Homeschool and Educational Resources to Help Parents Raise Lifelong Learners
Baking bread is a skill many think is old-fashioned. Why spend so much time and energy to bake bread when you can just buy a loaf of tasteless, preservative-laden bread for less than a dollar at the store? (Yes, sarcasm completely intended.) That time-and-energy argument is quite valid, which is why in the past I [...]
This month we ordered more free things from Amazon.com. We paid for our order with Amazon.com gift cards, all of which we earned with Swagbucks. In the past, we've mostly ordered books for school, but this time we opted to order goodies for the kitchen. Here's this months' order: Cooking, by James Peterson Artisan Bread [...]
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 [...]
Almost a year ago one of my favorite food bloggers, Lynn, showed me her recipe for peanut butter baked oatmeal. I'd tried plain baked oatmeal before and hadn't liked it that much, but this peanut butter version sounded as if it had some potential. I made the recipe, liked it, but thought there was still [...]
I've mentioned before how my schedule often makes cooking dinner difficult. Teaching piano three days a week from 3 to 6 and then having evening activities several other days make cooking dinner a challenge. I know of course that if I planned ahead — made crock pot meals for instance — having a cooked meal [...]
Science has always fascinated me, and the science of food is no exception. That's why two of my favorite cookbooks are Alton Brown's I'm Just Here for the Food (about cooking) and I'm Just Here for More Food (about baking). His books aren't just cookbooks though; they're chock full of great information about the 'how' and [...]
Not only are these the best-tasting chocolate chocolate chip cookies you'll ever taste, they're the easiest to make too. Since these cookies are baked using a store-bought cake mix, it might be a stretch to say these cookies are actually made from scratch, but they're most definitely not store-bought. Either way, this cake mix cookie [...]
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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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