For history, you'll want to make sure you devote adequate time to how the Freemasons and the Rosicrucians were responsible for WWI.

Also, due attention to the role of the Knights Templar in the American Civil War.

I was homeschooled. If the 9 year old likes reading books I'd recommend having less structure and more just reading a lot of books. If they're interested in things, you can also let them pick a decent portion of the books to read themselves, which is also less work for you. Historical fiction is great for that age. For math you might consider this an opportunity to do stuff that's not exactly on the normal curriculum, which also causes less problems with rejoining after a year and realizing they learned half of the next year's material and missed half of the previous year. Something like: https://artofproblemsolving.com/store/item/moems-problemsolving

Impressed.

I was home schooled for about two years, as a 7-9 year old. The things that my parents couldn't really cover very well were sports and socialising, so I'd say try to not forget about those ...

I don't know if it's a complete curriculum, but I thought The Art Of Problem Solving textbook I looked at was excellent -- I think the only one I looked at was Algebra, back when that was relevant for my kids, but it covers pre-algebra on. The tone of the website is "this is for your little future Fields Medalist" but it's not horrifyingly extra advanced, just very clear and logical.

My friend homeschools her four kids (ages 7-12) and she recommends Blossom & Root and Torchlight for boxed curricula. She also likes the Secular, Eclectic, Academic Homeschoolers Facebook group.

The Art of Problem Solving has curriculum for younger kids - Beast Academy - which is very good. Also, Dreambox is good online practice which instills the concepts of math, not just brute force memorization.

You could lurk on the forums at the Well-Trained Mind for a bit. While there are some serious young-earth Creationists there, there also long-term homeschoolers who have a lot of useful information.

I haven't directly looked at AoPS's stuff, but they hire good people and I've only heard excellent things about what they do.

I haven't done homeschooling or been homeschooled, but I've thought about it and I'd agree with Unfoggetarian not to worry about structure. All the structure is necessary to get teaching done at a 25 to 1 student/teacher ratio, but it means a lot less with two kids learning at home. (I mean, there's all the discipline/functioning in big groups stuff that's a real issue, but it's not necessary to get the academic material across.)

We need structure because we're also working. I'm going to allot about two hours a day to homeschooling, and it needs to be in a chunk in the morning, so there are scheduling constraints.

But "go read one of these books for the next 3 hours" (if you have a kid who is happy to read for several hours) is both not very structured *and* doesn't require your time. All you have to do is set aside enough time to pick new books before they finish the old ones, and that can be done at any time.

One kid will read. The other will burn the house down.

I had an Art of Problem Solving tab open, and didn't realize they offered something other than online classes (or know about Beast Academy). Their math books look good! Thanks for that recommendation.

How to you look at a math website and say "this looks good"? I don't even know what you would look for. Errors in the times tables? Set theory? Cartoon animals are wearing pants?

I'm not sure there's any amount of structure that will prevent burning the house down... But at any rate, there's no reason why you should do the same thing for both kids, easy solutions that work for one get you halfway there!

I hear you can get asbestos easily now.

How to you look at a math website and say "this looks good"?

I find their sample books and see what they cover and how it's presented and also ask myself if I would feel ok explaining it based on what's there, without needing to consult another resource.

It turns out that I understand lots more stuff than I can explain, especially math, especially with children.

15: People will pay you to come take it out of their houses, even.

Field trip potential right there.

Here are some resources from the Coalition for Responsible Home Education - this is specifically a group run by former victims of bad, often Christianist, homeschooling who want to improve it.

Bryan Caplan, who strikes me as a good dad, has a guide here https://www.econlib.org/emergency-homeschooling-a-how-to-guide/

Wife is part of the team that develops math curriculum for her district so I asked her to comment on the blog but she won't. She said Beast is good, but if you want something that's structured progress through specific skills there are other things she might recommend.

Would love to hear about those.

The Calabat's school has done some of the Mystery Science curriculum. He likes it a lot.

I think we're leaning toward the online option, which sounds not great. Synchronous, scheduled time from 8:30-3:15; a mix of self-directed work and lectures. 35 kids to a classroom. We can switch back to the regular classroom in October if we elect this option. I think I'd rather pull him entirely and homeschool him except that we'd like to return mid-year if that's possible.

23- New York State put together a free math curriculum called Engage NY that includes lesson plans and worksheets for all grade levels in Math and ELA. I am only familiar with Math but it is quite good and rigorous. It is also possible to buy printed workbooks from Eureka Math (the content is identical to Engage NY) if that is preferred.

That looks really good. I found the workbooks and homework, but it looks like all the instructional material is video?

The online schedule which was just released for my kids' school seems completely unworkable for them or for me, so I'm suddenly looking into this myself. (The tail end of spring was a total disaster, but it was unplanned obviously and so I had hopes that things this fall would be structured in a way that might work better. Instead, they appear to be worse.) Anyway, this feels very timely and these resources all seem great.

Obviously 25 was her reply not me.
She says that there should be written lesson plans you can use to teach in person, like 10 page guides for each topic of how to present the concept, how to walk the kids through a sample problem, hands on activities.

She says:

Click on this:
https://www.engageny.org/resource/grade-4-mathematics-module-5

and download the first link (full module) for a unit on fractions including lesson plans, problem sets, and homework assignments.

Click on this:

Aha. I'd been looking on the Eureka Math site. Thank you.

16: Don't judge a book by what they cover.

I think your binding was done wrong.

I don't know if it's exactly what anyone is looking for, and apologies for the plug, but my quasi-employer has made a slice of our software free to home users during the pandemic. It's mathematics tutoring software for middle and high schoolers. I dunno if they'll be selling it to homeschoolers later, but maybe there's something useful there.

For the 9 year old, perhaps the Art of Problem Solving might help?

oops, Pause Endlessly beat me too it.