Homeschool and Educational Resources to Help Parents Raise Lifelong Learners
I'm a very visual person, and so are my kids, so I try to draw something out whenever I think creating a visual will help get a point across better. I find that sometimes just writing something out as a "picture" helps my children remember the information better, too, even if it's a simple concept [...]
Dr. Jobe Martin has made available his 287-page book, The Evolution of a Creationist, as a free download. Click here to go to the download page. "Dr. Jobe Martin chronicles his personal journey from traditional evolutionary scientist to biblical creationist. Dr. Martin himself was a Zen Buddhist, agnostic, evolutionist but his medical and scientific training [...]
Homeschooling can get messy. With more than half a dozen subjects per child, the sheer volume of written work that needs to be organized and graded can be overwhelming. Until this last school year, my kids would write out any written assignments on a loose sheet of notebook paper. The paper would then get shoved [...]
Homeschooling is going to be a lot different for Jaden next year. For the last four years I've been very involved with his schoolwork, often teaching the lesson directly or reading aloud from the history or science book. I spent a lot of time reviewing what we talked about, and I felt each of the [...]
Socialization is always one of the hot topics in homeschooling. In fact, when we first considered homeschooling four years ago — well, when I first considered homeschooling four years ago — that was one of my husband's first objections to the idea: "What about socialization?" Now that we've been homeschooling for four years, I think [...]
I would venture to say that most homeschoolers start buying curriculum for the following school year in the spring or summer. More often than not this is a daunting task, and the cost of the various curricula can be overwhelming. Over the last few years I've purchased curriculum from a variety of sources. I try [...]
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Joy is the wife of Jeff and mom to three more J's — Jaden, Jerah, and Joely.
She and her husband have been homeschooling their children since 2005, when their children were 3, 6, and 8. Joy works from home as a web & graphic designer and spends what little free time she has with her nose buried in a good book.
Joy's motto for parenting, homeschooling, and even business is “Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.” And that's what FiveJs.com is all about — teaching our children to "fish."
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