We read lots and lots. I do not lecture. The kids read their lessons. The kids read 2 chapters per day from a book of their choice. Their written summaries and reports are corrected for content, spelling, structure and grammar and rewritten until perfect.
Misspelled words become spelling words.
They are no longer teaching math in the public schools. It's not just the homeschoolers who have noticed this but the scientists, mathematicians and engineers are concerned about what the new fad in math is doing to our children. New, new math is shortchanging our students on essential techniques and skills, and it is actively frustrating and turning them off to math by giving them problems more suited to graduate students in number theory than average children learning arithmetic and algebra. But think about it. Math can be difficult and frustrating or it can be simple, easy and fun.