I've used both "Art With A Purpose" and "Draw Write Now" and enjoyed them, though they're both quite different programs. Art With A Purpose is a more typical, overarching art curriculum, that does multiple types of art projects, in a convenient format, with gradual increases in complexity. Draw Write Now doesn't really build on itself, but IMHO is an enjoyable guide to drawing. (Also, while Art With A Purpose requires some limited occasional handholding and assembly of supplies, DWN is something to shove towards a child and say, "Pick a couple pages to do, and let me know when you are finished.")

I thought Kraken Latin was very neat, but a brief look at it made me feel it would be better as a follow-on to an elementary school program. It could be done, but the initial chapters, at least, would require a steep learning curve/backfilling to bring the student up to speed.

"Unwritten Rules of Social Relationships" by Temple Grandin and Sean Barron is an interesting broad picture look at things.

This is absolutely not a full curriculum, but I quite liked David Eugene Smith's "Number Stories of Long Ago", and thought it would be a fun adjunct for a kid somewhere in the 4th - 6th grade. Starts with the history of counting, the numeral systems, then different ways of handling basic operations, then fractions. The back section is full of a variety of tricky math puzzles, some of which could stump a much more advanced student. There's a copy on archive.org, and if you enjoy it, a physical copy is quite cheap on the used market. https://archive.org/details/numberstoriesofl00smit_0/mode/2up

Hits: Draw Write Now. I picked up a copy of Book 6 from a thrift store, because I cannot pass up cheap curricula. No plans to actually make use of it. But DS6 found it and spontaneously did several of the lessons, including the copywork. I'm going to have to order the rest - a curricula that gets a student to do the work on his own is a treasure. Tales from Spenser; Chosen from the Faerie Queene. I'm not sure why I chose this as bedtime reading, but goodness gracious, everyone in the four to eight year old set were fascinated by it. Sure, this is a kid's version, but it's a kid's version from the nineteenth century, and the vocab was a real workout. Misses: Beast Academy. DS10 finished Singapore Math 5 at home, and is in Dimensions 6 at a private classical school. We thought we'd try BA5 as an additional supplement, but it's too hard for him. Not sure if we should backtrack to BA4 or switch to something else entirely. Or just not bother doing anything until summer, because the point of sending him to that school was so we could be lazier at home.

I just want to second this -- the OT we saw pointed out that one of the reasons my second grader was writing at a pre-school level was because he was very weak and easily tired. Exercise -- with the OT, and at home -- moved him from diagnosable as dysgraphic to bad, but normal levels of bad. (And a lot of his remaining trouble was letter formation, which was fixed when we started homeschooling, taught him cursive, and mandated a lot of copywork.) One other thing you might want to look at is fountain pens, which are easier than ballpoint to write with and help encourage good habits -- not pressing too hard on the paper, for example.

The first was entirely eclectic, but for the second and third got Teach Your Child To Read In 100 Easy Lessons. I did supplement with random stuff I had around the hours (the old British Key Words series, McGuffey's Primer & First Reader), but TYCTR100EL did the bulk of the work (though I never used its writing component). Both children I used it with wrote "fan fiction" -- their own TYCTR100EL formatted lessons -- which I found hilarious.

I will add that my 3rd & 5th grade kids really liked it. Despite having been the one to check it out of the library, I was the third to read it. Oops. I'm more Victorian than most, though, so definitely YMMV. Oh, well, giving them the perception of classics as the place to get transgressive material does seem like it has advantages.

If he is interested in Marine Engineering, the Webb Institute. It's exceedingly difficult to get in (average SAT ~1480), tiny (~100 students), and also offers free tuition. Another small, extremely competitive school is the Franklin W Olin College of Engineering. It's bigger (400 students), and offers more usual engineering majors, as well as design-your-own programs.

NAQT allows homeschool co-ops and homeschool families to participate in their Middle and High School trivia competitions, including (if qualified by tournament performance) the national school and individual championships.

I thought Wiliams's was pretty good but gosh, it was pretty inappropriate as well. For example, the butt-kissing scene in The Miller's Tale shows up. In fairness, an appropriate version of Chaucer would have to leave out a lot of the stories.

