Free Homeschooling Resources to Help Parents Raise Lifelong Learners
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 [...]
To be honest, I really don't see the practical application of memorizing pi to the 35th decimal, but Joely was excited about learning it the other day during her math lesson. And so she did — in less than 30 minutes. After Joely and I memorized pi, I created a chart and set of flashcards [...]
Necessity is definitely the mother of invention. Or in my case, it's the mother of worksheet and chart design. During Joely's math lesson today, the need for a good way to memorize angles became painfully obvious. So I took a few minutes this morning to make up a chart and a set of flashcards about [...]
Here's a fun game that Joely and I have enjoyed playing lately. It has also helped her learn about coordinate planes, ordered pairs, and basic strategy, so she's having a math lessons while playing the game — it's a win-win! This simple four-in-a-row game is based on one we found in Exploring Math with Polyhedra [...]
Lately Joely's been working on finding common factors in her math curriculum. She knows how to do short division already, which makes it quick and easy for her to find factors, but sometimes it's helpful to know ahead of time whether a number is divisible by a certain factor or not. We've talked about how [...]
The subject of temperature, boiling points, and Celsius vs. Fahrenheit arose during Jaden's science lesson today. It served as a reminder that I'm not very confident about converting tempteratures between Celsius and Fahrenheit; and I discovered my son needed a review as well. I created these two printable study charts about Celsius and Fahrenheit to [...]
While Joely was doubling the recipe for her super-chocolately cake the other day, I noticed that she was having trouble doubling certain measurements. So for math today, we sat down and talked fractions, kitchen measurements, and conversions for a while, and she seems to have a much better understanding now. But I couldn't resist the [...]
I'm a very visual person, and so are my kids, so I try to draw something out whenever I think creating a visual will help get a point across better. I find that sometimes just writing something out as a "picture" helps my children remember the information better, too, even if it's a simple concept [...]
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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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