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There are a lot of changes going on at the Five J's home. For starters, my husband is retiring from full-time music ministry in a few weeks and will be working from home with me at Five J's Design (and helping me develop a curriculum we hope to have out by the beginning of 2014!). [...]
We're now two weeks into our school year, and I'm happy to say I've finally figured out what curriculum my 5th grader is doing. Here's a rundown of what she'll be finishing up the rest of the year. Language Arts: We are using the Level 2 Language Arts program by Michael Clay Thompson which includes [...]
Here is a rundown of our curriculum plan for my daughter Jerah who will be in the 8th grade next year. English Jerah took a Writer's Workshop class through The Potter's School this year, and next year she'll move on to an English 1 course. She'll also be doing independent reading in addition to her [...]
Our first year of homeschooling high school has been a bit of a challenge. We're making it through, but due to some struggles my 9th grader has had with motivation, some of the credits we'd planned on granting for his freshman year just didn't happen. He'll end up with about 5.5 credits for his freshman [...]
Between music camp, a writing workshop in Kansas, and a dozen other activities, I've been trying to finalize our curriculum list for this upcoming school year. And I'm elated to say the list is finally done, and nearly all the curriculum has been ordered. Here's our homeschool curriculum plan for the upcoming year. And as [...]
NOTE: This plan was set up prior to Jaden's freshman year. I update the plan toward the end of his freshman year. You can read the updated 4-year high school plan here. I still can't believe it, but Jaden will be starting high school next year. That unfortunately means I can no longer avoid planning! [...]
In our six years of homeschooling, we've used a number of different math curricula (including Saxon, Math-U-See, Teaching Textbooks, Bob Jones, and even Life of Fred). We loved some and strongly disliked others. But through all of that experimentation, we developed a general curriculum plan for math that we're very satisfied with. In actual practice, my [...]
I've found that even after five years of homeschooling, I'm still making a lot of adjustments to our curriculum each year. This coming year some of the adjustments are due to the fact that I need some subjects to be independent for my kids, hence the self-teaching math my older two are switching to. As [...]
Jaden will technically be in the 7th grade next year, so his curriculum has changed substantially from last year; he'll be doing much more of his work independently. Here's his curriculum plan for 2009-2010. Language Arts 1. Grammar & Writing: Rod & Staff English 7 — Jaden began Rod & Staff with book 6 this [...]
This is our fourth year homeschooling, and I feel more comfortable with our curriculum choices than I have ever before. We've switched some of our curriculum from the beginning of the year, but all the changes have been for the better. We're finally in a routine with both our schedule and our curriculum that works [...]
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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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