Welcome :) my 6 YO is home educated. He went to school for a term in reception and we then withdrew him.
It is a myth that home educated children do not socialise. There are a multitude of activities your children can be involved in. My son attends forest school after school drop off club where he mixes with home educated and schooled children alike, we have regular playdates with small groups of fellow home educated children, he does a drop off art club with a mix of home educated and schooled children. There is honestly loads, you just have to know where to look. My little boy is very confident and sociable with children of all ages plus adults, as are many other home educated children. Please don't buy into the myth that our children are all locked in the cupboard under the stairs and never see anyone else!!
Aside from that, my advice would be:
- take some time to "de-school" (yourself as well as your DC). This is a period of time where you have no structure or formal learning per se in place, giving you both time to adjust to a different way of learning. The general rule of thumb for this is a month of de schooling time per year your child has been in formal education.
- do not try to do "school at home" as this rarely ends well. Take some time to figure out what works for your child and for you.
- look into the various methods of home education, as there are many. We follow the classical method with our son with some elements of Charlotte Mason thrown in. I do also keep an eye on the national curriculum to check where he is compared to his peers at school, but many other home educating families discount the NC completely.
We start our day with "morning time" which is where we cover a lot of our sit down learning time. This involves reading (me to him and him to me), poetry, French, maths, music study and art study. We don't do all of these every day but reading, French and maths we always do. After this we have a "main lesson" where we go into depth on one further subject (science, nature study, ancient history, geography etc). Then lunch. After lunch we often do a social or outdoor activity. On the odd days we don't have anything planned we'll go for a walk and then he will choose what he wants to do - often chooses a craft project or to learn more about something he finds interesting. Once a week we have "poetry teatime" where we bake together and then sit down to read more poetry.
We don't do any formal handwriting lessons: he writes as part of his other learning. His spelling is excellent due to the amount we read.
Hope that helps. How we do it won't be necessarily how you want to do it though, so honestly my best advice is take time and work out what is best for you.