Free Homeschooling Resources to Help Parents Raise Lifelong Learners
In the course of homeschooling, it's helpful to look back over the previous week to evaluate what's working and what is not. One thing I'm going to be implementing with my children is a weekly conference and evaluation, especially with my 9th grader. This will not only help me stay on top of their progress, [...]
Planning our curriculum and daily homeschool schedule for the entire school year is a daunting task. I don't claim to have mastered it by any stretch, but there are some basic steps I take that help me tremendously in the planning process. What I end up with at the end of this process is an [...]
With a child in high school, I'm really working on being more organized with my planning this year. In years past I've used a single binder for all my teacher keys, and that saved me a lot of headaches. But I know that I'm going to need to step up my game for this year. [...]
I asked this question on Facebook and got some interesting replies about how people utilize different "school supplies" in their homeschool. But in case you missed the conversation on Facebook, I wanted to ask the question here as well. So, what's your favorite homeschool "school supply" and how do you use it? Leave a comment [...]
Update: Thank you to the commenter who pointed out that Thanksgiving was wrong on my calendar. Who knew it was on Thursday this year!? The files have been fixed and should be correct now. For the last couple years our school calendar has been mostly six weeks on, then one week off. We've found this [...]
School started for us this week, and since I'm now homeschooling a high schooler, I've been scrambling all summer to figure out how best to keep track of grades and other important records. As usual, I looked around the internet, and although I found some spreadsheet templates for keeping grades, none of them seemed to [...]
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! [...]
The decision to homeschool is rarely made lightly. Often parents will do hours and hours of research about homeschooling, discuss it at length with each other, and earnestly pray for guidance before making the final decision to homeschool. But there's another step that is just as essential to ensuring success —and preventing burnout. Finding support. [...]
Why Name Your Homeschool? Many homeschoolers may not think about creating a unique name for their homeschool, but there are many reasons why having a name is not only a good idea, but sometimes even necessary. Some homeschool accountability groups/umbrella programs may require your homeschool to be identified by a name. An official name is [...]
For most of this school year, Jaden (my 8th grader) has been using a weekly assignment planner to help him organize his schoolwork. The planner form has evolved a bit since I first introduced it to him at the beginning of the year, being tweaked weekly until it met both Jaden's needs and my own. [...]
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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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