We've completed 2 weeks of our second term, and things seem to be going well.  The new history is working out well!  Funny, both AO and MA cover US History chronologically, using a textbook.  Charlotte Mason advocates choosing a time period and finding great literature to study it.  Kids fill in dates and facts on a timeline to keep events in relative order.  I plan on taking this approach with ds#1 during the next two years transition from Eggleston to Bennett.  I like doing US History chronologically, probably because it is so brief compared to world history.

I did had a math wake-up call, though.  Ds#1 was doing his MUS, finding the area of a trapezoid, when I became acutely aware that he was following the example without having any idea why he was taking the steps he did.  I spent one week on area, another on averages using living math approaches.  Not only has ds#1 gotten an idea of what he's doing, and remembers it better, he has taken a great interest in the many math-for-fun books I have lying about (I am teaching a Math for Fun class for our co-op, so I have these books piled in the kitchen.)  Time to rethink math.  I've scheduled in living math time for all my boys.  I'm going to look into the free MEP program to see if it integrates with math reading and play better than MUS.