Free Homeschooling Resources to Help Parents Raise Lifelong Learners
Many new homeschooling moms stress out about teaching their kindergartener. What curriculum should I use? How many hours a day should we do school? How in the world do I teach my child to read? Some how-to-homeschool books will try to offer you definitive answers to those questions. But then, to your chagrin, other books [...]
Welcome to my Build Your Own Homeschool Library series where I'm sharing with my readers some of my favorite books from my homeschool shelf. Please note that all the posts in this series contain my own opinions, and I have not been compensated by any publishing company for any of the content. Overview Although not written [...]
I enjoy homeschooling my children. I love teaching them, reading to them, seeing the lighbulbs go off in their heads when they finally "get" something. I even love planning lessons (that's the OCD in me). But I have a confession to make. There's one aspect of homeschooling at which I fail miserably. Checking schoolwork. Now [...]
As most homeschoolers do, when we first began homeschooling we adopted a typical public-school calendar, including a two-week Christmas break, a one-week spring break, and a three-month summer break. We kept this public-school calendar for our first three years. But homeschooling during December always ended up being such a chore with our busy schedule, and [...]
One of the most important decisions a family has to make when they first decide to homeschool is what curriculum to buy; but the plethora of choices available can be overwhelming. Where should I start looking? What will work best for our family? When we started homeschooling in 2005, I read dozens of curriculum reviews [...]
I'm planning to include Rosetta Stone Spanish in our curriculum beginning next year, and my girls have been very excited about the prospect. But Jaden has seemed less than enthusiastic about learning Spanish, so today I asked him what language he would like to study. And his response? Latin. He chose Latin! (Actually a very [...]
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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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