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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
My son got totally into Roman history and culture

Books about weaponry

Historical fiction

Horrible Histories

Fantastic BBC videos and games (Rome a big part of British curriculum)

Learning Latin 2/N
My daughter got into evolution, which her school had tiptoed around

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
As I think of our favorite books, videos, activities I will link in this thread 4/N

These are wonderfully gross and full of terrible jokes

amazon.com/Horrible-Histo…
These are terrific for reading aloud

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-…
Math comic books for elementary school

This is NOT dumbed down

This company has great books and online activities to train for math Olympiads
beastacademy.com/books
6/N
A sample of the terrific content at BBC 7/N

bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topic…
Math taught thru adventures of 5-year-old math professor

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
Big History

This is sooooo well done

There are terrific books to go along with the online content

bighistoryproject.com/chapters/1#

9/N
Challenging online math problems, middle school & up

Level adapts to kid

artofproblemsolving.com/alcumus

10/N
These short courses teach freewriting

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
Daughter was fascinated by the Blitz

(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
When exhausted one favorite tactic was to point them to a YouTube playlist I made and let them rip

Unlimited screen time while watching from the list

Crash Course History is awesome



13/N
BBC produced 5 seasons of Horrible Histories.

A few of these episodes are on YouTube

but they’re all available on BBC Studios which is an option on Hulu (and maybe other streaming services)

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