Half-contrary to some of the other folks, I think Life of Fred is a lot of fun, very engaging, and make a good supplement. Some of the explanations are inspired. My kid picked them up and read them for fun, and an exceedingly gifted friend's daughter used -- and really enjoyed -- the program. But my impression is that they've not got *nearly* enough practice to be the main program for a more average child, and it's too easy for a lazy child (by which I mean, all of them), to just look up the answers. Life of Fred is also pretty wordy, which can be an advantage for some, but if a child is a weak reader, they'll be spending too much time floundering. If you feel your kids would like it, I would try LoF as something like a story-time math supplement, but would look at an alternate program as your spine. To throw out a few examples: Study Time Arithmetic, a slow-moving Amish spiral math program for grades 3-8. Usually it is a follow on to the similar Schoolaid Math (grades 1-2). Chapters are themed, the word problems are pretty good, and the math is extremely straightforward and practical in nature. Rod and Staff Arithmetic, a mastery-based Amish math program. If the child needs a lot of repetition to grasp a concept, R&S will provide that. Singapore Math US Ed (or one of the others, there are many) - very popular on these boards. Mastery based. Less wordy. Lots of supplemental materials to provide extra (or more advanced) practice. Beast Academy - great for the extremely talented (95th percentile, say the authors, though less brilliant can make use of it, sometimes as a supplement a grade level behind.) BA is also story-based: the textbook is a comic book. Not enough repetition for slower students, IMHO.

My kids are mostly younger than yours, but they were really excited by a set of disposable fountain pens with different color inks. https://www.walmart.com/ip/Pilot-Varsity-Disposable-Fountain-Pens-Medium-Point-Assorted-Ink-7-Count-21401872/21401872

I'm teaching my son Latin right now. We play Uno, and he needs to do a vocabulary word every time he plays a card.

Just the basic set is fine. The additional phonogram cards are if you're also teaching reading.

The wacky trick side is focused on the letter formation, but the worksheets spend a lot of effort connecting letters to themselves, and then to a variety of others.

It might even have been beneficial to describe movements as "clockwise" and "counter-clockwise" and get them used to a clock face, but probably there was no effect in either direction. Both of them are able to read an analog clock now. I think the 9 year old could before we started, but the 7 year old couldn't.

I used it with my 7 year old daughter and an 9 year old son. I thought it was quite good - there's a lot of guidance on how the instructor can teach the class, and the gross motor -> fine motor model seemed pretty effective. Son had just about graduated from OT for dysgraphia when the pandemic hit, and after CF and a *lot* of copywork and writing practice, his handwriting is... well, it's within normal limits for a nine year old boy. No prizes for neatness, but it's entirely legible. The curriculum is *really* cheap, and it allows you basically unlimited copies of the practice sheets, which was handy for the DS, who needed a lot more practice than just a workbook is likely to give. The only trick is that some of the material comes unlaminated, and the instructions strongly suggest you laminate it, so you need to either go to an office supply store to get that done or use it as a transparent excuse to splurge on the laminator you have desired for years. Obviously, I picked the latter. Here's a video of the author working with a four year old, which gives you a sense of some of the strategies. I didn't do the saltbox much, but spent a lot of equivalent time working on a chalkboard.

It really is extraordinary. One of the best books I've read - gives a real idea of how *difficult* arithmetic really is, conceptually, and how I -- a major in a math subfield -- didn't know basic math nearly as well as I thought I did. Also, can be kind of read like a horror story/ dark comedy as you see US elementary school teachers, selected for their interest in mathematics, flail fruitlessly at the questions.

Yes; I am doing Teaching Writing Through Guided Analysis this way with my two somewhat younger, fairly advanced kids (4th and 2nd) and it is working really well. Younger one has required more explanations, scaffolding, time with writing, etc. but it's pretty doable.

We've introduced Writing With Ease in parallel with Treasured Conversations for my very behind 9 year old. TC usually on the weekends and holidays (when his definitely not behind 7 year old sister can join), and WWE on weekdays. Our other candidate to add on to TC was Rod & Staff, which my non-native speaking spouse found more difficult than WWE to implement. I like TC best, but I thought that both WWE and Rod and Staff had different approaches which were fairly complementary.

The Small Woman , the story of Gladys Aylward, a missionary who led a hundred orphans from Japanese-occupied territory to safety in the South. This was later Hollywoodized as "The Inn of the Sixth Happiness".

I have to say, that print looks really nice! Otherwise, just posting to concur about introducing cursive. We worked with an OT for quite a while on my child's terrible print from somewhere in second to mid third grade and managed to get it from "diagnosably dysgraphic" to "bad". Never really managed to fix letter formation, though. But cursive has been a different story. It allowed him to start completely fresh with a system that makes it actively difficult to go too far wrong, as far as letter formation goes. He's somewhere around average now, and shockingly, I can't immediately tell his copywork from his younger sister's. Never would've believed that was possible in the days when she could produce far more beautiful handwriting as a kindergartener than he could in second grade.

Happy new year! Thanks for the all the suggestions thus far. None of them seem to be the series I was originally looking for, but I've got some places to start now.

Does anyone have a suggestion for a human anatomy course that could be used with a fairly advanced 4th grade boy? Either Christian or secular would be OK. I am almost certain that I've read here about a Christian-oriented set of anatomy books written by a female doctor, but have either misplaced my notes, or thought that surely I would remember something like this, why bother writing it down.