my 3-year old and 8-year old (second grade) are doing Renaissance and Reformation this year! are you giving your children a "Classical Education?" which state are you in?
We use the K12 curriculum (www.k12.com)...it's not, strictly thinking, what I'd think of as classical education but it is based on a "core knowledge" philosophy and includes elements from THE WELL-TRAINED MIND. (Susan Wise Bauer wrote some of the history...) We love the curriculum. The children listen in on each other's history and the cross-related art lessons so my 5-year-old can go on at some length about Michelangelo, among other things :). What are you using for your lessons? I really regret that my older children were not exposed to history, art appreciation, etc., at young ages.
My oldest, a HS honor student, has commented several times that her younger siblings are being exposed to concepts at an early age that she didn't learn about until high school, unless she happened to read about it in books we gave her. (I consider her "afterschooled" in the sense of the materials we gave her outside school hours, grin.) As we became increasingly dissatisfied with her education, we "graduated" from public to private school with #2, then homeschooling with #3 and #4, and next year #2 will join us at home.
We are in So. CA...and you?
Best wishes --