Free Homeschooling Resources to Help Parents Raise Lifelong Learners
My good friend Amy (of Blogging With Amy fame) has just launched her ebook about organizing your time and managing your schedule. I've already read through the whole ebook, and I've gotta say, it's pretty awesome. And convicting too. Organizing my time — keeping my priorities straight — is definitely something I personally need to work [...]
We educate our children to equip them to become responsible adults, to be able to support their families, and to be productive members of society. But if our children grow up to have good-paying careers, yet their income is taxed so heavily that they can't keep enough money in their own pockets to provide for [...]
Last year my husband and 10-year-old daughter participated in NaNoWriMo — National Novel Writing Month. Throughout the month of November, they both wrote a novel from scratch. It was a great learning experience for both of them. This year my 13-year-old and 11-year-old are planning to participate. (EDIT: My 8-year-old has decided to participate this [...]
Joely has long been fascinated with fractions. So now that she's doing Singapore Math 3, and she's got a good handle on multiplication and division, I've finally pulled out the big guns — in my opinion one of the best fractions curriculums on the market, Key To Fractions. Jaden and Jerah have also used the [...]
This month we ordered more free things from Amazon.com. We paid for our order with Amazon.com gift cards, all of which we earned with Swagbucks. In the past, we've mostly ordered books for school, but this time we opted to order goodies for the kitchen. Here's this months' order: Cooking, by James Peterson Artisan Bread [...]
Jaden and Jerah are currently working on research papers about abortion. While I much prefer books for research, since they need to collect current information about laws and statistics, their best resource is the internet. That means that they need to learn how to evaluate the credibility of a website to determine whether or not [...]
The subject of temperature, boiling points, and Celsius vs. Fahrenheit arose during Jaden's science lesson today. It served as a reminder that I'm not very confident about converting tempteratures between Celsius and Fahrenheit; and I discovered my son needed a review as well. I created these two printable study charts about Celsius and Fahrenheit to [...]
For the month of October, Answers in Genesis DVDs are 25% off at ChristianBook.com. We own quite a few books and DVDs by Answers in Genesis, and they've proven to be a wonderful resource for teaching creation science and apologetics. If you're not familiar with Answers in Genesis, it's an apologetics (i.e., Christianity-defending) ministry, dedicated to [...]
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By doing web searches online and referring others to do the same, I earn Swagbucks which I then redeem for Amazon.com gift cards. I then use the gift cards to 'purchase' books for free. If you like free stuff, you can sign up for Swagbucks too!
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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