DS4.5 is currently in public preschool for 3hrs a day and should go to K in the fall that is also just a half day program. We wanted him in preschool setting right now for the social aspect of it but we are seriously considering homeschooling him at least K and 1st. K isn't even mandatory in IL so we could also just have fun for a year and forget all about school. My plan is if we do homeschool, we might continue with the schedule he was used to at school, just do it in our home. He absorbs a huge amount of information from everything around him so I don't really even feel the need to teach him much at this point. I never really taught him anything and he just picked it up (counting, alphabet, simple addition and subtraction, all kinds of science problems, etc.) so unschooling might actually be a great way for us to go.
Now, as for the younger sibling, our younger son is turning 3 in March and has high functioning autism but has in some areas academic knowledge beyond of what the older one knows. He's perfectly happy playing spelling games on my Android and Kindle but he will always be around when / if we homeschool the older one so if he feels like tagging along, we'll just do the same work with both (minus what would be too much challenge for the stubborn autistic part of him). There are actually times when the younger one does things that the older one can't do yet and they take turns in learning from each other (while staying at least 5 feet away because that's about as much closeness as they can tolerate! lol)
