Free Homeschooling Resources to Help Parents Raise Lifelong Learners
Joely has long been fascinated with fractions. So now that she's doing Singapore Math 3, and she's got a good handle on multiplication and division, I've finally pulled out the big guns — in my opinion one of the best fractions curriculums on the market, Key To Fractions. Jaden and Jerah have also used the [...]
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 [...]
In the past I've used a variety of methods to help my kids practice their basic math facts. They've drilled on paper with worksheets from The Math Worksheet Site or Worksheet Works; they've also drilled online at Math-U-See and FactMonster. But this summer I found out about FlashMaster — and everything changed. I bought one on Amazon [...]
Partial Products Multiplication Do your kids struggle with multiplication? Do you pull your hair out when you have to teach it? Maybe this method can help. When I was in junior high, I discovered a different way to do multi-digit multiplication. I honestly can't remember what book I read, or where I learned it, other [...]
Judging distances and measurements, especially large measurements, is difficult for kids. 10 feet? 50 feet? Visualizing how long those distances actually are is a challenge. What we've found that really helps is having something familiar and concrete to compare distances to. So for my own kids, I decided to give them some models for comparison, [...]
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 [...]
If someone were to ask me what homeschooling philosophy I follow, I'd probably say, "A little of this…a little of that." I don't subscribe to any one philosophy—or curriculum for that matter—because there's not one that fits each one of my children's learning styles. Consequently, I'm the epitome of the eclectic homeschooler; our "curriculum" is [...]
To help my five-year-old understand basic math better, I made up a little math "Hide-and-Guess" game that Joely really enjoys playing. We use our Math-U-See blocks when we play it, but you can use any kind of objects that you'd like (pennies, cheerios, paper clips, etc.) This game also helps illustrate the concept of number [...]
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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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