need to make myself crazy and try to do both so one must go and SOTW-you are it. As for the rest of the roster that didn't make the cut we'll pick up here and there.

We are going to focus on these things:
Beyond FIAR- Starting with Thomas Edison we'll begin our FIAR lessons and I'll just ask for help on the FIAR boards. :)
Apologia Zoology - Ethan enjoys this. It's reading, narration, notebooking, and experiments and projects complete with an insect collection.
Apologia Astronomy-Eli and Rick are doing these lessons together. On the horizon is a model of the solar system.
Reading Rescue 1-2-3-This is a wonderful resource for helping children increase their fluency and comprehension in reading. I'm using the suggestions for both boys and we are using stories that interest each one individually.
We are almost finished with the Best Stories from the Best Book and when that is done I do believe we'll just read from Egermeier's Bible Story Book. I found a chart which links those stories with Mystery of History lessons.
Mystery of History-This is so amazing. I love the way the author weaves secular world history in with biblical world history.
So, we have: Reading, Science, History covered and our dear FIAR lessons provide more of that plus language arts.
Our art and music is covered with picture study/artist study and composer study and we can always throw in some piano or guitar or drum lessons!

Ahhh... feeling much more balanced!