Planning, again

I've been planning and planning until my head is spinning and history is yet again trying to take over the curriculum....so I just let it all go. What we are doing at present is slowly reading through the Core Knowledge sequence of books (yes, starting with What your Kindergartner Needs to Know! You should hear the groans, but everyone listens avidly and are oh so proud of knowing all the answers!) and creatively strewing books about on the topic of the day.
In September I plan to start a serious study of Latin again using Latina Christiana, reviewing book I first and hopefully moving on to book II before the year is out. This was the surprise winner from last year which I started mostly because I had bought the video lessons and figured I better use them. The discipline of this type of Latin instruction trickled down to all our other activities. I, of course tried to tweak this and added too much other stuff (Minimus, Our Roman Roots, and those new workbooks from CHC). I will try very hard not to do that again.
Other than that, I want the boys to be familiar with Kipling, Dickens, and Stevenson so they will know what GKC is talking about when they read his thought on these authors when they are older (high school?)and have a good idea of the flow of history. That's it. Those are the goals. Now we will see what happens!