Free Homeschooling Resources to Help Parents Raise Lifelong Learners
Every year homeschool moms sit down to plan the next year of curriculum. In the process—at least if you're like me—it often becomes painfully obvious that the curriculum is going to cost a lot. And sadly, many times we have to alter curriculum choice because the financial resources are not there to pay for it [...]
I've written many posts about my favorite curriculums. But I thought I'd change it up this time and write about the non-curriculum goodies that make homeschooling at our house run more smoothly. I also want to add that although I consider myself a frugal person, I've learned that sometimes I just can't scrimp on quality. [...]
I receive many emails asking me for advice about homeschooling. How do I start homeschooling? What's the best curriculum to use with a child who struggles with reading? Can you tell me how to homeschool eight children at the same time? While I've homeschooled my children for many years, I still don't feel qualified to [...]
Planning coursework for high school can be a daunting task. How do I know which courses my child needs to take? Will my child have enough credits in each subject to meet my state's graduation requirements? Will my child meet the admission requirements for his college of choice? I had the same questions last year [...]
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 [...]
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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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