Being a sort of Eclectic/ Classical/CM/Semi Unschooler family (does that evoke an image or what?!), we are currently working on any number of activities.

School:

Pre-Algebra from any number of sources.  We use everything from SOS to those little homework practice books and worksheets online.  This is by far our most challenging subject.  My husband can explain a concept, and ds grasps it immediately, but I seem to speak some foreign language.

Science:  Apologia Physical Science which ds doesn't enjoy, being a biology sort of guy.  He's living in anticipation of Biology next year.

Grammar:  Once again, we are drawing on many sources, from Internet sources to Critical Thinking workbooks.  He uses grammar correctly in his writing consistantly, but show him a multiple choice question, and he's ready for a stroke.

Writing:  We recently did IEW's writing program, which I highly recommend.  Learning the dress-ups alone has totally changed his writing for the better.

History:  Beautiful Feet.  I love it, ds doesn't.  At his request, we made a brief foray into 20th Century history, but he sort of fizzled out, so we are back to this.  We supplement with historical fiction and biographies above and beyond what the program asks for to plump it up and make it more interesting.  I want to stretch it out with extra resources through the middle of ninth grade next year.

Language: We are dabbling in French and Latin.

We are also slowly reading through Lamb's Tales from Shakespeare together and want to start reading original plays when we are done.  For classics, we are reading Dickens A Tale of Two Cities, and studying vocabulary and themes from the book.  It might be a bit advanced, but he's a strong reader who's always looking for more vocabulary.

We are involved in a homeschool co-op, and there he is getting classes in Christian World View, Government (we are studying Constitutional Amendments), Art, Music, and Gym, with Hands-On Science thrown in ocassionally.

Extracurricular:

Our big commitment aside from school is 4-H.  Ds is involved in Teen Council, which helps with a lot of the programming, Teen Ambassadors, which is sort of the public face of 4-H in our county, Teen Exchange, which is a two year program involving fundraisers and trips back and forth with another county somewhere in the US. This exchange is with a county in TN.   He also belongs to a regular club called Wild Things.

Just some examples of activities Ds has participated in in the last year :  we hosted an exchange 4-Her from TN, he helped teach a demonstration workshop, he went to Cornell University for a weekend for career explorations, he showed his sheep and goats at the county fair, was a teen manager in the snack bar, he participated in vet science, was involved with cooking science, was a group leader for pre-teen fun day, trained and showed his dog, and the list could go on ad infinitum.  Needless to say, we are very busy.

I hope this gives you a little peek into our activities.  Keep an eye out here for changes and updates!