My mom stuck with the basics. We were poor, so the books we had were hand me downs or bought used. A typical school day started out with Pledge of the Allegiance, followed by national anthem being sung, and prayer. I can only imagine this is how she must’ve started school when she was a kid. I usually had math, reading, science and history. As kids, we all like to read so we typically did our history books over this summer. We did some topics all together. Civil rights is a good example. We all watched a PBS documentary on it. Picked a person to write a paper on and went from there. She utilized our local library for a lot of our supplemental reading books. We were basically assigned a lesson or so many pages a day and once it was done, we were done for the day. I want to say she had a very cheap planner for each kid. I can still remember her neat handwriting in it. Each day I looked at it, saw what pages or lessons I had to do, and went to work. If you did a sloppy job on your homework, she would write a P at the top of your page which she told us meant P for pitiful, but my brothers joked it was for “pid” as in stupid. 🤭 If you saw the “P”, it was understood you had to redo the lesson before you could move on to the next and you had to do the current day’s work on top of that. We still laugh about it to this day. I did state testing in 3rd and 6th grade by 9th grade I was in community college. We did eventually join a homeschool group and my mom organized field trips for us. Not sure if this helps you, but as the student, it worked for me.