Free Homeschooling Resources to Help Parents Raise Lifelong Learners
If you have preschoolers, you'll want to download the ebook 101 Activities to do with your Preschool Child by Heidi Johnson of Homeschool-How-To.com. You may also like to sign up to receive her other free ebooks How to Homeschool with the Best Resources and How to Get Started with Homeschooling. Thanks Homeschool Freebie of the Day!
Over our last four years of homeschooling, I have used several different math curricula. Some I liked better the others, but they all had their own strengths and weaknesses. One of the strengths of one particular curriculum we use, Singapore Math, is their method of teaching basic math facts. Instead of teaching fact families by [...]
Here are some easy, hands-on activities that can help your children strengthen their alphabetizing skills. These activities don't cover alphabetizing by the second of third letter (and so on), but they can greatly improve that all-important underlying skill of quick-recall of basic ABC order. To do these activities, you first need to pick up a [...]
Many new homeschooling moms stress out about teaching their kindergartener. What curriculum should I use? How many hours a day should we do school? How in the world do I teach my child to read? Some how-to-homeschool books will try to offer you definitive answers to those questions. But then, to your chagrin, other books [...]
Several years ago when I started looking for a phonics curriculum to help me teach my kids how to read, I thought all the phonics programs were basically the same. But boy, was I wrong! There are several different schools of thought when it comes to teaching phonics. Here are two major methods that are [...]
At the beginning of the school year I wrote about how I make up my own first grade language lessons using a short sentence or two from a children's book that illustrates a particular language-related concept. For instance, if we want to study plurals, I might select a sentence(s) that has a singular and a [...]
I'm a big fan of the Ruth Beechick-style of teaching. Dr. Beechick, like Charlotte Mason, espouses using real books to teach, especially in the teaching of language. (If you're interested in reading more about Dr. Beechick's philosophy, I would highly recommend her The Three R's series for K-3rd grade and You Can Teach Your Child [...]
Math for my 5-year-old Joely is definitely one of those areas that is better learned without pencil in hand. So instead of using a workbook for "doing math," we have often used a set of 100 number tiles that I picked up for next to nothing earlier in the year. I really like our tiles [...]
If you're teaching your child to read, but you've never heard of Starfall, then you're missing out on a wonderful resource! Hurry on over to Starfall and check out their wonderful site. Here's a sample of what Starfall has to offer: Learn to Read—Zac the Rat and other tales: This is Starfall's absolutely wonderful interactive [...]
How can a 5-year-old learn to identify Chopin, Magellan, Pasteur, Watt, and 48 other notable people? By playing the simple game of Go Fish. But let me start at the beginning. Over 10 years ago my husband and I purchased a deck of Composer playing cards from a music store in Anchorage, Alaska. We didn't [...]
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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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