This thread is right up my ally.  My 5-year-old is kindergarten age this fall, is reading on a 4th grade level.  My husband asked me, "So what's next for Peter?"  I have taken that question to heart and I struggle a little with it.  I'm a homeschool graduate and have always planned on homeschooling him, so the level of officialness with his age is exciting, but also a little intimidating because up to now we have always done "school" in a fun, joyful way, never as work, but always as a game.  He has learned so much that way, and I want to keep it that way.  But there are some skills that you have to work for, like writing, and while I want it to be fun for him, I think he's old enough to have required tasks.

For writing in the creative sense, I have let him start his own blog.  (private of course!)  He is writing a story about an airplane on it right now, but I will also scan in his artwork and things like that to make a nice little record.  At the end of the year, we'll print it out and he'll have a keep-sake book.

For penmanship, I finally decided to go with this program:  http://teachmejoy.com/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=2.  We are going to start with cursive.  Handwriting is something we're starting from scratch this year.

For math, we're doing math-u-see.

For science, aside from all the books we check out from the library, we're having fun with this kit:  http://www.amazon.com/Be-Amazing-Toys-Big-Science/dp/B0034N7OZO

We are focusing on American history this year with help from the internet and library books.

We are enrolling him in the local community children's choir.  Oddly enough, he's very excited to stand in a line with the other kids on stage.

I've decided to really focus in on music this year for all of my kids.  Before now, I have focused on reading because I knew that knowing how to read would open up so many doors for them in all the other learning areas.  I've dabbled in music until now, but I'm going to really focus on it this year, maybe even to the neglect of other subjects because I know that having a solid foundation in music will likewise help with the other subjects.  Besides, we read a lot of books from the library on a variety of subjects, so they are still learning in those areas.  I know that learning a foreign language is important, but it's an area that is really intimidating to me.  I really struggled with my foreign language classes in college. However, music is like a foreign language in many ways, so maybe I get brownie points for that.

I can't wait to see what other moms have to say about this, because I'm still in the research phase for answering this question myself.  I've got a reading 5-year-old.  Now what?!?

Thank you everyone for your great comments.  I've been looking into this and found an excellent blog post with a video on this subject by a Doman mommy that may be of interest:

http://grhomeschooling.blogspot.com/2012/06/how-to-teach-your-baby-to-swim-6-12.html

Two ideas.

Primrose oil.  My midwife just uses the gel capsules from Wal-Mart.  She pierced it, and then put it under the rim of my cervix.  Then you lay on your side for an hour.  Wear a pad, because some of it will leak out.  I know some people take PO orally, and other people just put it in their vagina overnight, but not pierced or as specifically placed.

Stairs.  Walk up and down the stairs a couple of times, so that you have a contraction.  Set a timer for five minutes.  In exactly five minutes, do it again, so that you have a contraction.  Repeat for an hour or two.  It can be hard work, but what it does is, by having such precise contractions from the exercise, it can fool your body into thinking that you're in labor and get things started.

Neither of these ideas will work unless your body is ready for labor anyway.  It's not inducing labor as much as nudging it.  I have used both of these techniques with success.  Good luck!

I mostly like to school year-round.  However, I take school breaks for certain events, such as a new baby, which happens to be due June 2nd.  We'll be doing school again before September.  Another school break is the entire Christmas season, not just two weeks.

In my studio, I have found that colors are most helpful is they are used interactively.  For example, I made my own little color code, printed off an insert to go behind the piano keys, and then I have the children color the notes themselves in their books using crayons.  It really helps them internalize it.  You can also integrate this into any music curriculum, so whether they use Bastian or Thompson, or whatever, they can color the notes to help them out.  Most of my younger students loved it at first, and after a few months they only colored the tricky notes in the song, and then they left it off altogether.  It takes a little more effort upfront, but the results were worth it. I wrote a blog post about it, with the printouts I made, here:  http://www.teaching-children-music.com/2011/02/using-color-to-teach-music.html

For a cheaper version if you're willing to put in a little leg-work, Musescore.org has a free program (it's open source), and one of the things that you can do is make a song and then go to "plugins" in the file menu, and click "color notes".  These colors are the same as the boomwhackers.  With a little bit of digging on musescore's site, I was able to figure out how to make my own plug-in with custom colors to match my own color scheme.  That may be more work than you want to do, but I just thought I'd throw that option out there because I've had a lot of fun with it.

Try http://musescore.org/

It's open source, which means that it's totally free, and it is of comparable quality to Finale.  There are video tutorials to get you started, and several languages to choose from.  I personally love Musescore.

  This is a tough call to make.  It's not like teaching Spanish, where Spanish is mostly the same in Spanish speaking countries, or math, that is concrete all across the board.  You have a world audience to address, and music isn't a one-size-fits-all.  Yikes!  I guess the ultimate question to ask is, "Who is my target audience?"  Which countries have been your primary customers, and what do they want?  I'm from the United States, and if 95% of my customers were from the States, I would gear it for them.  The baby signing time videos teach American sign language, without regard to Russian, Armenian, or Japanese sign language.  There are probably Russians who don't buy it because they don't want to teach American sign language to their kids.  Rachel Coleman is okay with that, and the Russians aren't offended that she didn't think to include them.

I don't think you can please everyone on this issue.  Decide who your target audience is and cater LM to them.  If there is enough demand, and if there is a market for it, make two or more different versions.  This sounds less like a philosophical decision and more like a business decision.  Let the money do the talking.
Sorry if that sounded cold.  I'm not trying to be. 

You already know this, but I'll vote anyway.  Movable Do.  I'm in the United States.  I don't have that strong of an opinion on it, I think that both have merit.  In Aural skills in college, we did movable do for 3 semesters and fixed do the fourth.  The switch was hard, but it gave me an appreciation for both.  I'm teaching my children movable do.

Great job, mom!  For what it's worth, I started formal piano lessons on a pathetic little keyboard that had 1/3 size keys.  I actually did very well on it and the transition was easy for me.

This is great!  I have actually spent a lot of time on your website and I have been very impressed.  My son will be joining this competition, and maybe my two siblings that are still young enough.  http://musescore.org/ has a fantastic free music notation program that may be of interest for families with budding composers.

My husband was a missionary in Mexico and I recently got him to start reading Spanish children's books from the library.  It's not much, but 5 minutes a day will help.  Where I live in the United States, many of our movies have a Spanish soundtrack, so we have started watching movies in Spanish.  Another idea is to find a bi-lingual child who lives in your neighborhood and hire them to play with your child in Spanish or whatever their other language is.  A child who is too young to babysit is often eager to earn money, and you can pay them less besides.  It's a win-win situation.  Since you will be there the whole time, all they have to do is play with your children, or read to them, and you don't have to worry about safety.

We bought the mini-glider from Timberdoodle, and my son, now three, loves it!  My review of the product is the first one posted on their site.  He loves his bike and has made great strides with it recently, at least until the snow came.

http://www.timberdoodle.com/MiniGlider_Bicycle_p/176mini.htm

I'm a big fan of natural birth.  Anything else is, well, unnatural.  I think God knew what he was doing when he designed womens bodies.

Oh yes, he often asks me to get out my violin and play with him.  I don't think that it is unhealthy for him to be protective of his violin.  In our home, the policy is, share the family toys, and sharing your own personal toys is optional.  The violin is his, and he loves it.  I am reluctant to share my violin, my husband doesn't share his work computer, and Peter doesn't want to share his violin.  That's okay with me, he is actually very good at sharing in general.