Free Homeschooling Resources to Help Parents Raise Lifelong Learners
Through February 16, 2012, you can download the Funnix Beginning Reading Program for free. The reading program is 220 complete lessons taking children from beginning non-readers to reading at a beginning third grade level. To get the free download, you'll just need to fill out the form here. After filling out the form, you will [...]
English is a very complicated language. Many English words, due to their roots in a variety of languages such as French, Greek, German, and Latin, are known to be exceptionally hard to spell and pronounce correctly. Sure, as homeschoolers we like to entertain the idea that there are actually English spelling and pronunciation "rules" that [...]
Descriptive writing doesn't come naturally to most writers, especially to children. That ability usually has to be learned. As you know, children tend to tell, not show what is happening, so their writing ends up sounding more like a newspaper article rather than a story. As parents and teachers, we often struggle with how to [...]
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 [...]
You can download free audiobook files of the complete Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis. These recordings were read by Chrissi Hart for her Readings from Under the Grapevine podcast and are made available by Ancient Faith Radio. If you don't want to download the audiobook files, you can also listen to the books in [...]
A reader on the Five J's Facebook page recently asked this question: "My 4th grade daughter is very much lacking in the grammar dept. Do you know of a curriculum for her? It has to be well explained since I have no idea about that stuff and she prefers to work on her own. Thanks!" [...]
If you're a grammar-nerd like myself, you probably hold a strong opinion about the proper use of commas in a series. But even if you aren't passionate about this particular punctuation, you still use commas in a series when you write, and you'll probably be teaching your children how to use them properly as well. [...]
I'm so excited about a new feature that was just added to FiveJs.com. MightyBookJr.com has teamed up with Five J's to offer a free Reading Station featuring a dozen of their wonderful animated books. Your children can read the books online over, and over again and they'll be learning while having fun. The book selection [...]
There are a number of opportunities for your students to enter essay, poetry, and playwriting contests and possibly win cash prizes. Of course, the cash prize isn't the only reason to enter because the experience is well-worth it in itself. But the prizes might be great motivation for your young writer. Here are some current [...]
I asked on Facebook today about whether it's common for homeschoolers not to teach spelling formally if a child is already a good speller. Come to find out it seems to be a pretty common practice. At our house, only my 9th grader does anything formal with spelling. And really, Apples: Daily Spelling Drills for [...]
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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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