I homeschooled my son two years (grades 7 & 8) & my daughter one year (grade 7)
The joy is in letting them go down rabbit holes
My advice: do the minimum the school requires
spend the found time on topic(s) they pick
Then find cool stuff 1/N
Books about weaponry
Historical fiction
Horrible Histories
Fantastic BBC videos and games (Rome a big part of British curriculum)
Learning Latin 2/N
Biographies of scientists
Big History, from Big Bang through present (books, videos)
Visiting museums (many have virtual visits)
Museum of Natural History has awesome app that turns your face Neanderthal
3/N
These are wonderfully gross and full of terrible jokes
amazon.com/Horrible-Histo…
You can also buy MP3s of someone else reading them aloud
Christian perspective creeps in which makes opportunity for discussion
5/N
welltrainedmind.com/landing/story-…
This is NOT dumbed down
This company has great books and online activities to train for math Olympiads
beastacademy.com/books
6/N
The set of books goes from basic addition through linear algebra
They’re really good
Weird and engaging
(if you are local I have a bunch of these I’m happy to give a new home)
lifeoffred.uniquemath.com
8/N
This is sooooo well done
There are terrific books to go along with the online content
bighistoryproject.com/chapters/1#
9/N
Level adapts to kid
artofproblemsolving.com/alcumus
10/N
Best part: someone else reads & responds to your kids’ stuff so you don’t make them cry by nitpicking their grammar
They also have book clubs: kids read a book a month & respond to writing prompts
store.bravewriter.com
11/N
(learning about ppl hiding in houses from an existential threat could be fun or terrible depending on your perspective)
So many fantastic movies and books about WWII
12/N
horrible-histories.fandom.com/wiki/Blitz