I don't have any homeschooling children myself, but I am 'assisting' my nephew via FaceTime daily (3x daily, actually - mum is single parent who is working from home full time). I have learnt over the past week:
-that although I know what fronted adverbials are (as in, the definition of them), I hate them, hate that they're a made up thing for the National Curriculum, and hate that they sound so forced in children's writing
-that trying to teach time telling to 5 minute intervals is a bitch when you're not sitting next to a child using the same resources
-that there is a song for learning the days of the week in Spanish that will get stuck in your head forever (plus side - I now know the days of the week in Spanish, but only in order)
-that even though I'm an experienced EYFS teacher, I did not sign up for KS2 - either for remuneration or voluntarily - for a reason (send me a 5 year old to teach to read, and I'm all over it!)
-that I have said 'we'll mop this up later in the week' at least 3 times already this week in relation to activities...we are never mopping it up, and we're both aware of it...
- that I love my nephew dearly, and he's a good boy - bright, polite, eager to learn - but it's so bloody boring not actually 'doing' anything!