Free Homeschooling Resources to Help Parents Raise Lifelong Learners
If your children are studying Latin like we are, you might like to download these two free Latin Readers —Cornelia and A New Latin Primer. Both would be a great addition to whatever Latin curriculum you're using. Cornelia, by Mima Maxey Written in 1933, Cornelia is a story about the adventures of a young girl [...]
Jerah is currently enrolled in an online Latin class taught by Dwane Thomas, creator of Visual Latin. Last week in one of Dwane's emails to his students he answered a question posed to him on the Visual Latin forum. I liked what he wrote so much I asked Dwane if it would be okay if [...]
It's no secret that I'm a fan of Latin. I believe learning Latin can be a tremendous asset for any student, helping them develop a deep understand of our English language. Over the last few years we've used a a few different Latin curriculums, including Latina Christiana, Cambridge Latin, Visual Latin, and Lingua Latina. This [...]
The wonderful people at Visual Latin have been having some server trouble after their site was hacked. So as a way to thank everyone for their patience while they have been offline, they're offering a code for 50% off everything in their store until Tuesday, April 5, 2011. Just head on over to the Visual [...]
Visual Latin is a unique Latin curriculum that we've been using for several months in our homeschool. It's not your typical curriculum — not in the least. It's even better! What is Visual Latin? Visual Latin is a curriculum of sequential videos recorded by instructor Dwane Thomas in which he introduces the student to the [...]
If you've read the book Carry On, Mr. Bowditch, you may remember that the main character, Nathaniel Bowditch, taught himself several languages simply by using a dictionary, a Bible, and a grammar in that language. Reading the new language in a familiar context helped him understand the vocabulary, grammar, and syntax quickly. I don't necessarily [...]
When we first starting homeschooling and I was researching curriculum, I quickly realized there were a lot of homeschoolers out there teaching Latin to their children. Honestly, at first I thought they were just snobby homeschoolers who were teaching their kids Latin just to make themselves look good. I just couldn't see the value in [...]
I'm planning to include Rosetta Stone Spanish in our curriculum beginning next year, and my girls have been very excited about the prospect. But Jaden has seemed less than enthusiastic about learning Spanish, so today I asked him what language he would like to study. And his response? Latin. He chose Latin! (Actually a very [...]
Being a very visual person, I made up a color-coded chart for our Latina Christian I curriculum that covers the verb conjugations we're studying this year. You can download a PDF for your own use.
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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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