Free Homeschooling Resources to Help Parents Raise Lifelong Learners
I was recently introduced to a great art & drawing lessons resource for homeschoolers called The Virtual Instructor. The site offers both free and premium art lessons via video tutorials. The instructor, Matt Fussell—who is not only an excellent artist but a wonderful teacher—contacted me a few weeks ago to let me know about his [...]
I mentioned in my curriculum post that next year my children will be tutored in Spanish by a friend of ours who is just about to graduate from college with a Bachelor's degree in Spanish. I also mentioned that in addition to tutoring my kids, Mary is also going to be offering Spanish I classes [...]
There are a lot of changes going on at the Five J's home. For starters, my husband is retiring from full-time music ministry in a few weeks and will be working from home with me at Five J's Design (and helping me develop a curriculum we hope to have out by the beginning of 2014!). [...]
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If you're in the market for some unique, video-based homeschool curriculum, now's the time to get it! Compass Classroom is currently having a big spring sale and is offering 30% off all their products (except for online classes) when you use the code CCSPRING30 at checkout. Compass Classroom is the company that created the Visual [...]
This is my husband Jeff's third post in his series How to Raise & Encourage Your Young Writer. I made mention last time of ways to encourage the young writer in your household. One of the things on my list was something to not do, namely trying to offer critiques during the creation stage. There’s [...]
Change is in the air! And for us, that means changing up our homeschool calendar yet again. If you're a regular reader, you know we've tried several different ways of organizing our homeschool year. We've done almost-year-round schedules (12-week terms with one week off in between and 6-week terms with two weeks off in between). [...]
My family is so incredibly excited about the brand new middle school writing curriculum called Cover Story coming out this summer. The curriculum was created by our favorite writing teacher, Mr. S, who is the brains behind the incredible One Year Adventure Novel curriculum which I constantly rave about. Joely will be using this curriculum [...]
This is my husband Jeff's second post in his series How to Raise & Encourage Your Young Writer. Welcome back to our series on How to Raise and Encourage Your Young Writer. This week I’d like to address some writing idiosyncrasies that non-writers may not understand. I'd also like to remind parents that in this [...]
Every year homeschool moms sit down to plan the next year of curriculum. In the process—at least if you're like me—it often becomes painfully obvious that the curriculum is going to cost a lot. And sadly, many times we have to alter curriculum choice because the financial resources are not there to pay for it [...]
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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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