Free Homeschooling Resources to Help Parents Raise Lifelong Learners
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). [...]
The New Year is here again (can you believe it's already 2013!) and like many, your resolution might be to get more organized. If you've found that calendars help you stay organized, you might like to download this 2013 printable calendar with inspirational, educational quotes that I've designed especially for homeschoolers. I hope you enjoy [...]
Planning coursework for high school can be a daunting task. How do I know which courses my child needs to take? Will my child have enough credits in each subject to meet my state's graduation requirements? Will my child meet the admission requirements for his college of choice? I had the same questions last year [...]
Last year I shared our 2011-2102 school calendar and included a blank version that you could print out and use for your own school. In the last couple weeks, I've had numerous requests for a 2012-2013 version of the printable school calendar, so here it is! The image below (click on it to enlarge) is [...]
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 [...]
This morning my 9-year-old was working on editing some sentences where she was looking for errors and correcting them. I noticed she tended to overlook some of the more common errors, such as misspellings of it's/its, your/you're, two/to/too, there/their/they're, and whose/who's. She knows how to use each of the words the proper way, but catching [...]
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 [...]
Joely was learning about 4-quadrant coordinate planes today, so we looked up the coordinate plane game that I posted earlier this year so we could play it. Unfortunately I discovered that the game I'd made only included one quadrant, not all four. So instead of just printing out a separate 4-quadrant plane from another site [...]
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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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