Free Homeschooling Resources to Help Parents Raise Lifelong Learners
This is my husband Jeff's third post in his series How to Raise & Encourage Your Young Writer. I made mention last time of ways to encourage the young writer in your household. One of the things on my list was something to not do, namely trying to offer critiques during the creation stage. There’s [...]
My family is so incredibly excited about the brand new middle school writing curriculum called Cover Story coming out this summer. The curriculum was created by our favorite writing teacher, Mr. S, who is the brains behind the incredible One Year Adventure Novel curriculum which I constantly rave about. Joely will be using this curriculum [...]
This is my husband Jeff's second post in his series How to Raise & Encourage Your Young Writer. Welcome back to our series on How to Raise and Encourage Your Young Writer. This week I’d like to address some writing idiosyncrasies that non-writers may not understand. I'd also like to remind parents that in this [...]
Hello, Five J's readers. I'm Jeff, Joy's husband. I'm insinuating myself onto her blog (with permission!) to start a new series of posts concerning raising and encouraging the young writer in your household—through both the struggles and the joys. I've been a writer for most of my life and I've been through the ups and [...]
Does your child love to write stories? My 13-year-old daughter adores writing, especially since she was introduced to the One Year Adventure Novel curriculum a few years ago. But really, she comes by her love of writing naturally. My husband has been writing practically his whole life, and is currently working on publishing his first [...]
In case you missed the fact that I adore the Oxford comma (and the reasons why I think you should love it, too), here's a fabulous infographic that might explain more. Courtesy of: Online Schools
One could argue that the study of idioms falls under the umbrella of the three R’s, but in reality, idioms are generally taught—if at all—only haphazardly in regular language arts curriculum. Yet understanding idioms is so important. And it’s not because our children need to be taught how to use idioms in their daily speech; [...]
I'm trying to be proactive and plan my children's reading list before school starts for once! The lists for my 8th and 5th graders are still unfinished, but here are the books my 10th grade soon will be reading this school year. It's a mix of fiction and non-fiction in a variety of subjects and [...]
Do you have any budding poets in your family? They might really enjoy this unique online rhyming dictionary called Write Rhymes. It's not your normal dictionary where you look up words out of context. Instead, you type your poem right into the text box—or paste it in from your word processor)—and when you want to [...]
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 [...]
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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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