Homeschool and Educational Resources to Help Parents Raise Lifelong Learners
Do you remember Weekly Readers from elementary school? Those age-appropriate newspapers would give us some basic information about current events…albeit not terribly current. In the age of the internet, it's much easier to find up-to-the-minute information about events happening in our world. But sometimes there's just so much information, it's hard to sort through it [...]
Want to teach your kids about the United States Constitution through a fun song? Rhythm Rhyme Results — also known as EducationalRap.com — is offering a free download of their rap song set "What Does the Constitution Do?". When you download the song set, not only do you get four versions of the song (normal [...]
Remember playing the game of telephone as a kid? One child whispered a phrase into someone's ear, and that child whispered what he heard to the next child, and so on? By the time the last child heard the phrase, it bore little resemblance to the original. "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy [...]
Earth | Time Lapse View from Space | Fly Over | Nasa, ISS from Michael König. [If you're reading in a reader or by email, you may need to click through to see the video.] Is your family studying geography, meteorology, or astronomy right now? This video by NASA would be an incredible addition to [...]
George Washington said: "A primary object should be the education of our youth in the science of government. In a republic, what species of knowledge can be equally important? And what duty more pressing…than communicating it to those who are to be the future guardians of the liberties of the country?" Our children need to [...]
Right now Amazon.com has dozens of G.A. Henty historical novels available FREE for Kindle. Just look for the Kindle books marked for $0.00 and download them to your Kindle! If you don't have a Kindle, you can download a free Kindle reader app for your PC or Mac. To help you figure out how to [...]
With all the talk in the news about immigration issues, now would be an excellent time to teach your kids about what it means to be a citizen of the United States and how an immigrant can become a citizen. The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services website has a concise guide explaining what it takes [...]
Sheppard Software, a site we use frequently for geography, now has a U.S. Government game. Each game starts with some basic facts on each topic, and then you have to match up the right information. It's not an in-depth look at U.S. government, but it's a fun introduction. As you can see in the image above, [...]
Memory tricks have always helped me when it comes to remembering both random and not-so-random facts. My kids have picked up on this, and they've come up with several of their own memory tricks to remember the US postal abbreviations. Not all these memory tricks will work for everyone, but maybe they will give you [...]
I've mentioned before that I love geography. Not only are maps fun (for me at least), but they're also ideal for teaching and understanding history. And the map below is no different. It illustrates 5,000 years of the history of religion in 90 seconds. Since Joely has been reading about Islam in The Story of the World, we [...]
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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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