Homeschool and Educational Resources to Help Parents Raise Lifelong Learners
Here's a great addition to your homeschool art curriclum. Artist Bob Davies is an excellent teacher, and his ebooks provide a wealth of information on painting. He offers step-by-step instructions with corresponding photos for each concept, so even young beginners can benefit greatly from reading through these. The free Acrylic Painting Secrets ebook includes the [...]
Over the 15 years I was a piano teacher, I heard this question from parents on a regular basis. Unfortunately there's not a one-size-fits-all answer. What's right for one family may not be for another. But let me share my thoughts on the issue. "How would you feel if someone forced you to do something you [...]
I'm a piano teacher and my husband is a music minister, so people tell us all the time that our children have no hope — they are going to turn out to be musical kids. And it's turned out to be true. All three of our kids seem to have developed an ability for music; [...]
My six-year-old daughter has been asking to learn to play the recorder this week, so we pulled out my husband's old recorder, dusted it off, and let her practice on it. But when I checked online to find a good fingering chart to print off for her, I only found ones that were either interactive [...]
I posted last weekend about the book Basic Music Theory: How to Read, Write, and Understand Written Music, by Jonathan Harnum, which is available for download in its entirety here. (UPDATE: The author has recently changed the download from FREE to PAID. You can still download the 1st edition of Basic Music Theory here, although [...]
I'm so excited about creating a full-blown music theory curriculum for my kids using the free Basic Music Theory book I posted about earlier. One of the things I'm going to be doing when I set up my lesson plans is to utilize online theory drills to reinforce the concepts that are taught, so I [...]
UPDATE: The author has changed the download from FREE to PAID. However, it is still reasonably priced so it might still be worth considering. I've been looking for an easy way to formally teach my kids music theory. So I did a little online research tonight, and I found what looks to be the perfect [...]
My kids love to draw, so I've scheduled into our homeschooling day some time for drawing instruction. Jaden is working through Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain (the workbook), and he and I have been extremely pleased with it so far. After only a week, I think his drawing has already improved. The [...]
As a piano teacher, one of my main jobs is to teach my students how to practice and learn pieces of music at home. Many students tend to practice in a very ineffective way. Here's what many students think constitutes "practicing." They start playing at the beginning of the piece. They play until they make [...]
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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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