Lovingtherain,
16 year old mostly deals with himself. He uses a standard Scottish text book for maths (Heinemann Higher Mathematics), reads very extensively at an adult level of both fact and fiction. ATM he is reading OUP Short Introduction to The Russian Revolution, Bloody Britain by TOny Robinson, Animal Farm (for a quick look at novel study in case he wants to do some formal stuff next year)and some random fantasy novel by Ian Esslemont or Trudy Cavanagh or somebody. HE is also investigating Ninjutsu, reading about the history and traditions, finding out, and in some cases practicing, fighting techniques. He bought himself a practice sword and you can often find him in the garden waving it around! He has some science text books that he works from when he feels like it and is addicted ti Lego Exo-force robot building.
Younger ones are fairly eclectic as well. I try and do some maths and English of some kind most days (maths using standard text books but with less regard for published age/year group than kids abilities.I expect the middle 2 to read for at least an hour a day as well. After that we are mostly child led. I read aloud every day as well. Have just finished The Number Devil and am beginning Penrose the Mathematical Cat and the story of David livingstone. Most days we have games and puzzles like Tantrix, Tip-over, Logic links, Lego Mosaics. They practice their instruments every day (DS3 (12) guitar, DD (10) violin, DS4 (6) ocarina) for about 1/2 an hour. DD loves arts and crafts an messing around with gluing and sticking sparkly stuff. DS3 likes Scratch and messing about with Word and Excel, we do the odd science experiment and I have about 1 million books of all kinds available all the time. DS3 also is beginning to learn a bit of basic Latin, because for some reason he wants to!
6 year old does some maths ( sums, time etc.) some reading (Simple books with short, easy sentences like Snap Dragons and Project X by ORT), a little bit of writing practice, mostly just letter shapes ( he doesn't enjoy it so I don't push it) every day. The rest of the time, he mainly plays. I make things like blocks, math manipulatives, cars, speed stacks, jigsaws ( which he avoids like the plague) available all the time. He loves mazes, dot to dot and such things, so he does a lot of these. He doesn't like art and crafts, but we do some colouring in, paint splotting or whatever most days. And, most importantly, I read to him, anything really that he wants to here from Thomas the tank to stories about eels breeding in the Sargasso, or Mrs Pepperpot to Astrosaurs. I don't really see any need to force him into things that he doesn't want to do at the moment because I don't want to put him off.
We also subscribe to Gridclub, they use Funbrain and the BBC children's websites, Nick junior games, Starfall.com (reading) and a ton of other good sites. Kids also help with things like meal planning, shopping, growing the veg, doing the washing (DS4's favourite)and other things like that. At the mo. we aren't doing anything because a couple of them are ill. But the winter is long, wet and dark so there will be plenty time to catch up then.
Hope this helps at all. I won't claim that it is easy and sometimes I just want to escape, but then I remember how miserable they were when they were at school and nursery and how much easier it is not to be tied to school times and fake standards. it may seem as if my whole day is taken up, but it isn't at all, the kids can get on with their maths or whatever on their own once they know what they are doing and things are much more flexible in here than in a schooled family. the reasons I am a Stressed mum don't really have that much to do with HE