Free Homeschooling Resources to Help Parents Raise Lifelong Learners
The New Year is the time for making resolutions, and for many people, one of those resolutions is to be more organized. To make getting organized a little easier, I've designed a 2012 printable calendar especially for homeschoolers that has an inspirational educational quote on each month. I hope you enjoy! Download the 2012 Printable [...]
In the course of homeschooling, it's helpful to look back over the previous week to evaluate what's working and what is not. One thing I'm going to be implementing with my children is a weekly conference and evaluation, especially with my 9th grader. This will not only help me stay on top of their progress, [...]
I've written before about why I believe number bonds are a far superior way to teach basic math facts, and I still stand by that claim. All my children have learned their math facts this way (through the Singapore math curriculum), and they still think of math operations in terms of number bonds, even in [...]
You can download free audiobook files of the complete Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis. These recordings were read by Chrissi Hart for her Readings from Under the Grapevine podcast and are made available by Ancient Faith Radio. If you don't want to download the audiobook files, you can also listen to the books in [...]
A reader on the Five J's Facebook page recently asked this question: "My 4th grade daughter is very much lacking in the grammar dept. Do you know of a curriculum for her? It has to be well explained since I have no idea about that stuff and she prefers to work on her own. Thanks!" [...]
My son is very interested in computer programming, so since he started high school this year, we decided to come up with a curriculum to help him start learning it. He's specifically interested in programming for Apple devices, so that means learning Objective-C. Based on the recommendation of an Apple programmer, he started off with [...]
If you're a grammar-nerd like myself, you probably hold a strong opinion about the proper use of commas in a series. But even if you aren't passionate about this particular punctuation, you still use commas in a series when you write, and you'll probably be teaching your children how to use them properly as well. [...]
I'm so excited about a new feature that was just added to FiveJs.com. MightyBookJr.com has teamed up with Five J's to offer a free Reading Station featuring a dozen of their wonderful animated books. Your children can read the books online over, and over again and they'll be learning while having fun. The book selection [...]
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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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