Free Homeschooling Resources to Help Parents Raise Lifelong Learners
I've listed all the books and curriculum I have for sale below by subject. Curriculum includes Rod & Staff, Writing Strands, Singapore, Beautiful Feet, ARTistic Pursuits, and more. When possible, I've included the ISBN so that you can see exactly which book it is. I've also included the condition of the book and the type [...]
Are you studying logical fallacies with your kids? If you're not, you should! And this printable logical fallacy poster from YourLogicalFallacyIs.com can help. It lists and describes 24 different logical fallacies that we frequently encounter. "A logical fallacy is usually what has happened when someone is wrong about something. It's a flaw in reasoning. They're [...]
The last few weeks I've been getting to know Christen Ferster, a registered dietician and soon-to-be-homeschool-mom who would like to write a nutrition curriculum for homeschoolers. I invited her to write a guest post here on Five J's so that she'd be able to get some feedback about the curriculum idea from my wonderful readers. [...]
Here is a rundown of our curriculum plan for my daughter Jerah who will be in the 8th grade next year. English Jerah took a Writer's Workshop class through The Potter's School this year, and next year she'll move on to an English 1 course. She'll also be doing independent reading in addition to her [...]
Our first year of homeschooling high school has been a bit of a challenge. We're making it through, but due to some struggles my 9th grader has had with motivation, some of the credits we'd planned on granting for his freshman year just didn't happen. He'll end up with about 5.5 credits for his freshman [...]
Geography is one of my kids' favorite subjects, so I was excited when I was given the opportunity to review a couple of unique geography books: Eat Your Way Around the World and Geography Through Art, both of which are published by Geography Matters, a great homeschool geography curriculum company. Eat Your Way Around the [...]
Do you remember Weekly Readers from elementary school? Those age-appropriate newspapers would give us some basic information about current events…albeit not terribly current. In the age of the internet, it's much easier to find up-to-the-minute information about events happening in our world. But sometimes there's just so much information, it's hard to sort through it [...]
Through February 16, 2012, you can download the Funnix Beginning Reading Program for free. The reading program is 220 complete lessons taking children from beginning non-readers to reading at a beginning third grade level. To get the free download, you'll just need to fill out the form here. After filling out the form, you will [...]
English is a very complicated language. Many English words, due to their roots in a variety of languages such as French, Greek, German, and Latin, are known to be exceptionally hard to spell and pronounce correctly. Sure, as homeschoolers we like to entertain the idea that there are actually English spelling and pronunciation "rules" that [...]
I just swapped out the book selection at the Five J's MightyBookJr.com Reading Station. Your kids can choose from 12 new books to read for free online, many of which this time are songs. And don't forget, if you want access to MightyBookJr.com's full library of over 900 animated story books, FiveJ's.com readers get 80% [...]
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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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