FiveJs

From the monthly archives:

July 2009

July 29, 2009

How Many Pints in a Gallon?

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 [...]

July 25, 2009

Free eBook: The Evolution of a Creationist, by Dr. Jobe Martin

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 [...]

July 22, 2009

The "Spiral" Method of Homeschooling

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 into [...]

July 15, 2009

Teaching REAL Study Skills

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 [...]

July 9, 2009

Simply Zesty Sauce

If you've read my blog for any length of time, you know that I really like making Zesty Cook's recipes. They're all so easy-to-make and delicious.
Tonight I asked Zesty if he had an easy recipe for a sauce for baked chicken. He gave me a tried-and-true recipe of his, I prepared it, and Jerah and [...]

July 8, 2009

Homeschooling: What About Socialization?

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 [...]

July 3, 2009

Finer Things Friday: The Gift of Hot Air

A week ago Wednesday Joely read a narrative in her vocabulary book about the Albuquerque Balloon Fiesta. She was fascinated by the story of how the hot air balloons can take off and then come back to the same place to land in Albuquerque. She determined then and there that she wanted to go up [...]

← Previous Entries